Nikki's hospital birthday weekend!
21 October 2021
Well, it was Nikki's birthday on Sunday. It didn't quite go as one might hope a birthday would go - it started on Friday really, when she was very ill but pushed herself to manage a doctors appointment, which took a huge toll on her and meant no sleep that night
Saturday she was bedridden until 4pm until pushing hard to make a family get together for her birthday - she spent most of that time there in bed too though got to say hi and open some pressies!
11pm that night things took a turn for the worse. After being up all night vomiting and immense pain no sleep, Nikki was taken to ashburton hospital at 6a.m.
At 10a.m she was transfered to Christchurch women's hospital via ambulance. It took another three hours to get a ward bed as they're so full then another five amd a half more hours to be seen by the gynae doctor. Long day!
Nikki had an overnight stay and was seen by the gynae team the next morning. The staff and drs were all so wonderful..not the way you want to spend your birthday but with her usual sense of humor Nikki says really when you think about it, I had a multi destination chauffeur driven, on call staffed, meal given, intermittent fasting dietary provided, all expenses surprise stay in an inner city motel for my birthday ...what more could you want? (The fasting bit refers to the fact she wasn't allowed to eat all day in case of surgery)
The gynae team agree she needs surgery and are unsure why this was not followed up on, they are looking into this but said realistically with the pressure the hospitals are under, it could be an indeterminate wait to ever get in and that even just last week her entire surgery schedule was cancelled due to the hospital being full
Nikki is grateful for the kindness of all staff and paramedics who made it an ok birthday despite being in hospital. Nikki is now home and resting