SDEC and WARD

 It's Wednesday, I've been sat in A&E since 4pm yesterday. 

Luckily it wasn't busy overnight but still, I couldn't sleep, how could I, I was in a chair in a waiting room.

I spent the night talking to a lovely gentleman called Derek, he was waiting for a bed too, but they hadn't even started him on treatment, we keep each other company throughout the night just chatting away the hours.

Derek's wife turns up with a bacon sandwich for Derek and like an angel has made 1 for me aswel, I know it's only a bacon sandwich but wow, what a kind thing to do, apparently she had told the Wife the night before she would bring one but I was completely oblivious to that.

My Wife turns up after the school run, she's obviously tired but she's bought me some bits and pieces, she's a goodun.

The A&E doctors call me in, they want to send me home with some antihistamines for my allergies and a follow up appointment with my doctor, however, I'm top of the list for a bed so it needs signing off by a senior doctor.

Sat in the waiting room and a nurse comes over with some meds, tells me a porter will be there shortly, with a chair to take me to SDEC (Same Day Emergency Care)

No sooner have I entered the SDEC the doctor calls me straight in, as we are walking he's looking at me and doesn't seem particularly happy, he's looked at my notes, he has experience in Rheumatology and disagrees with the A&E doctor.

My blood tests show my Liver Function Count is up (it should be 50 or below and mine was 611)

He tells me I'm going to need to stay for a few days, I'm transferred into a treatment room and given a dose of IV Steroids and more tests, I have a fever so they hook up a bottle of paracetamol and practically drain it straight into me.

I spend a few hours in a treatment room, luckily as they are not busy they allow my wife to stay with me until she has to go and pick the kids up.

Not long after that a porter arrives and I am admitted and transferred to a ward.

On the way to the ward we pass through the Ambulance Entrance and through the A&E treatment area, the corridors are rammed with patients on beds.

It's a scary to me that I'm now in hospital for I don't know how long but I get to the ward and climb into bed for some well needed sleep, I am shattered.