It's been a busy few weeks since my last post, with a fair share of ups and downs. We drove up to Newport Pagnell for our granddaughter's christening on 3rd March and spent a delightful day with family and friends, that was a definite up. Shame it was followed by a down the very next day; we spent 5 hours on the helpline ward in Cheltenham with me having blood & urine tested, and a chest x-ray and ecg. Came home with vast amounts of antibiotics to nobble the chest infection, and spent most of the week in jamas recovering.
In spite of residual cough felt heaps better by Saturday and decided I was ready for a solo expedition. My first since illness struck in Dec 2010. So I tootled off to the Co-op on the mobility scooter and bought flowers for my ace missus. A great sense of achievement! Sunday was good too; an afternoon spent in friendly company at a craft and social session organised to celebrate International Women's Day. So a whole big weekend of UP. Followed by another down - feeling really wobbly on Monday, with return of sore mouth and throat. Thought I'd seriously overdone things at the weekend and hoped I'd feel better on Tuesday. Felt worse, so phoned hospital and had to go in and get checked again, this time at the Edward Jenner Unit in Gloucester. Turns out the fur coat I've acquired on my tongue (and all down my throat and over soft palate) is oral thrush caused by heavy duty antibiotics ......
So I spent four hours on a drip having extra fluid, potassium and calcium and then came home with two kinds of anti-fungal treatment and some more potassium stuff to fizz in water and drink. Yum!
Perhaps strangely the other UP of the last couple of weeks has been getting a firm date for my retirement. My last official day of employment is 31st March, so from 1st April I will be officially retired. It feels positive.
