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Life for the past few weeks has been pretty hectic and also pretty sucky. There have been a few bright spots like going to see the Avengers with David and finally getting tickets for Qi (I still have 2 if anyone's interested) but on the most part, it's been pretty awful.
Dad has been feeling fairly low the last few months, nothing major, just tired all the time and headachy among other things including getting some pretty bad leg cramps. Finally persuaded him to go to the doctors 2 weeks ago where they thought he was possibly low on potassium or something so they did some blood tests.
He had the tests at the surgery on Thursday morning. Friday afternoon I get a phone call from the doctor to say that his test results have come back and they need to see him urgently. Get him up there for 5pm and by 5.30 we're sitting in A&E. Turns out his hemoglobin level had dropped from just over 13 in February to just under 9. At the hospital he was given an emergency transfusion to get the levels back up and had a shit-load of tests done which, to the surprise of everyone involved, all came back normal so they sent us home and we got back about 1 Saturday morning.
An urgent appointment was made for the colorectal clinic at the hospital (as some of you may know, we almost lost him about 8 years ago due to complications caused by diverticulitis) where he had his colostomy done. The appointment was yesterday and the news isn't exactly encouraging. He had another load of blood tests done which we're waiting for the results for and he has to have a full chest, abdomen and pelvic CT scan to try and determine what's going on. The doctor I spoke to yesterday says one of the possibilities is that he has a small bleed internally somewhere. The other main possibility is that it's bowel cancer. There are other things that can cause low hemoglobin levels but they're the 2 most serious ones.
My Dad is 83 and not in the best of health to start with so these are not good options to be dealing with. Not that they would be good options for anybody, but you know I mean.
I've been losing myself in knitting and reading Avengers fanfic (I may have a thing for Tony Stark/Steve Rogers...) in an attempt to take my mind of it but I'm actually worried sick and am barely sleeping, which isn't helped by the fact that the cats seem to enjoy either playing with live mice on my bed while I'm actually asleep or presenting my with headless ones when I wake up!
Anyway, that's why I haven't been around much lately. I know it sounds awful and bitchy and incredibly selfish but, as much as I love you guys, I just haven't felt able to concentrate on anything but getting myself through this. I honestly don't have the mental or physical energy right now to cope with other people. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I honestly can't.
Dad has been feeling fairly low the last few months, nothing major, just tired all the time and headachy among other things including getting some pretty bad leg cramps. Finally persuaded him to go to the doctors 2 weeks ago where they thought he was possibly low on potassium or something so they did some blood tests.
He had the tests at the surgery on Thursday morning. Friday afternoon I get a phone call from the doctor to say that his test results have come back and they need to see him urgently. Get him up there for 5pm and by 5.30 we're sitting in A&E. Turns out his hemoglobin level had dropped from just over 13 in February to just under 9. At the hospital he was given an emergency transfusion to get the levels back up and had a shit-load of tests done which, to the surprise of everyone involved, all came back normal so they sent us home and we got back about 1 Saturday morning.
An urgent appointment was made for the colorectal clinic at the hospital (as some of you may know, we almost lost him about 8 years ago due to complications caused by diverticulitis) where he had his colostomy done. The appointment was yesterday and the news isn't exactly encouraging. He had another load of blood tests done which we're waiting for the results for and he has to have a full chest, abdomen and pelvic CT scan to try and determine what's going on. The doctor I spoke to yesterday says one of the possibilities is that he has a small bleed internally somewhere. The other main possibility is that it's bowel cancer. There are other things that can cause low hemoglobin levels but they're the 2 most serious ones.
My Dad is 83 and not in the best of health to start with so these are not good options to be dealing with. Not that they would be good options for anybody, but you know I mean.
I've been losing myself in knitting and reading Avengers fanfic (I may have a thing for Tony Stark/Steve Rogers...) in an attempt to take my mind of it but I'm actually worried sick and am barely sleeping, which isn't helped by the fact that the cats seem to enjoy either playing with live mice on my bed while I'm actually asleep or presenting my with headless ones when I wake up!
Anyway, that's why I haven't been around much lately. I know it sounds awful and bitchy and incredibly selfish but, as much as I love you guys, I just haven't felt able to concentrate on anything but getting myself through this. I honestly don't have the mental or physical energy right now to cope with other people. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I honestly can't.