Admission

Today is my seventh day after admission and I can feel the antibiotics are starting to work on all the mucous that has been building up in my chest.

There comes a time for me when it doesn't matter how much physiotherapy I do or how much I am coughing out, it seems to get thicker and stickier and continues to build up. At last it is thinning and shifting. I have felt for the last month or so that I am not at my best and have been incredibly tired every day. My mom and dad see my morning face when I look like I am battling to wake up and it is because I haven't been able to sleep very well. We have had so many power failures in our area this last month which has also contributed to my not feeling so great . We have a generator but it is too noisy to run at night and the inverter power supply my dad has connected is fine to run my nebulizer but not strong enough to run my oxygen machine. The oxygen machine pulls more power than a kettle does so those nights I sleep without oxygen. I am so determined that nothing will get me down that I have been really pushing myself, so coming to hospital is for me like going away on holiday. The NiQi that everyone sees and knows takes a lot of effort some days...lol

Wednesday, one of my back molars broke so I had to go to the dentistry department. What a good thing I was already in hospital. After the initial examination and x-rays, I was told to come back the next day, because they said I would need extensive dental work to get this wisdom that is badly impacting my teeth out, and to repair the damage from a tooth that's had a hole in it for about a year.



Thursday morning I went back to the dentist and after many hours of sitting waiting landed up having the tooth that broke plus the wisdom tooth pulled out with local anaesthetic as my doctor said I cannot have a general anaesthetic at this stage!!!!

I will admit having 2 teeth yanked out in one day is not the most amusing thing to do. And now, 3 days later, my mouth is finally starting to feel normal again. For the past few days, my jaw and mouth has been swollen. I have had constant headaches from the blunt force that they used. And the all the pain meds have made me super sleepy.

Pheew what a couple of days. Anyways I just wanted to update you now and will try show you more of my mischievous face later.