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    Maybe I should have titled my last message 'I'm not dead yet but I nearly was'.

    After being discharged from hospital on 5th November I hoped I was going home to recover. 36 hours later things took a very different turn. Paramedics and an ambulance were called and I was back in hospital gasping for breath and drifting in and out of consciousness. I was hooked up to several antibiotic drips including one so powerful that it can only be prescribed by the Director of the General Medical Council. Words like 'not atypical', 'inconclusive' and 'septicemia' were mentioned. In the meantime my liver and kidneys began to shut down.

    Fast forward 3 days when after hovering at deaths door it transpired I had pneumonia and a virus so rare it could have been named after me. I was in agony; if I had a gun I would have gladly used it. Somehow I hung on in there and gradually began to improve until on the afternoon of 15th November I was well enough to be discharged. I have to take things very easy and obviously if there is any change for the worse I need to return to hospital immediately. I sobbed when I arrived home and saw all the things I thought I would never see again including Les, the animals and our lovely home.

    Someone asked me what it was like to nearly die, I'm not sure yet. I think it will take a while to process. I am cancelling all my work until next year. I will be around from time to time but at the moment my health is my number one priority. Thank you all so much for your messages, cards, calls, prayers etc. They mean an awful lot to me.

    Jeane has left the building and is heading to the spa!

    Jeane xo

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