Hospital!!!

Well people, I have managed to avoid being admitted to hospital for nearly 36 years but unfortunately, last night, that great record was broken!!

We went for a lovely meal at our friends Nick & Alison. Nick cooked up a storming hot Thai Red Curry. Very nice!!!

Before I carry on Nick, I hold you in no way responsible for this!!! I think it was going to happen anyway and the chilli kick accelerated it!!!

So at about 10.30PM, I start getting some mild stomach pains, by midnight and on arriving home I was in a fair amount of abdominal discomfort.

For the next 2 hours, things got progressively worse, I had a little diarrhoea and I was so uncomfortable with pain everywhere!!! Worse still, when terror attacks, my ongoing symptoms increase and my numb, cold and pins & needles affected hands turned themselves way beyond 10!!!

So at 2.30PM, I wake Kerris and within 15 minutes we are in here Mum and Dads car on the way to Southport A&E. On arrival, I checked in and promptly puked my guts all over the gents toilets. This kind of soothed me for a while but soon I was back to discomfort again.

My chest was tight too and they were worried that this could be heart related so I was wired up to a heart machine and had some blood taken.

As it transpired, my heart and bloods are all fine, as is my blood pressure (well for a man of my size anyway) and they administered a fair amount of Morphine to me and I sank into a lovely dazy coma for the next few hours.

Kerris needs a special mention, here is a woman who had a lovely night prior to being woken by me and performed magnificently even though she was probably fighting the effects of a little too much wine. In the brief periods between 3.30AM and 7.00AM where I came out of my coma, she was there to offer me a smile and some support. This woman just keeps getting better for me. I have so much admiration for you Kerris and I think you need to be reminded of that every now and then!!

Anyway, at 7.00AM I was moved to the Observation Ward and Kerris finally had a comfier chair and I slept some more until 9.00AM when the jolly consultant came round and, although I was still in some fair abdominal pain, gave me a clean bill of health and sent me home offering no insight into what happened!!!

So tomorrow AM, I am off to my GP and insisting on getting a camera shoved into my gullet to see whats going on. I had something similar a few months ago and it eased off before any mention of a hospital was made. So just in case something is brewing in there, I want to keep on top of it as I dont want a night like that again.

Over the course of the day, more sleep and feeling a lot more comfortable now. Medicine has no comparison to Liverpool slamming the Villa 5-0 though...game on!!!