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sandycee
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15 years ago

Finally Home

I want to start with a funny thing that tickled me. Last Saturday my partner rushed me to emergency where we sat all day long waiting for nurses, doctors, and more doctors to make up their minds over what was going on with me.

At the end of the day, it appeared I may have picked up an infection so I was re-admitted at around 5.30pm after having been there since 10.30am! Oh well, numerous needles, blood tests, urine tests and not much being said, I was transferred to "holding" where I was given some horrible dinner, then onto my new home for the next few days to a ward.

On the way  along I saw signs that read "neo-natal ward..." and "anti-natal ward" and "maternity" and "gynacology" and started to wonder if they were taking me to the right place! Yes, that's right ladies, I had a new bed smack bang in the middle of Maternity!

That really tickled me - only a week and a half ago I had lost my breast to breast cancer and now I was in a new ward that was introducing new life. Was there a message in there... I wonder.

Anyway, after five more days in Maternity something must have worked cos I am home now and feeling okay - not great - just okay.

Funny things happen when you least expect it though :)

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  • sandycee's avatar
    sandycee
    Member
    15 years ago

    I don't know about isolation Tonya, I was glad of a face next door to me. To be honest, there weren't any boobs - just the sound of crying new born babies and funnily enough, that bouyed me - new life coming into the world. So it was good.

    Heather, that must have been absolutely awful for you. I suppose we who go public don't get a chance to say where we would like to be. There is never any sense to where we end up. One wonders at their "system" they have in place, although my records could be traced in less than 10 minutes when I went to Emergency a few days after being 'released'.

    I am out of "jail" (Hospital) for now and having a super time, eating real food, petting my dogs, having my partner with me all day telling me how much he loves me and generally, learning to use my right arm again.

    Life can't get much better, considering what I've been through. I don't look forward to the future - only to being whole and healthy once more.

    God bless and keep us all safe and well for all our families and ourselves.

    Amen xxxx

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    hb
    Member
    15 years ago

    Glad you are back home, too! It sounds like you had a horror few days, there. I can empathise over your being placed in an odd ward -- two other mastectomy patients and myself went to the RAH's gastrointestinal ward for the duration. It was horrible, couldn't wait to get out of there. Hope things pick up for you now you're home. x Heather

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    TonyaM
    Member
    15 years ago

    That doesn't seem right.You might have been psychologically traumatized seeing all those boobs or vice versa.I think you should have been in isolation where I went.Must have been a bad bed shortage.Glad you are home.

                                 Tonya

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    TonyaM
    Member
    15 years ago

    That doesn't seem right.You might have been psychologically traumatized seeing all those boobs or vice versa.I think you should have been in isolation where I went.Must have been a bad bed shortage.Glad you are home.

                                 Tonya