I forgot my own advice. Thing one turned ill again on Wednesday night, definitely seems like early stages of the same illness. Did not go straight to hospital. He went to bed, in the morning I phoned the doctor, taking so long to get through I did the e-consult again. E-consult said to phone the GP, luckily I was still on hold there. GP said someone would call me back. Someone called me back in the afternoon and said he needs to be seen right away, uh, but not by us, phone 111 they'll be able to get you seen. 111 sent me round all the houses again but finally booked me an appointment at the walk-in centre. The walk-in centre phoned me back quite sharply to say "just take him to A&E"... I did this, and we sat and waited there for four or five hours before he was seen. He did not get the antibiotics he needed until midnight, so about thirty hours after we knew something was wrong, but to be fair only sixteen hours after I sought medical advice. By this time he started to be sick and was dehydrated again, so they admitted us, and we've been in hospital since then. They sent us home with antibiotics but they actually have booked the scan that they said they were going to book last time we were admitted. Next time I'm going to do it differently...
Not much else to report. We gave up on the food in there, Clare brought us in a big care package and we ate sausage rolls and salad pots. It's been boring but at least he is well again.
The next scan (actually an ultrasound) is booked for the same day as the Folkestone 10k that Clare and I are both booked on. If we can't do both she is quite keen to skip the race. Then we see a consultant a few days after that. We have prophylactic antibiotics to see us through to that point so he ideally will not get another infection in the meantime.
I have not walked anywhere in days, not done more than 1000 steps since Wednesday, so going for a walk now.
How are we doing for coronavirus cases?
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 31562060 | 571976 |
| Brazil | 13106058 | 337364 |
| Mexico | 2251705 | 204399 |
| India | 12799746 | 166208 |
| UK | 4364528 | 126882 |
| Italy | 3686685 | 111747 |
| Russia | 4597868 | 101106 |
| France | 4841308 | 97289 |
| Germany | 2912636 | 77862 |
| Spain | 3317948 | 75911 |
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + Mexico + India + UK + Italy
10k: Ten km, just over six miles to you. Sometimes talking about 10,000 steps though, an arbitrary daily step count target.
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Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent. Wed to Clare and dad to two, I'm a full stack web developr, and I do javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy stuff, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.