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@Cherishingsparrows2020 the Doctor made the point a few times that it was incredibly mild.

looking forward to starting to feel again! it's been a long two weeks and now i know why it didn't feel like I was actually recovering

@MaryMamuzich @tanjaostman sorry...I should have refrained from acronyms! i often forget just how diverse a group of people there are I'm honoured to call friends, brothers and sisters!

@Cherishingsparrows2020 @MaryMamuzich @tanjaostman it was a little odd, and I cam certainly compare this against my last hospital visit - 3 years ago.

the first thing you see are 2 entrances - Covid or Non-Covid, but you're treated as Covid, regardless

plus, I was on my own the whole time, while Jo simply had to sit in the waiting area. i'd have been glad of the company, especially when having the canula fitted (really dislike that part)

certainly looked a little tired everywhere, but the staff were professional, and you can't expect more than that!

@MaryMamuzich @tanjaostman thanks Mary

Just seen the odd autocorrect - "crafty" should have read "x-ray"

@Pablito none of the above

Plenty of blood was taken and tested and I came out as really healthy... Except for the mild infection

@MaryMamuzich @tanjaostman I hope it will

So dehydrated right now! I'd kept my fluids great until half a day in a hospital! On my second point of fluids since coming home 30 minutes ago

@tanjaostman I've got another 5 days of antibiotics which they hope should help clear up that infection

@tanjaostman A & E = Accident & Emergency. It's the trauma care unit of the NHS. A place you'd go in an ambulance (or walk in, as I did today) Lots of doctors aand nurses, and plenty of equipment.

I wasn't quite in the most serious part, .but I wasn't in the main A&E ward either...

When I arrived there was one other person waiting to be seen. When I left my bed was already being cleaned and made ready....Praise God we arrived in a quiet moment!

I had a chest x-ray, which showed some cloudy streaks - which matched up to the blood they took and tested - indicating a mild infection. One of infection markers was ever so slightly elevated (I don't really know that means)

I had frequent oxygen monitoring (all good) an ECG (I think - what ever is called it was the machine with lots of wires and cables that tracked the electrical signals from my heart

Lots of observation too

Lovely doctor

Discharged and going home. Thanks for your prayers, love and concern... Nearly home. On antibiotics for a week and have to go back in 6 weeks for a repeat crafty

Very sore wrist from the cannula

@Olamide @tanjaostman @MaryMamuzich @Cherishingsparrows2020

Jo's taking me to A and E.

I stifled a yawn, and now my heart is doing a weird but gentle beating thing...hoped it'd settle down but it hasnt.

This sucks!

@tanjaostman @MaryMamuzich @Cherishingsparrows2020

@KarlGessler I've checked through my symptoms and they don't fit that at this time, to the best of my understanding....gonna keep hoping and monitoring it

@KarlGessler ok

We're starting to see something of an end...very weak still, but the boys are mostly better, or at least dramatically improving

Jo and I still have a cough, although mine is worse than Jo's. Managed to have it absent all day until I ate a piece of chicken and managed to breathe a little bit of it...took me 2 hours to come back to a regular breathing pattern again after that... so frustrating as I'd worked really hard all day on that!

@MaryMamuzich @TakeN he's making up for the lost meals, which I find super encouraging

@Cherishingsparrows2020 to weak to do anything...walking to the kitchen for a drink takes it out of me

@Cherishingsparrows2020 no problem with resting... Don't want to do anything else!

Covid update

Thankyou to those who have been praying and/or sending messages supporting us since last weekend! I will try to find a way of explaining just how important those messages have been, when Im able to

My wife of 25 years - today - made me take a self test, which showed I am testing negative for active virus. Which is good. Because any damage is already done, and it can't make me any worse.

We're aware this is good news, but not the end of this story. We still have a cough, feel generally very rough, and weak.

And Complications can still happen. But a negative test is certainly an encouraging step towards health

But thanks for your prayers thus far. They're still needed.

Andy, Jo, Steven, Nathan and Peter - The BerryBunch

@tanjaostman beautiful words and tune. We enjoy Kim walker Smith a lot. Thanks for sharing