Thinking of you Liz!

[john]

hi liz (and john),
the board seems to be very quiet lately without your input!
i guess we all hope you are happy in the hospital, and are responding to those IV antibiotics.
get well soon, and you're not alone, at least out here in cyberspace!!
best wishes - john

[crocker]

Get well soon Liz hope you feeling better

[barbfrombc]

Sending you many cyber((((((((((((((hugs))))))))) for healing.

Barb

[mali42]

Liz i'm Sending you healing thoughts and hope your well on the mend and you get out of hospital soon.

[prickles]

Hi Liz

Hope you are on the road to recovery.

Sue

[john]

hi,
i just got an email from liz's husband john with news of her. i thought we should all share it....

Hi, John
I've been keeping an eye on the Forum posts for Liz while she's in hospital and updating her on the messages I've seen there. She asked me to drop you this note and I leave it up to you whether you decide to post it or not.
In the early stages of the week, her temperature was far from stable and way above its normal level of 36.5. At one point it was 39+! They had her on oxygen for a while and started her on the IV antibiotics. She's still got one helluva cough, bringing up truckloads of filth in the process and today said her Chest Physician had told her they didn't seem to be hitting the infection as hard as they'd hoped. Physician and Liz get on superbly as neither of them suffer fools. I think she secretly hoped they might let her come home for the weekend, provided she stayed in bed, but that was not to be. While I was with her, we went outside for a very short walk as it was such a lovely early Spring day. The house just isn't the same without her but I know that if she had come back for Saturday and Sunday, I'd have had hell's own delight in keeping her off her laptop and catching up on UKPIPS matters!!!
Although I'm not signed up to the forum, I watch it daily and if there are messages there which I think might interest her, I make a scribbled note. I mentioned to her today the lady (?) who had had such trouble getting a doctor's appointment - and she nearly got out of bed with fury to come home and try to sort it out. But bless her, that's the sort of person she is. Heaven help that medical practice if Liz ever gets to find out who and where it is, 'cos she'll be in there and sorting them out, whether she's got an appointment or not!!!!!!
But thanks to everyone on the forum who sent messages to her. I've relayed them all and she was so appreciative of the kind things people have said.
Cheers, John Mac

get well soon liz!
take care - john

[mali42]

Both Johns, Thanks for the update,
I was wondering how Liz was doing,
so once again hope the anties kick in soon and Liz is back here.
Best wishes Malcolm.

[susand]

It's been 5 days since this John's letter was posted so I hope by now that you are feeling a lot better and that, hopefully you are home - or at least coming close to it.
You have certainly had to appy the tincture of time with this stubborn bug.

Take care
Susand

[liz2mac]

Hi all,
wow, thenk you SO much for all your support! It was amazing to read all of your posts. So here's the update. A week ago Friday I was feeling so much better that I hoped to be discharged on the Monday. My body had other ideas. On Sat night into Sunday morning I woke up into the headache from hell, nearest I can say is it felt like it did when I had meningitis! Fear kicked in pretty quick. Anyway, long story short, had a lumber puncture on Monday and eneded up on morphine for two days. Woke up on Wednesday and the headache had just gone. Lumber puncture showed all clear and we basically don't know what on earth caused it. So I came home on Thursday, was with my Immunologist yesterday and am beginning to pick up the threads today. So, thank you all once again, its lovely to be back with you.
Liz

[crocker]

Glad to her your feeling better Liz

[liziJ]

Liz, I'm so relieved you're feeling better now. Will catch up with you when you've had a chance to catch up with all the most important things first!

Lizi x

[mali42]

Hi Liz
I'm glad your back with us after your ordeal and your on the mend.
Malcolm

[gilliem]

Take care, Liz. I always assume I'm' betterer' than I really am. and try to do too much too soon. Glad to know you're improving.
Best wishes,
Gillie

[liz2mac]

Thank you all so much, you have no idead how lovely it is to have all of your support. Am really trying to do "stuff" in the mornings and rest in the afternoons. Going to be watching the racing at 4pm today, my Godson is riding at Cheltenham!!!
Best wishes and thanks to you all.
Liz