After a night of no sleep, Steve managed one more dose today. He had the 6th Dose at 10am this morning, he looked exhausted, swollen and very uncomfortable before he had even started.
The side effects came regular as clock work at the 2 hour mark and they stayed for the next 6 hours...
As bad as the temperature, shakes, sore joints and itchiness are, the worst is the feeling that your whole body is giving up on you. It is a form of sleep depravation coupled with extreme flu like symptoms and this is proper flu not the man flu kind!!
Steve has no energy and cant sleep and sleep is what he so desperately wants. But every time he tries his mind has now decided to play tricks on him! Apparently he has just drowned and Ive had my face cut off by a jet ski! Ouch!!
I keep reminding Steve that it will pass like it did last time but when your feeling as he does then you cant see through it.
Time and Sleep is going to be what will help him get through this and luckily we asked the Doctor for an extra strong sleeping tablet, which he was happy to prescribe for tonight, also it looks like Steves medication for his blood pressure will be stopping tonight, so it means his checks will be only 4 hours, so coupled with this and the bad boy sleeping tablet I think there is every chance Steve will sleep!
Steve hopes to be out tomorrow but if not then it will be Sunday. I will update the blog, as soon as Steve is given the go ahead and our carriage courtesy of Ginge has arrived to whisk us back to Chobham.
Much love to all.
Dont really know what to say to you both other than we are thinking of you. It seems such a horrible thing to go through but stay focused (dont doubt for a minute that you're not!!), stay positive and well done Sally for tracking down the help to check out Steve's shoulder!!! You can do this!
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