High temperature

Wednesday night after being at the hospital, I started to get a headache. By the morning my head ache was worse and I had a temperature. At about 7am the temp was 38.9 and I was burning up and then i was sick.

Charito opened the window for me and fanning me to cool down. I knew I would have to ring the hospital and tell them, as anything over 38 Im supposed to call.

I didn't want to call until 9am though. If I called earlier I would have had to go into A&E and then go through all of the problems I had last time and up in AMU where they are not used to dealing with cancer patients.

I managed to suffer till 9am and called my usual ward where, as I thought, they asked me to come

So I packed my things ready for a stay in hospital.

I arrived and they put me on one of beds where i could rest.  I had my phone turned off and didn't know that Charito had been try to call me. She panicked a bit and my daughter to see if she could call in to the hospital to make sure I was ok.

After a number of test they decided to send me home with some antibiotics, ratherthan keep me in. Amy turned up just as I was leaving and i had already managed to let Charito know what was going on.

I had to come back to the hospital today for more test and I've just been told they are keeping me in.

I will keep you all updated later as writing this on my phone is quite difficult.

My Life with Myeloma http://mylifewithmyeloma.blogspot.com Sean Tiernan

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Stuck in hospital.

I came into hospital yesterday for my velcade but ended up being admitted. As usual i have to be different, i have come out in spots over my face and body that look like chicken pox. Now the question is, can you have chicken pox and shingles at the same time!

There seems to be a debate going on as to if that is possible and swabs  have been taken along with various bloods and sent over to Manchester. I have had a person from infectios diseases come and see me who has spoken to another specialist who says it isn't. So i will just have to wait and see what the results come back and show in the next few days.

In the meantime i have been admitted into a side ward with a big yellow sign telling people i am diseased! Im  having anti virul and antibiotics administered via drip.

I will probably be in till next wed but could be out earlier.

I already have a few stories to tell about being on the ward overnight, but i will write about those later once i can get to a proper computer to type on rather than my phone.

Back in hospital again

As some of you are aware, after coming out of hospital on Sat afternoon, I had to go back in on Sat night because I had a high temperature.

Its been a rough few days and not had much sleep. I have an infection so they are pumping me with Antibiotics. They are going to up the dose today as my temperature is still high. I am on an isolation ward in a room of my own, so I dont catch anything else.