Friday 16th

From the moment I woke up on Friday morning I was having trouble breathing, I had an awful pain going through my right lung, my whole chest felt tight, I couldn't speak whole sentences as I was too breathless and my secretions were too thick to bring up which meant clearing my chest was impossible. I had an x-ray done and it showed that my entire right lung was blocked with thick mucus, my inflammation markers had risen from 70's to 170, I was having high temperatures of 38.2, I felt awful. Every movement I made, every position I tried to get myself into felt so uncomfortable it was really frustrating.

Later in the afternoon the dr came around and said she was very worried about me and that I have been growing another bug aswell as the one I already grow and that she was putting me on some very powerful drugs to try and combat this infection as well as she could. She wrote me up for more antibiotics - both oral and IV, some more nebulisers to help to thin and losen the mucus, some fluids to rehydrate me and she told me that I may come to the point where I am needing to use my breas 24 hours a day from now on as I am very poorly. I asked if I was going to die and she said she didn't think so but she couldn't say for sure as she really didn't know. I know I shouldn't have asked because it really didn't make me feel better but I just thought I'd like to know.

Things didn't improve much through-out the day but the physios wrote me up for a strict schedule to help clear all the thick stuff plugging my chest - my day goes like this..

9.00 am - dnase nebuliser
9.45 am - salbutamol nebuliser
10.00 am - physio
11.00 am - antibiotic nebuliser
11.30 am - 1.00 pm rest on breas (not forgetting all the other medication i am on)
1.15 pm - salbutamol nebuliser
1.30 pm - physio
2.30 pm - 3.00 - rest on breas
3.15 pm - dnase nebuliser
4.00 pm - physio
4.30 - evening - rest on breas.