How to lose two and a half stone in two months

[badabec]

Hello, after being told an ambulance could take six hours to arrive, my neighbour to me to A&E where I declared I was having a suspected heart attack. That got me past the riff raff with paper cuts etc. One ECG later, not a heart attack but severe pancreatitis. My gall bladder was removed after 10 days, discharged on day 14.
Back to A&E next day feeling worse. A CT scan revealed I now had severe necrotising pancreatitis. Ambulance transfer to UCLH to have a stent fitted between the main area of necrosis and my stomach, all done via my food pipe, amazing.
Back to my hospital, 500ml pus removed from in front of liver using ultrasound to locate and a syringe to suck it out. Discharged later that week with appointments made to have blood tests daily at the hospital.
Went for the blood test, doctor sucked through his teeth and told me I wasn't going anywhere except back to a ward.
Finally discharged 2nd December. October and November are a blur.
I entered hospital end of September weighing 14 and a half stone. I left weighing 12 stone. Paradoxically, the correct weight for my height! But no muscles left.

Things you must take if you stay in hospital.
Quies wax ear plugs (constant beeping, yelling, doors banging, etc)
An eye mask (nurses love turning on lights at 4am to do blood pressure checks etc)
A bottle of squash
Your favourite breakfast cereal
Slippers (the toilets always have a puddle in front of the WC)
Watch the Singing Detective on your phone, the hospital scenes are so true.

 

[Keith 66]

Blimey, thats a hard way to lose weight. 15 years ago i was in hospital for an infected bursitis of the knee following kneeling on an old nail. Emergency knee op & 5 days of IV antibiotics later they let me out.
Ear plugs are a necessity! in my case they put me next to a great big fat bloke who was in for a knee replacement as were two others. They put pneumatic collars on their lower legs that slow pulse to keep the blood flowing, they do this all night long, squeezing & sucking noisily. Add to this the fat bloke resembled a human version of a middle white pig & snored like one but louder.
I dreamed of the scene in the Good the bad & the ugly where Lee Van cleef visits the old man in his bed & puts a pillow over his face before firing his pistol through it several times!
Earplugs & headphones saved me from a similar crime!

 

[Bobtail4x4]

look after yourself

 

[Pete.]

Look on the bright side - you can tear up that New Year's resolution

Heck f a trial but at least you're on the road to recovery

 

[addjunkie]

Hello, after being told an ambulance could take six hours to arrive, my neighbour to me to A&E where I declared I was having a suspected heart attack. That got me past the riff raff with paper cuts etc. One ECG later, not a heart attack but severe pancreatitis. My gall bladder was removed after 10 days, discharged on day 14.
Back to A&E next day feeling worse. A CT scan revealed I now had severe necrotising pancreatitis. Ambulance transfer to UCLH to have a stent fitted between the main area of necrosis and my stomach, all done via my food pipe, amazing.
Back to my hospital, 500ml pus removed from in front of liver using ultrasound to locate and a syringe to suck it out. Discharged later that week with appointments made to have blood tests daily at the hospital.
Went for the blood test, doctor sucked through his teeth and told me I wasn't going anywhere except back to a ward.
Finally discharged 2nd December. October and November are a blur.
I entered hospital end of September weighing 14 and a half stone. I left weighing 12 stone. Paradoxically, the correct weight for my height! But no muscles left.

Things you must take if you stay in hospital.
Quies wax ear plugs (constant beeping, yelling, doors banging, etc)
An eye mask (nurses love turning on lights at 4am to do blood pressure checks etc)
A bottle of squash
Your favourite breakfast cereal
Slippers (the toilets always have a puddle in front of the WC)
Watch the Singing Detective on your phone, the hospital scenes are so true.

You went in, and came out alive, the weight loss is a bonus.

On serious note follow their advice. They do generally know what there talking about.

 

[roofman]

That's one hell of a time you have had fella

 

[Morris]

Ruddy 'ell, that's a rough couple of months. Take care, hope the future brings better times.

 

[stuvy]

There’s easier ways to lose weight

Hope your all on the mend now

 

[Turbo]

Been through similar with my Dad.
Over the past year he's had kidney stones that took 3 visits to A&E before he got a decent doctor who sent him straight to the operating theater to get them removed. He also has COPD & has regular chest infections, multiple calls with the GP, was in hospital for a week with pneumonia (spent the 1st 3 days on a trolley in A&E because there were no beds).
Had his flu jab before xmas & has been going downhill since. Couldn't get through to GP today so he went in to make an appointment at the surgery. Was told off for not calling but when they saw how ill he was he got a face to face appt this afternoon!
Got told he has a chest infection, got antibiotics & steroids, also told his oxygen sats were in the 80's & he might have to go back into hospital!
Listening to him coughing at the minute I fully expect a run to A&E in the next few days!

My Uncle caught shingles when he was in his 80's & lost 3 stone in a few months. He said it was a good way to lose weight but he wouldn't recommend it!

 

[Morrisman]

I spent a week in hospital in Jakarta 20 years ago, with a severe upper respiratory tract infection, medivacced off a ship.
By day 3 I was crawling out the door in the middle of the night heading to anywhere but the hospital..... just to get away from the continual noise, interruptions, wake ups, blood pressure readings, doctors visits at 2 am etc..... It was murderous, they have no concept of sleep over there.

Why on gods green earth would doctors visit at 3 am to take blood pressures of everybody in the ward???

 

[Turbo]

Why on gods green earth would doctors visit at 3 am to take blood pressures of everybody in the ward???

To get a reading when you are 'relaxed'!!

My dad said he was better looked after in A&E than the ward - my cousins partner is a nurse in there & my best mate from school is the head A&E consultant so between them they looked out for him.

 

[badabec]

To add to the saga, my sudden weight loss in the first week brought on gout in both knees and ankles. I also picked up pneumonia along the way.
Towards the end I walked up and down the corridor for exercise, I was overtaking the nurses etc. They certainly weren't in any rush!