New Year, New...Wheeze?
Current prednisolone dose: 40mg (boooo)
New year weight: 329.2lbs (oops!)
So 2018 is finally over! I'm not going to lie, its a year I'm pretty glad to see the back of, with 13 admissions to hospital with severe or life threatening asthma attacks and who knows how many further trips to A&E and the GP with it!
It was a pretty difficult year mentally because of this, aside from just coping with the admissions themselves I was pretty low functioning in between them so became quite isolated (although my friends and family were all absolutely amazing in making sure they kept me involved in things!), I gained a lot of weight (between low activity levels, high doses of steroids and eating away my feelings I didn't have much hope there!) and had to suspend my studies because of the amount of time I was spending in hospital.
Having said that, now that I finally feel like I'm starting to come out the other side I think its made me a much stronger person (every cloud and all that...). I've coped with stresses I never would have thought possible and while I feel awful for the amount of stress I've caused them I'm much closer to all my friends and family - although I think between us we might be keeping the hair dye industry afloat!
I've also now returned to my studies and managed to get through my first placement with only one admission to hospital (which doesn't sound brilliant but it sounds like a lot of staff at the university didn't think I would manage it!) and I feel like this experience will make me a much better and more empathetic doctor in the future. There's nothing quite like an 8 hour wait for discharge or having 6 ABGs done in the same wrist to make you appreciate patient frustrations!!
So, here's to 2019 being a better year for everyone! I've had a couple of A&E trips recently with the joys of winter chest infections (what a lovely Christmas present!) but still haven't spent a night in hospital since mid November - so things are looking good!
New year weight: 329.2lbs (oops!)
So 2018 is finally over! I'm not going to lie, its a year I'm pretty glad to see the back of, with 13 admissions to hospital with severe or life threatening asthma attacks and who knows how many further trips to A&E and the GP with it!
It was a pretty difficult year mentally because of this, aside from just coping with the admissions themselves I was pretty low functioning in between them so became quite isolated (although my friends and family were all absolutely amazing in making sure they kept me involved in things!), I gained a lot of weight (between low activity levels, high doses of steroids and eating away my feelings I didn't have much hope there!) and had to suspend my studies because of the amount of time I was spending in hospital.
Having said that, now that I finally feel like I'm starting to come out the other side I think its made me a much stronger person (every cloud and all that...). I've coped with stresses I never would have thought possible and while I feel awful for the amount of stress I've caused them I'm much closer to all my friends and family - although I think between us we might be keeping the hair dye industry afloat!
I've also now returned to my studies and managed to get through my first placement with only one admission to hospital (which doesn't sound brilliant but it sounds like a lot of staff at the university didn't think I would manage it!) and I feel like this experience will make me a much better and more empathetic doctor in the future. There's nothing quite like an 8 hour wait for discharge or having 6 ABGs done in the same wrist to make you appreciate patient frustrations!!
So, here's to 2019 being a better year for everyone! I've had a couple of A&E trips recently with the joys of winter chest infections (what a lovely Christmas present!) but still haven't spent a night in hospital since mid November - so things are looking good!
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