Am oot

sorry should have updated, sooner.  They let me out on Day 5 when it was clear I was feeling a lot better and could self medicae with paracetamol and laxatives at home.

I need to follow up some outpatient tests and also do some lifestyle changes...losing weight..arrghh and eat more bran, and smaller more frequent meals with some pro biotics

Thing is this can happen again at any time...regardless of changes... so...fuck

I have a condition, its managable but it won't go away.

getting old sucks

Ahthankyew

On the mend or dead

day 5, still in hospital and since not much happens in hospital on Sundays it might be tomorrow before they decide if I can go home, or if they want to do a dreaded colonoscopy before letting me out.

Either way I am feeling a lot better, the pain has greatly subsided and I am more myself again. 
Since the danger of the infection causing any significant damage has passed, I'm pretty sure I'll be home again soon with some quite important changes to my lifestyle and diet and a few outpatient visits.

This may be a recurring thing, if I don't take better care of myself, diverticules don't just dissappear after an infection and can get reinfected for all kinds of reasons, but being obese and not having a sensible regular diet are issues. 

I eat very well and good fresh food, thanks to Jirawan, but I eat far too much and need to regulate intake and increase my fibre and start taking more probiotics to avoid future issues. I also have to cut back a bit on my rum tipples...oh well, once a week is ok.

There may also be a few trigger foods we need to check and cut them out. But I think more than all my other complaints about having to diet, this incident is the one that will kick me into it. I NEVER want to experience pain like that again and if losing weight and exercise is going to prevent it I have my motivation.

oh well, bored now, want to go home, but have to just look out the window at a very cold and rainy Breda which has had  a heatwave for the last few days while I was stuck here in my air conditioned room with Jirawan staying to keep me company.. There are worse ways to spend time with the one you love.

Ahthankyew

Normal service has been disrupted

Im in hospital....I had some issues over the weekend where my bowels basically shut down, and by Monday I was in some degree of discomfort, and by Tuesday I wasn't farting with confidence, in fact I wasn't farting at all,...0 flatulance, life and games can't exist without flatulance.

Anyway, comedy aside I had some issues resulting in some astonishing levels of discomfort and pain and after a strong telling off from Jirawan I called the doctor who made a same day appointment, and said exactly the same as Jirawan when examining me... Not normal... My bowels that is, the rest of me is prime.

She sent me directly to hospital, not passing go,  where they did some more tests and it was decided to keep me in.

This is all a bit worrying and considering the number of surgeons who were poking and proding me it was clear they were prepping for something, but after a CT scan it was decided that there's no cancer/tumours or signs of obstruction which would need emergency surgery. 

There's an infection in my bowls almost certainly caused by diverticulitis, an unpleasent complaint which in itself isn't life threatening but can have knock on implications.

So they are keeping me in for a few days to monitor the infection, and make sure it does not get worse which might mean surgical intervention, also to do a few more tests to check things that are not obvious on scans. A colonsopy is on the cards soon...that will be fun.

Im ok in myself, yesterday was rough getting prodded and stabbed and having things down my trhoat and up my ass, but the pain levels have dropped due to IV painkillers (surprisingly only paracetamol but effective) but they won't feed me in case surgery is needed. I didn't sleep well with various iv alarms going off like a snooze button so am tired, but in much less pain.
So if nothing else Im going to lose a few Kilos while here, which isn't a bad thing.

Ahthankyew