Week 9 and 10 - Starting to repair
Week 9 and 10 still finds me in hospital, surprisingly! I came in for a nasal feeding tube, and if you;ve been keeping track, ended up fighting pneumonia. Joy!
My beautiful wife managed to get me extracted from the public system, and across to St. Vincent's Private Hospital. We are both still unsure how I ended up in the public system, but apparently due to me coming in via the emergency department on a Sunday, that was enough to tip me in. Thank you Claire for battling for a week to get me transferred.
At last I was in my own room, my own doctors, and fantastic care. I think I said it in the last post.... make sure you have private health insurance!
Week 9 was being treated heavily for pneumonia with IV antibiotics. In fact, everything was IV as I couldn't eat anything orally. Aside from the care, I was placed in a lovely room overlooking the city, watching balloons floating over the city most mornings. The nurses were wonderful, helping me recover and always being so kind.
Slowly, I began to feel better and by the end of week 10, or near enough to it, I'm finally going home, after nearly 4 weeks in hospital. I'm going home on Thursday 23rd February to continue recovery of my throat.
It's been such a hellish journey, that I've almost forgotten that the main game is defeating cancer, not pneumonia! I've had a few people ask have I beaten cancer ... too early yet. In another 2-3 months we will know more, but at the moment, it's time for my body to recover from the absolute beating it has received over the last 10 weeks.
I still have no send of smell or taste, but every now and then I get a whiff of something. Sometimes it matches the food, sometimes it doesn't. I'm told it will return in several months.
