Well eventually I had no choice but to visit my doctor, I was feeling so ill and could only manage to eat my food after liquidising it. That was the final straw that made me go as I love my food!
I explained all my symptons,he did a few tests, and took some blood,which he sent off to the hospital.I came home from work 2 days later and there was a message on my answer machine from my doctor asking me to contact him immediately. All my life I have enjoyed good health and never visited the doctors,so the urgency of the message put me in a panic.
I rang the doctor and he asked to call in the surgery straight away. On arriving he told me the results of my blood test had shown a high PSA reading,and creatine and that he had made an appointment for me at the hospital for the following day.
I didn't sleep that night laying awake worrying about what was wrong with me.My girlfriend said I told you months ago to go to the doctors!
The next morning my girlfriend and I went to the Churcill Hospital,Oxford. It was September 2007 and I was to stay in the hospital on and off for the next 5 weeks!
This was my first visit to a hospital for an illness of my own so I was nervous and agitated. I had been visiting other people,or taking them to hospital over the years and even then I had a fear of hospitals.I used to feel faint if someone even talked about what treatment they had been given!
The lady doctor talked through my blood test results and symptons with my girlfriend and me,she said that she wanted me to be admitted to hospital immediately. She said she wanted me to have an ultra scan on my kidneys as my blood test showed I was suffering renal failure and I was retaining urine in my bladder,this was why I felt so ill and had ammonia on my breath.
Off I went for the ultra scan, the results showed my bladder was retaining about a litre of urine even after a pee.
We went back to see the lady doctor and she said due to the fact I was not emptying my bladder she wanted to fit me with a catheter ! (panic! as I said earlier I felt faint even talking about other peoples treatments) Well I did faint! the next thing I was aware of was the doctor and my girlfriend saying are you all right and feeling far away. My girlfriend said she thought I was dying as she had never seen anyone faint before and that it was frightning as I had gone white as a sheet,my eyes were rolling, and my tongue had gone back in my mouth. With that description of how I looked I would have probably frightned myself looking in a mirror!
Well the catheter was eventually fitted successfully and off I went to the ward at the Churchill hospital Oxford. ( The catheters were to remain fittted for about the next 3 months).
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