Saturday, 28/12 - noon - I'm home :)
So what? Everybody is.
Few words of explanation...
At the beginning of December I was feeling a considerable fatigue, which wouldn't go away. Even taking it for a walk didn't help.
Then next step came - I started feeling out of breath.
As a result, I didn't sleep the night before Christmas Eve because I had to strain really hard with every breath.
I called "Nurse-on-Call" and she told me to contact my family doctor immediately (there was always an ambulance in the back-up, but I preferred to check simpler options).
The doctor saw me in half an hour, listened to my lungs, categorically recommended not to move from the chair and called an ambulance.
Before the ambulance arrived I managed to call my wife to prepare a bag with the necessary things for me.
The ambulance was kind enough to pull up to our house (300m away) and let me go home to say goodbye to my wife and collect my things. However, they definitely did not want to drive our car home.
In the hospital they performed number of tests and decided to keep me for few days in the cardiology department.In this situation, the family spent Christmas Eve without me, but they joined me and we sang few carols together.
In the cardiology department it was like this...
I got a single room, I noticed that more than half of the rooms were empty.
Diagnosis - water in the lungs, cause - heart failure.
Action - tablets to drink water, limit fluid consumption to 1.5 liters a day - for me this is rather normal, although recently I may have been drinking a bit more.
If this works, they will let me go home with a recommendation to see a cardiologist, whom they will inform about my case.
It worked - I got rid of a lot of water, which somehow insidiously gathered in me - although I noticed that my feet were swelling, I thought I would check it out after the holidays. I did not realize that at the same time I was gaining a lot of weight - now in two days I have lost 5.5 kg and I am back to normal
Here is a recommendation - weigh yourself every day and write down the result.
I am attaching a few hospital photos...
Nutrition - the portions were tiny, but it was enough for me.
Below - yesterday's dinner...
It was quite tasty, although the vegetables were a bit overcooked and of course everything was not very salty (but the goulash was seasoned quite well).
A portion of medicine - I took the pink ones regularly, the black ones were a multivitamin, they added the white ones - for dehydration.
On the Christmas Day I was visited by children and grandchildren, they even brought me a Christmas cracker...
I was probably most moving around patient, I discovered a small asylum in the open air.
Unfortunately the air was not very nourishing, probably there was an air conditioning outlet nearby. Temperatures were variable - the first day of Christmas - 33C, the second - 36C, Friday - 18C.
There was a bookshelf..
But I brought some reading material with me - an exceptionally well-chosen reading material - entering the profession of a medical specialist in Australia. Maybe it was this reading that brought out the wolf from the forest?
Saturday, around 11, my wife picked me up from the hospital and we went to the supermarket to buy some fruit - I can now walk without getting out of breath.
I thank all the readers of this blog for your concern and kind words.
I wish you... good HEALTH - for the whole New Year.
