A Rough Night Followed by A&E

 Well, last night was rough as toast, fever, retching, restlessness, sweats, shivering. 

Woke the entire house up with my retching (I'm a very noisy spewer)

Messaged my boss, told him I won't be in cos I'm in absolute clip.

Managed to get up and take the kids to school, but it wasn't easy and when I got home I just curled up on the sofa and went back to sleep until I'm woken by the wife and taken up to bed where I just sleep and shiver and sweat.

About half 3 in the Afternoon, Mum and Youngest sister come round and between them 2 and my wife they convince me that I need to go to A&E and get seen to, I'm stubborn but even I realise sometimes that you can't just ride something out so off we go.

At A&E I tell them I think I am having a reaction to medication. 

A&E send me to UTC (Urgent Treatment Centre) they check me out, I do a urine sample and they send me back across to A&E

In A&E I have bloods taken, an ECG and I see a doctor who although is listening to me saying it's a drug reaction doesn't seem 100% convinced, I am, I saw the list of possible reactions on the medication leaflet.

They say they are going to admit me but there is currently a 30 hour wait for a bed, they start me on medication and IV fluids and I spend the night in the A&E waiting room, in a chair, with a drip in my arm.









My Wife stays with me until 2am, but we have children she needs to sort out and a her brothers partner to send home.

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