And when you were actually having the chemotherapy, those three days, did you actually have to stay in the bed or could you get up and walk around?
No I was mobile, I could walk about. What happens there in the hospital bed, nobody has ever done, you go in and they get all ready, all geared up and they put the stands at the side of your bed, lift on the bags for all the stuff you're going to get and it's put into your drip and that's you mobile. And you walk about, if you go to the toilet, I just walked about the ward with that, and in my hospital they were very good, I could walk out into the kitchen, make a cup of tea, cup of coffee whatever I wanted. I walked back into the bed, walk up to the lounge to watch the TV, so I was mobile, I wasn't athletic or anything but I was, I wasn't back prone on my bed I was mobile.
And what was it like actually being in hospital those three days?
It was very pleasant, it was very pleasant, everyone is so nice, so attentive, so kind, and they really spoil you, you know they're all over you, really. You miss the comforts of your own home and your own family that's an understatement but when you're actually in hospital there's so much going on, everything is going, you've no time to think. And you can discuss things with other patients and discuss things with nurses and the doctors and everybody is so attentive. |
