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I'll be 55 this August... I've had bronchiectasis for ten years plus this year... End stage lung disease for the past year...been on oxygen for three years... and have I got used to it yet?... nah! I am now waiting for the biggie; a double lung and maybe a heart transplant. I love my life weirdly enough, because I have some wonderful family and friends who are with me every step of the way on my adventures, even though I embarrass them on a daily basis with my unorthodox way of looking at life. Not for the faint hearted!

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

I want to sleep!

Midnight turned into 1am and then 2am, swiftly followed by 3am and finally at 4am I gave up and made myself another cup of chamomile tea, a slice of toast and just sat and read my book till 4.45am before finally drifting off to sleep and staying asleep until 7am.
But at 3am I was punching pillows and laying there wide awake trying to work out why I couldn't sleep yet again.
So I did a check list in my head; headache tick, feeling nauseous pretty much all the time tick, a horrible metallic taste in my mouth which makes all food taste the same... tick. A touch of thrush.. damn it tick. Put them all together and add on the inability to sleep and you have a light bulb moment and the answer of course is antibiotics. Been on them often enough, so I know the pattern by now and the last couple of days have always guaranteed me a few bad nights sleep.
Oh God no, another light bulb moment... I shouldn't have had my oxygen assessment if on antibiotics. Bugger no wonder I got a good reading as it wasn't a true one. So this is why I stayed awake till 4.45am worrying about the fact I could jeopardise things by being stupid.
How could I have forgotten that I couldn't have the assessment done because of the course of antibiotics that the specialist put me on.
Helen, Vera and Lisa will kill me!
Actually they took it very well first thing this morning and looks like I will be having another assessment again soon. Probably this time Vera will take a run at me with the scalpel!

Lots of love Debbie x

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