… just half a dozen times today, each time just to visit the bathroom.
The reason why this virus is atypical is because it’s one that they have never seen before and don’t recognise.
That’s probably because I picked it up in Canada.
As a result I’m confined to my room and not allowed to mix with the other patients because they don’t want this spreading around the hospital and then the rest of Europe, which I understand.
In fact they had me locked in my bed by raising the bedrails and during the night I had to call them to lift me out. Sometimes they either took an age or didn’t even come at all and that let to a rather embarrassing and humiliating incident on one occasion.
Finally during the night I went to try to squeeze out of the gap at the end but my tubes were tangled up in the rails and I ended up pulling the pipes out. This led to something of an argument. They wanted me to use a bedpan but I flatly refused. In the end they let me go to the bathroom.
One of the nurses then put a catheter in my arm and coupled me up but my arm swelled up like a balloon She’d missed the vein and the stuff was just going into my arm. Another nurse put a catheter in the back of my hand and that seems to work.
With all of the excitement during the night, you’ll be surprised to learn that I’d taken a sleeping pill but that didn’t work at all. I’m coughing far too much and too loudly to sleep so I watched the clock go round and round.
However my little stand-off worked and they took down the railings so that I can leave my bed whenever I like.
The day was much quieter. The nurses washed me, changed my clothes and bedding and did all kinds of nurse things such as taking my temperature (it’s 38.8° right now), my blood pressure and my oxygen content.
As well as giving me pills, tablets, oxygen and so on.
A couple of doctors came to see me too. They examined me and one of them admitted that my condition is serious.
As for food I managed half a plate of pasta and salad and a couple of sandwiches so it seems that my appetite is slowly returning.
So tonight I have another sleeping pill and I hope that it works this time as apparently I’ll be having a busy day tomorrow when the specialists are back at work.
And I’m curious to see how things pan out.
