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Glad you are home now and I hope you have a lovely undisturbed sleep tonight lol

Hello Dormouse......good to see you are home and posting, but me thinks you should be resting. You take care now:o))

jude :o) x

Good to see you're on the mend now Dormouse, thought the cat had got you lol.

Take care and get some rest

love
Barb xx

*waves weakly at Shimms, Steve and Ann*

Just discovering that even typing is tiring!! Off to bed now due to severe lack of shut-eye.

The sweet looking lil ol' lady in the next bed to me on my last night in hospital was actually a fiend dressed up as a granny. During the night, she got up 9 times to go to the loo, clutching at my bed for support every time she went................. and every time she came back, making my bed shake. She muttered to herself throughout the night; had a little snack on something very very crunchy, at 1.30 am; spent 45 minutes during the night dragging her foot up and down the sheet, making the mattress squeak; called the nurse over at 4.30 am because she couldn't breathe (and no, that wasn't becasue I was holding a pillow over her face) and spent 15 minutes trying to adjust the headrest of her electronically controlled bed, so it went whirr, whirr, whirr, whirr until I could stand it no longer and had to stagger out of bed and say WHAT. ARE. YOU. TRYING. TO. DO? 'Oh hello, dear' says GrannyFiend, 'I can't get my bed to work.' So I took the controls out of her hands and, resisting the temptation to hit her over the head with it several times, I adjusted it to her satisfaction. Not long after that, she got out of bed to go to the loo again and then came back and decided her bed needed adjusting............................
It was a very long, very trying night.

Should add a final big thank you to my Guardian Angel, who Lord knows, puts in a heck of a lot of overtime...............................

Big hugs to everyone. DM x

Ho Dormouse so sorry you are not well at the moment, I have only just found out.
I wish for you, lots of twinkly fairy dust to gently surround you and magic away your pain.
Love to you.xx

Hello Dormouse,

I don't think we've met, but sorry you've had such a rough time and hope you have a nice rest now and wake up feeling refreshed and are soon feeling much better.

I spot of light birdwatching through the window sounds good for now!

Best wishes.

Ann x

So are you D, lovely in every meaning of the word :))

nite nite little sis, sleep well

You take care.

xxx big sis, Shimms xxx

Hi Dormouse,
So glad you're back home and on the mend.
That's quite a scare you've had.
Take it easy hun & I hope your back on your feet again soon.

I hope you're being spoilt rotten.

Steve
xx

I am taking it easy - I have no choice really!! Breathlessness is much reduced and the chest pain's subsiding a little more each day and I can now take a fairly deep breath before it starts to 'catch'. Feel utterly wrung out though. You don't get a lot of sleep in hospital, what with feeling grim and all the activity going on.

A little bird told me I ought to check out GR for messages before I toddled off back to bed......... And what a wonderful surprise I got.

Am going back to bed, now though, so bye for now.

You really are a lovely lot :)))

DM xx

Nice to see you back, Dormouse, and what a perfectly horrid time you have had! I'll bet the birds are glad to see you back as well:-) BC XX

Hello Dormouse

I don't think we have spoken before, but my goodness you sound like you've been through the mill !!!

I do hope that all the treatment makes for a rapid improvement for you.

Best wishes xxx

Hi Dormouse ..
lovely to see you post ..
and as Jen says youve been through the mill ..
so take it easy ...
Hazelx

hello Dormouse, so pleased you are home and hope you will soon be over this. It must be quite frightening. We miss you on the bird thread as I am sure your feathered friends have missed you too.

get well soon.

ann
Glos

n for Dormouse xxx

Dormouse How lovely to see you posting
(((((((hug ))))))))
Well little one you have been through the mill have'nt you
take it easy and Get your self fit

Jenxx
ps is that a trick question lol how many lives does a dormouse have
off to google

Yeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, my little sis is back!

Well ... perhaps a short visit.

Am so pleased you liked it D, truly I am, everyone here cares about you so much.

You take care now and rest up, you 'aint' going nowhere!

Luvsu

((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((such a gentle hug))))))))))))))))))))

xxx big sis Shimms xxx

Tis so good to hear your voice, Jackie and Daphne are asleep, Sandie isn't around at the moment yet they will all be so pleased too. xxx

Hello everyone,

I just don't know what to say - all these lovely messages..................

A big thank you to all who posted a comment. Shimmer, I luv you to bits for putting all the messages together for me and for keeping everyone up to date.

I did indeed develop a cluster of blood clots. I happen to have blood that clots if you take your eye off it for more than two seconds, so after a long history of DVTs and a pulmonary embolism some years back that nearly saw me off, it was decided that I should stay on a low maintenance dose of warfarin that would keep my blood too thin to clot. It is now clear that the maintenance dose wasn't high enough........................
Over the past couple of weeks I'd been feeling increasingly breathless. It's been a bit of a stressful time lately with the deaths of my uncle and a friend and I thought at first it might be my asthma playing up. But I decided it wasn't that so I went to my doctor last Wednesday morning, as an emergency patient. Was there two hours while they did a range of blood tests, an ECG etc. The ECG revealed something was up and my GP thought I may have had a silent heart attack.
Later that day, my GP rang to say that some of the test results were back and one of them was a worry so I had to go to hospital. She said to pack a bag and get there a.s.a.p. Well, I arrived at 6.45, was checked in, given another ECG and a diabetes test (negative) and then left until they could find a bed, which finally materialised at 1.30 am. Duty doc arrived at 4.30 am to examine me and say that they were pretty certain it was a clot lodged in my lung. I had a chest x-ray the next day to confirm that it wasn't a chest infection and then I was off to Nuclear Medicine for a 'lung perfusion' test, which revealed 'large mid and lower zone perfusion defects in both lung fields' ie a cluster of blood clots.
I've been given injections and high doses of warfain to disperse the clots and they let me come home yesterday afternoon on the strict understanding I don't 'do anything silly'. Have to say, anything other than breathing seems difficult at present; I am so tired.
Had to go to my GPs this morning for today's blood test and the lovely nurse was aghast that I'd had another clot. She told me I'm lucky to be alive. It would seem that the erratic ECG graph was because of small clots breaking away and causing problems. A bigger clot would simply have stopped my heart...................................
Does anyone know roughly how many lives a dormouse has? lol

Once again, a big thank you for all your lovely encouraging messages. They have cheered me up so much.

DM xxx

Hi D little sis,

Now ... I do hope you are resting, taking it easy ...

Check your emails too sweetie, there is something nice waiting for you there. :))

We miss you so much, truly we do.

Leaving lots of different books for Twitchers, enjoy sis.

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((big gentle hug)))))))))))))))))))))))))

xxx big sis, Shimms xxx

Oooooh, guess what?! Suzian's number thread has reached ... da da ... ONE THOUSAND PAGES!!! Isn't that brilliant!

Hi Dormouse
Home at last . Take it easy and get well soon
Jenxx

Hi Dormouse ,
i hope your safely tucked up in bed and resting
get well soon D take care
Hazelx