Well what a week it has been in Tauranga Hospital❤️💜
I have Pulmonary Embolism's. They are small and have made their way through my heart and been pumped into the small viens right at the bottom of my lungs. Which was extremely fortunate, because if they were any bigger we would have had a life threatening situation (Still now at risk of some of the larger ones breaking off, heading for my heart & lungs) 🤕
I have an extensive cluster of clots in my groin/thigh, the main one is the size of a small golf ball and around that one are both medium and small ones.
I have clots on the top, inside and back of my thigh, a couple in behind my knees and a couple in my calf muscle. 😷
I am on a double dose per day of blood thinners for the next two weeks and then i drop down to one dose per day for 6 months. They will then reassess the situation. There is a huge probability that I will be on them for life as this clotting is, like I mentioned above, very extensive. 😓
My medication schedule was refined a few times over the course of this week. I started on a pill form of blood thinners and then had to have some injections of a different blood thinner into either side of my stomach to get it to the clots faster than the pills were in order to starve the clots and stop them from moving anywhere else within my body and now back to some tablets called rivaroxaban. 💊
Once the blood thinner medication schedule was well refined, they then had to find a pain management plan with the most optimal ways to keep the pain at bay enough not to be in constant agony. They had to make sure I was "stable" enough to look at being able to discharge me. My home medication schedule was now sorted and I got discharged,
So here I am one week to the day finally at home 🤗💖 and I must say that it felt like a month or more in there with all the tests and treatments I had to do and try out.
The team I had which was made up of 4 different types of specialists were absolutely fantastic. They consolted with the "Head of House" (the hospitals main specialist team) and one of the best and the Top Haematologist in in NZ from the Waikato Hospital (DHB).
They had given me the best possible care they collectively could and to ensure they were doing everything they possibly could to make aure I was safe at all times and to also make sure I would be safe if I was to go home.
I have direct contact to them via phone & ambulance if there are any slight changes at all to ensure I could be seen and if all is fine be cleared to go home. Saves going through all the hassle of going back through via ambulance to the emergency department (They are super busy all the time).
Thank you for taking the time to read this update, I will be adding more photos to my gallery and have been doing this frequently so please look out for any and all photo updates in the gallery.
I want to once again say a huge thank you to all the beautiful people who have taken money out of your income and donated to my many needs.
I know how expensive life and living costs are!! And to me this is huge no matter the size of the donation!!!
All of them are such a huge blessing and it warms my heart so much that you care enough to go ahead and do that.
My first purchase is a purple and black wheelchair that fits me and doesn't dig into my sides and legs, has a cushioned seat and is easy to push myself along. I'm so thankful to you all!
To anyone reading this and following my journey that are thinking of donating I really appreciate you!!! Your donations all add up and gets me closer to having what I need so our one wage can go on our living costs,and everything else we need to cover on top of it all.
Much love beautiful people 😍💞💖
