We didn't get Christmas this year, yes there was the 25th December
but no Christmas dinner for us, no lazy day stretched out in front of a cozy
fire, drink in one hand remote in the other.
Lets back up two
days to Thursday. The GP called to say that Hubby had yet another UTI a nasty
little bug this time called Klebsiella and the only treatment hospital strength
anti-biotic. She very kindly scratched her head to find us a solution where he
could get treatment at home rather than in hospital. The district nurses would
come and give him an injection in his rear in association with Lidocaine for
the next five days. Okay we said we are up for that. So on Thursday they came
and gave said injection. We had a terrible time during the night if our nights
are not bad enough already Hubby's legs were so stiff I was having extreme
difficulties dealing with his spasms which I normally sort by straightening his
legs to relieve. So in the morning we rang the doc and because he was screaming
out in pain she sent an ambulance. Bit of a waste of time as we can not travel
in an emergency ambulance. After much arm twisting we head to A&E in our
own car.
The joys of our
new hospital in Peterborough, unusually I got a parking space in the extremely
dangerous for wheelchair users disabled car park, everyone must have decided
xmas eve was not the day to be sat in a hospital. Well we sat in various parts
of A&E for over 6 hours until they decided that our GP was right and Hubby
needed to be admitted so that he could get IV antibiotics.
The found us a
single occupancy room, barrier nursing had to be enforced, in the Cardiac unit.
What a nightmare for me trying to get him settled in unfamiliar surroundings
and on top of that it was bowel day so I had to persuade the staff that as it
was now 7pm it was urgent that I get him seen to, before anything else that
they might deem to be important. I am a bit of a pain in the neck for staff I
know but I have to be forceful or else Hubby suffers from their ignorance of
his SCI condition. Got Hubby settled in bed after doing the business then we
realised that he could not maintain his body temperature having got really cold
earlier in A&E, the room was way too cold for him to safely recover,
especially in the nude as he sleeps with minimum covers because of his spasms.
So up we get him again in his wheelchair wrap him up in his blankets, get the
nurse to give him his antibiotics and start negotiations as to our best course
of action.
No additional
heating was available, so we told them for Hubby's general well being he would
need to go home where it is warm. So a plan was hatched, we were to return 3
times a day over the next few days to get his IV and then return home where I
can better manage all his other medical problems. So on xmas day we returned to
the hospital just after 8am, then again at 2pm and 8pm.
CHRISTMAS WAS
CANCELLED FOR US.
Boxing Day same
routine again....
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