Wednesday, 19 March 2014

ICU (a second time)

I was good  for the rest of February and had a great day on March 1 at the Rimrock Hotel.  I received the Alberta Family Physician of the Year Award early in the morning (all of my family were there for the presentation which was very special) and all of us then went on to  the Banff Springs for brunch.
Then I woke up at home the morning of March 2 feeling very unwell and had a seizure, followed by one more at Sundre Hospital and two more as Stars was landing at FH.  I ended up in ICU intubated.  I also started the first higher dose of temozolomine while in ICU - so was not sure if I was feeling bad from the seizures, the temozolomine or from the anti-epileptic medication.  I was discharged home Friday, March 7.  So I have been with constipation (from temozolomine), diarrhea (from Keppra), a lot of fatigue, some weakness, continuing nausea and no appetite as well as poor speech and word finding.
I have appointments at TBCC Thursday and Friday of this week and I hope medication changes will deal with most of the problems!
I will be in touch once I am feeling better.
Hal