The big meds problem.

So far its been an uphill struggle!!!

After my op i had to stay in over night to make sure i was okay, and was promised i would be released the next day! the nurses were lovely, they would come round every few hours and take my temperature, blood prettier, pulse and blood sugar to make sure my blood sugar hadn’t got to high or to low

on top of that i was taking tablets paracetamols (which they gave to me in dissoluble in water form as i couldn’t eat anything at the time only water, this was very painful, if you have a gastric sleeve you will not be able to have fizzy ever again! so when they give you paracetamol in water that once dissolved looks like tonic water it really doesn’t go down well!!! for this reason i was given anti-sickness injections in my butt ( was not happy the first to the 6th time i had them) to stop me from throwing up the tonic water substance that i had to drank.
The next day came and i was waiting to be discharged but after waiting till the afternoon which then the nurses left it to late to discharge me as the pharmacy had closed which meant i couldn’t go home with the meds i needed to help me get better. so yet another night in hospital, at this point i was not happy as i had my heart set on going home, i was in a lot of discomfort as i wanted to be in my own comet of my home and relax!! The nurses promised me the next day for sure!!!! (2morrow being Sunday  :s)

The next morning arrived and i washed and packed ready to leave. my parents rang the wing and asked whether i was going to be released 2day or not as it seamed silly to drive 2 hours to London to come all the way bk again! the nurse assured that the meds were ready i was just had to wait to be seen by a doctor to be discharged. about 7.30 -8ish i rang my parents saying that I’ve just seen the doctor and he is discharging me (dancing in weak joy of going home)
I was packed and ready to go, i could walk but not to far as it got me tired really quickly, well at this time i had been on water for 3 days and nothing else! Anyway it was Sunday, so the pharmacy was only open from 10.30-1 so i really wanted my meds so i didn’t have to wait any longer in hospital, according to my parents my meds were waiting for me so there was nothing to worry about.
there was me and my gastric sleeve friend, and a boy next door called Alex being discharged so we were all waiting for our meds so we could leave. Every half an hour a nurse would go down to the pharmacy to see if they were ready which they weren’t. My parents started to get very pissed and we went to the complain as we were all still waiting for our meds. Another nurse was sent down and came bk with Lesleys (my gastric sleeve buddy) and Alex’s but mine apparently wasn’t there :( very annoying considering they should of had them yesterday but apparently ran out of time to put them together so i could go home. The nurse rang up asking what was going on ( by this time it was 12.35 and was very worried, i had put my foot down, i was not staying another night. Also by this time they had moved me from my bed, and was sitting in the waiting room so they could get the bed ready for the next person. so there was no way i could even stay another night. anyways the nurse rang up and asked while we all waiting in front of her, she replied with its on the system why have you not got it. they then assured they would do it before they left for the day. At 12.50 a nurse went down coming bk a few mins later (cutting it a bit short) with my meds and like the other 2 who were discharged once we had the meds we where gone. after saying thanks to the nurses and wishing them all merry Christmas we were on our way home in no time!!!

I found the who experience very scary, it felt like they didn’t overly know what was going on, everyone was guessing. There was not just once nurse that was the leader and know what each person was doing in each bay and what they needed, even on the notes it seamed like they were guessing. so i was glad to finally be home with my family :)
That evening when it came to having my injection we noticed that other than the injections everything else that was given to me was in tablet form :/ which started another massive problem! i could early drink water, there was no chance i could swallow any tablets and some of these were massive! so here is were we began a new big uphill struggle to find the meds that i could actually take.