Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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7 November 2010
19:0878990Jeane, hope you didn`t get anything from those fish nibbling away at your toes last month.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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15 November 2010
19:3980163Maybe 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
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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15 November 2010
19:4680165Take your time Jeane,we will still be here when you fit and well again,and hope that will not be long,but do not rush at it.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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15 November 2010
19:5280168Good grief Jeane that all sounds very grim. I hope you will be back to your perky self in no while at all. Look after yourself and we will as Vic says there be waiting for your return.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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15 November 2010
20:1080172My God Jeane, that's terrible - I know what it's like to have someone you love/are close too, get close to death - Jean nearly died 3 or 4 during 2004.
Hope Les is O.K. now too.
You're right Jeane, your health is the number-one priority; glad to hear you are almost mended - take it easy and slowly.
Roger
Brian Dixon
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15 November 2010
20:3180176omg youyou poor dear.get fit and well soon.
15 November 2010
20:3480178Have emailed, Jeanne. Take care.
15 November 2010
20:3480179Jeane, you have been through it, make sure you get lots of rest so you are back in tip top health soon.
Linda and David
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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15 November 2010
20:5380181Recover well, Jeane, and keep the spirits up! My sister had something at least very similar to what you described, many years ago, and recovered totally and completely.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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15 November 2010
21:4880195i can only echo the above, take it slowly jeane.
Jan Higgins
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16 November 2010
10:1080243I am so glad to hear you are on the road to recovery, also you are being so sensible by taking things easy.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 November 2010
12:3880261Thanks for all your comments, prayers, e mails and get well wishes - you have no idea how much I truly appreciate them and all my wonderful Dover forum friends
XO
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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20 November 2010
12:1780862Hello, I'm sitting here surrounded by cards, fruit, chocolates etc, it looks like 'Jeane in Wonderland' only instead of a giant rabbit I have a giant rubber skeleton!
I managed my first walk around the garden unaided this morning; I haven't been outside for about two weeks. I was well wrapped up and the fresh air felt so good. Later on I am off to the hairdressers for a bit of pampering, as all us girls know that always makes helps make us feel better. Thanks again for all your good wishes xx
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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6 January 2011
11:5687876Sorry I've been a bit MIA recently, I had been doing well following the pneumonia / septicemia / virus so yesterday morning I arranged to meet my friend and do some shopping. I felt fine first thing but by the time I got there I was shivering, breathless, feeling sick and ached all over. My friend took one look at me and pronounced I looked 'dreadful'. We had a coffee and I got a taxi to the doctors. Unfortunately I still have pneumonia and now a dose of the flu. I have 2 lots of antibiotics to take which are making me extremely nauseous. I'm praying I don't end up back in hospital again. So much for a great start to the New Year!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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6 January 2011
12:2787878you are in the wars jeane, let's hope that the antibiotics work and you don't need to go into hospital.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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6 January 2011
12:5387879Sorry to hear that Jeane..hope you will be better soon. Sounds very rough. We have a number of our members ill or with hospital visits pending, so we must be on a jinx. Maybe someone has put a spell on Doverforum, we will have to get you to lift it Jeane when you're well
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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6 January 2011
14:4987897Get well soon Jeane and my best wishes again. As PaulB mentions above, we look like a jinxed lot on here. Hope also that Colette is better than she was. Roll on the Spring.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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6 January 2011
15:2287901You poor thing Jeane, get well soon. What we all need is a little sun even if it is still cold, I know it gives me a lift.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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6 January 2011
18:0787916Thank you Colin for your best wishes for Colette, she came out of hospital for Christmas and is improving slowly but surely
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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6 January 2011
18:5387938Thank you for you kind words and good wishes.
Barry W-S Glad Colettee is improving.
