Well who would of thought back in August that I'd be writing from Hospital over the Christmas period. I don't recommend anybody to be ill at weekends and as for Christmas holidays - what a joke. What happened to dedicated Doctors: they are only interested in pay and conditions. Labs are closed and New Year is fast approaching. The skeleton crews on duty don't know what's wrong with me and there is no information filtering down to them on which they can take action. Right - that's my rant, sorry about that.

I came in to Hospital a week last Monday with a few odd spikes of Temperature above 38°,  a suspicious tightening in my right chest and a slight discomfort swallowing. Since then my body's gone completely nuts. Lost grip in my right hand, no rotation of the wrist - couldn't pick up a glass of water with it. Then it moved on to knee joints - pain so bad I couldn't stand. Been on Pireton to calm the immune system and Co-Codamol to ease pain and my right hand above my head in a sling.

That pain problem is now calming but my stomach... Complete blockage for days now - that's Co-Codamol for you combined with 3 different antibiotics. One wonders how I would have fared without any damn treatment. I definitely picked up a secondary infection in here. All three guys in the ward went down with it on the same day. Temperature hitting above 40° for a couple of days which was scary and very debilitating.

Don't think anyone's taken my temperature since mid morning... it's now 10.40 pm. Night Night I'm definitly here for New Year. Aargh!