'tis the season...or so they say
Dec. 29th, 2012 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaSomeone gave me a really bad cold for Christmas. It was generous of them, I'm sure, but not much appreciated. My eyes won't stop watering - I look like I'm crying all the time!
It also means that I can't visit my Aunty Lel in hospital, since the last thing she needs is more germs. She's been in intensive care for two weeks now, and isn't getting any better. She has some kind of e-coli infection which is affecting her lungs and kidneys, causing acute respiratory distress syndrome. She's been intubated for over a week, under sedation, but remained aware enough to be increasingly agitated about the tube, so yesterday they operated to perform a tracheostomy, hoping that it will be less distressing and enable them to lower the sedation while weaning her off the ventilator. She is very, very poorly. I wish I could go and see her again, but I daren't take this cold into intensive care.
Aunty Marj's funeral is next Friday. Festive season, huh.
It also means that I can't visit my Aunty Lel in hospital, since the last thing she needs is more germs. She's been in intensive care for two weeks now, and isn't getting any better. She has some kind of e-coli infection which is affecting her lungs and kidneys, causing acute respiratory distress syndrome. She's been intubated for over a week, under sedation, but remained aware enough to be increasingly agitated about the tube, so yesterday they operated to perform a tracheostomy, hoping that it will be less distressing and enable them to lower the sedation while weaning her off the ventilator. She is very, very poorly. I wish I could go and see her again, but I daren't take this cold into intensive care.
Aunty Marj's funeral is next Friday. Festive season, huh.
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Re: hello there new friend.
Date: 2012-12-29 03:07 pm (UTC)I know, right! At least the cold didn't hit until after Christmas itself - thank heaven I don't go back to work till Wednesday, that's all I can say.
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