It was Thursday the 8th that I went in and had to stay in the hospital overnight before it all kicked off the next day. I got in the hospital gown, got a catheter and morphine and fell asleep. some 3 hours in I awoke in the middle (as planned) so I could take a series of tests to make sure that nothing was going wrong. It was things such as disciple this picture, finish the sentence and things like that. It was also very uncomfortable, dead legs, sore arm, cramp, and the notion that I had a guy digging in my head.
I got out and returned to my hospital bed, not feeling to bad except for a headache, but painkillers were helping. Sleep was tough though, with the catheter and cannula and very uncomfortable bed. The next 5 days in the hospital were awful, the headache got much worse, become unbearable after a few days, and getting to sleep due o the quality of the bed, plus of course, it's very boring, not aided by the fact that I could barely read, it took about 10 minutes to read a paragraph. Finally, on Wednesday the 14th, with the worst headache I've ever had, I got to leave and go to my mothers.
The headache got worse, and I spent the next 24 hours with terrible pain and throwing up constantly, so I went to A&E. I got a bunch of scans and had to go back to a room for the night. At that time, I also started to not understand things. I could really speak as I couldn't understand anything people were saying nor what I was saying. This would go on for 4 days, and was awful as I couldn't really do anything because I couldn't understand anything. I also had to spend the majority of the next day in the hospital waiting for the pharmacy to drop me some steroids and anti sickness tablets, it's not very efficient. After that I went back to my mothers house.
The steroids weren't great either. They did calm down my sickness and headache but I basically couldn't sleep for more than 3 hours the whole week I was on them, I was tired all the time but just couldn't sleep. I spent the whole of the next week sitting on my arse as I had no energy (this wasn't as fun as it sounds) and with the difficulty in talking/ thinking/ reading and headache it was awful. The headache has calmed down massively now, I still have a slight one, but it's not head splitting anymore. I can also think and talk again now thankfully although I do still have trouble reading and find it hard to concentrate on anything.
I went off the steroids on Friday, so am still concerned with the fact the problems could come back up, but only time will tell. Finally, today, I have been allowed back to my own flat. I now have to relax for 4 weeks, and just hopes everything goes well. If there's spelling issues in here or if some of it makes no sense, that's the reading issues.
