Hospital stay

Just as things were getting better, getting off the MTX and planning a few days away in a nice hotel, I end up in hospital with pneumonia! Is there no end to the tripwires someone has put in my path!

Mrs O and Flip Dover already know of this, as we've been in touch outside the forum.

It hit me without warning. I'd had a very busy week with a couple of hospital appointments, art class and family get together the weekend before, but I went to bed Thursday evening feeling fine. Woke in the night feeling ill. My GP came the next afternoon and called the ambulance. By then I was feverish, very low blood pressure etc, but no symptoms of a chest infection.

I was admitted to hospital with a CRP of about 130, temperature of 40°, high lactate score etc etc.

I spent a week there while they brought the infection under control. Of course, my immune system being so compromised, my body needed all the help it could get to fight the infection.

I came home Friday evening (today being Monday) and have only been out of bed to go to the bathroom so far. I have another week on a double dose of antibiotics.

I've no idea whether this had been simmering in my body or whether it just happened within a few hours.

On a slightly different matter, a nodule was discovered on my lung a while ago when I had a PET scan. My Rheumy told me it was nothing to worry about, but when I questioned it again at my last visit, she said she would talk to her colleagues about it. In today's post, I've received an appointment for a detailed scan mid September.

I don't think it picked up on the x rays I had in hospital.

So, I'm lounging in bed at the moment, sleeping a lot and getting plenty of reading in!

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