It is 2022!! Time to catch up with my life! Part Three
Wow, this is a long story to tell but I got a story to tell! From the last post, I was getting better reading on my vitals and I “escaped” the ICU…
Yes, my appetite came back and I had a lovely meals; breakfast, tea time, lunch, tea time and dinner. They say that hospital food was not really tasty, I disagree the ones I got and choose was really good. The only one that I didn’t like was the curry and it didn’t tasted that good so I didn’t ever ask for it again, but for the time I was in hospital, i really enjoyed all my meals and I even got to get acquainted the kitchen staff and I would received extra bits by asking. Like maybe an extra jello/pudding or for tea time extra cake!! The whole of the hospital worked very hard and most of them had covid themselves, but chose to return to work to help others. I was lucky and the whole hospital staff were amazing!!
While in the ACU ward and my vital improving, I saw many people who were in the same situation as I was but didn’t quite make it and moved to the ICU, as for some didn’t make it through. 2 people that I can’t forget, where one next to me, trying hard to breath but he just couldn’t be bothered and even family phone calls…. he was moved to ICU…the other was one diagonally across from the entrance, it was a member of staff father and I still can see her coming and trying to talk to him to keep on the CPAC mask on .. he would take it off and no matter what the staff did to keep him breathing, he would remove it and his daughter would cry – he was moved to ICU… I ask one of the nurses as to what happen both of them never made it out. The families were called to say their goodbyes. It was really heart wrenching and I swear to myself that I will get out of here and see my family. Especially my son, I haven’t’ seen for a few years. He is living in California and both were dealing with the Covid pandemic as best as they could too. I didn’t want to worry him.
The vitals were improving , appetite came back full force!! LOL! After a few days, the doctor announced that he was reducing my oxygen from a CPAC to 80% and see how we get on.. and he was pleased with my recovery and said whatever I was doing to keep doing it… so I did, I would turn over to my stomach every 20-30 min a day. It was not comfy but I did it, and also I had to be careful with all the wires too! I almost had that the machine fall on my head! But luckily one of the nurses saw it and said… be careful when moving as it was slipping every time I moved!
The next visit was they changed my CPAC to my oxygen mask to 80% and it was a better mask as I could take it off when I ate.
The tube color was green and the color emphasised the level of oxygen I was on. I was quite happy to get rid of the CPAC and continued doing my sleeping every 20-30 mins and all the nurses liked my vitals as it was improving dramatically. I was happy and took pics to send to my hubby as he couldn’t come visit me at all. We both keep in touch via phone text. I could only text for little bit, as I wanted to sleep and my eyes gets tired to quickly and felt weak to talk on the phone, so it was text and I would text him first that I was up and can talk. Hubby was keep abreast of my situation every night until my vitals signs were improving. I sent him a message the following day after the doctor came and visited me to let him know that I am ok and will be changing my oxygen from the CPAC to the regular oxygen of 80% … I know that he would be worried and won’t sleep!
