BEING HOSPITALISED FOR 2 WEEKS AND 1 DAY- CRAXY EXPERIENCE

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Basically after my 2nd cycle of chemo, I was wiped out. I was OK afterwards. In the middle of the night my temp was really high. I had to go to hospital. I was connected to IV paracetamol. I had to wait for a bed, as they were so busy. Then I was moved to this amazing room! It was so big, and it had mood lights, lamps, plenty of drawers to put stuff in etc. I was hooked onto fluids; since I was dehydrated. I was in a lot of pain. It's the most horrible feeling when your body is trying to fight the infection but it can't. 

I was told my White blood cells were low. I had to have 2 platelet transfusions. It was really cool how they just did it through my line! Then the skin on my hands and feet started peeling off, and my feet were all blistered/Red. It was so painful to walk. I was screaming in pain. Then the docs and nurses connected me to a drip with an anti fungal medicine to sort it out, but nothing worked until they gave me a cream called Hydromol. Then my feet/hands started to get better. After that, they gave me a PCA for morphine, so you press a button every time the button turns Green; you press it, and the morphine goes through my line that's connected to the PCA machine. The nurse had to put this octopus thing on my line, as I was connected to so many drips. 

Then I did so much drawing. It's so much fun! I also took my wig to the hospital to wear. I really love the colour of it! I had some help styling it from my auntie/male parental/female parental. I also had some new meds such as Gaverpentin and Fluconozol. Also, while in hospital I couldn't swallow most of the time so I had to tell the nurses to crush some of the meds like Acyclavere,  I had such bad headaches this time, It was like someone was putting fire in my brain. I had to wear sunglasses most of the time. I loved sitting in the dark like Batman in his Batcave. 

I was very sensitive to light and noise. I couldn't even watch anything until last week. I would like to watch Stranger Things Season 4 though. I do wear my normal glasses as well. The bubble baths were amazing in the hospital! I felt like Ariel from The Little Mermaid, while I was splashing around in the bath. I had some hot chocolate/loads of green teas with biscuits when I was better because they thought I had a mouth infection, as I had white spots on my tongue. My mouth was quite sore so I couldn't eat anything, I was so weak and hungry. I lost a lot of weight though! That's a good thing. I was given a cool inflatable matress to lie on, it was thick and felt so good on my back. 

I had to stay in hospital because my temp kept spiking up and down. They did observations everyday to check what was going on. I had to have a chest X-ray to find out where the infection was. It was all clear. The Lymphoma has shrunk in size, which is really amazing news! Then they did bloods everyday, and they did infection markers to figure our where the infection came from. After that, I got taken off the PCA for morphine, but I still had to stay on the fluid drip for ages. Most of the time I was sleeping like Aurora. I get tired easily these days. Most of time hospital was relaxing I just did a lot of drawing to calm myself down. 

I found out that one of my chemos called Vincristine causes nerve pain' so I couldn't move for a long time. It was a horrible feeling. I just wanted to get better, and go home.  Eventually, I was taken off my fluid drip. They just told me to drink as much as I could. Also, these Skandy Shakes are really great for you if you can't eat, they've got protein in them that makes you add on calories/makes you full. I also did this beads thing, where each bead represents a different type of treatment I've already had. 

That's all for now.

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