warrenpfo
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I had been feeling a rubbish since Sunday and being the tough sort did nothing about it until yesterday when I went to see the doc. After he told me to drink some fluids and be on my merry way I managed to pass out in the doctors hallway and the next thing I know I come round lying on the floor in utter cold and tingling all over.
Don't get me wrong I like feeling tingly but this was on a scale I have never felt before to the point where I had no control over my hands and they both went into the claw.
From this point on which was around 4 until 6:30 I am going on what I have been told as I don't remember much lapsing in and out of conscious but I managed to secure my first and hopefully last ride in an ambulance to the glorious destination of Wexham Park Hospital in slough
Apparently my temp was above 41 for some time and after stripping me plugging a cold drip of some form and using ice they managed to lower it and get me comfy again. After what we can only assume was a trainee nurse took some blood and managed to cover not only me but her, the bed, hallway and wall in it as I am quite fit at present and when I donated blood could fill a bag quite fast and so perhaps caught her by surprise.
Any who I was wheeled into my own bedroom at one this morning to be hooked up to what must be the noisiest machine that delivers fluid at what ever rate they tell it to and when you used to a nice duvet and absolute quite it takes some getting used to.
My hat goes off to the paramedics in the ambulance they where fantastic my wife says and we have there names in the hope we can send them something to say thanks if that's allowed.
Wexham has not been bad at all if not a little slow but they are packed at the moment so it's understandable and I don't want to sound ungrateful. Not an English nurse or doctor around which I found interesting and I was looked after by a lady from the Transkei which was great as she made me feel special.
I guess all this has taught me is that if you feel shit go and see the doc sooner rather than later and stop trying to be "the man" as even men fall sometimes.
Well it's not how I planned on spending my 34th birthday but maybe I might get a cake with a candle for breakfast.
Don't get me wrong I like feeling tingly but this was on a scale I have never felt before to the point where I had no control over my hands and they both went into the claw.
From this point on which was around 4 until 6:30 I am going on what I have been told as I don't remember much lapsing in and out of conscious but I managed to secure my first and hopefully last ride in an ambulance to the glorious destination of Wexham Park Hospital in slough
Apparently my temp was above 41 for some time and after stripping me plugging a cold drip of some form and using ice they managed to lower it and get me comfy again. After what we can only assume was a trainee nurse took some blood and managed to cover not only me but her, the bed, hallway and wall in it as I am quite fit at present and when I donated blood could fill a bag quite fast and so perhaps caught her by surprise.
Any who I was wheeled into my own bedroom at one this morning to be hooked up to what must be the noisiest machine that delivers fluid at what ever rate they tell it to and when you used to a nice duvet and absolute quite it takes some getting used to.
My hat goes off to the paramedics in the ambulance they where fantastic my wife says and we have there names in the hope we can send them something to say thanks if that's allowed.
Wexham has not been bad at all if not a little slow but they are packed at the moment so it's understandable and I don't want to sound ungrateful. Not an English nurse or doctor around which I found interesting and I was looked after by a lady from the Transkei which was great as she made me feel special.
I guess all this has taught me is that if you feel shit go and see the doc sooner rather than later and stop trying to be "the man" as even men fall sometimes.
Well it's not how I planned on spending my 34th birthday but maybe I might get a cake with a candle for breakfast.
If you can write about it you are obviously well enough!
