On the Road Again!

So. Monday and back to SDEC at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford Kent. Some of the bloods from Friday aren't back from the lab. The blood culture, where they add your blood to two bottles containing something, came back normal.  The indicator about my liver came back lower than Friday. The numbers mean nothing apart from Friday's 500 something is now Monday's 250. The same indicator was 173 in France and 153 two Fridays ago.... They let me go pending further tests including an ultrasound.  Once that's done it's high tail to SDEC. So we are no nearer to knowing what is happening and how to cure it. As a result we cancelled the trip to Norfolk this weekend.

A week ago we left the hospital and told to come back Tuesday.  On Monday, we got a call to say instead of Tuesday the appointment was changed to 9am at A&E Reception. Up early we arrived in good time. A bit of a walk around and we ended up in the "SDEC Hot Clinic". After three different blood takings and sitting about we were told we could go. The problem seems to circulate around some indicators in the blood and my liver.  I have akso been told to drop three of my nightly pill regime.  And now we move to next Monday and back to SDEC.

Following the advice of the doctor in France when we left the hospital in Calais, I tried the e-Consult service.  After typing in all the details it said I had to call them instead. As it was after hours on Thursday it meant calling Friday morning.  I got through and it was phone back time. Spoke to the doc twice between 1200 and about 1240. We were told to go to the Same Day Emergency Care at the William Harvey in Ashford.  Off we went.  Around five hours later we finally saw the doctor. They'd taken blood. I'd given urine.  Then I went down to get a chest x-ray. The doc looked at the French paperwork and there were some of the indicators that were too high, that two days later were still high. They've let me go and I am supposed to go back to SDEC on Friday morning at 9am. Let's see.