Just nipping in with a quick get well card for Natalie, I’ve loads to tell you about today but will do that later as we are heading back to the hospital.
Image is After The Fall by Mo’s Digital Pencil and I thought it was very apt for Natalie.
Image coloured with copics.
Last night when we went in to visit Natalie we found her asleep, this sleep was well needed as she has been in so much pain she has had very little of it these past few days, they have upped her pain relief and they seemed to have knocked her out. We hadn’t been there long before she awoke and the tears started falling. They have put her on Tramadol, something that both myself and my Mam already take for our pain and although they are very good they can knock you sideways so to speak.
Natalie is feeling a little sickly and dizzy from the new meds but if they can take away the pain she has got then it could be worth it. She managed to eat some dinner, a cheese omelette and said it was quite tasty so that was a bonus as normally hospital food is quite bland.
She also had a facial X-ray after we left yesterday afternoon so hopefully they will find the cause of what is happening with Natalie.
Natalie is very upset, worrying that her face will stay like it is at present but we have tried to reassure her that once the infection is under control she will start to see an improvement, sometimes things have to get worse to get better and that seems to be what is happening at the moment, the swelling looks as if it is going to the other side of her face but not as excessive.
I have everything crossed that she has had a good nights rest and when I get in to see her this afternoon I will see some improvement.
Thank you for all your thoughts and well wishes for Natalie.
Please keep Natalie in your thoughts, poor love is quite poorly, State of play when we went in to visit her was that she hadn’t been seen by a doctor, I went to the desk and asked when the doctor would be there and they said they would chase it up, after 2 more request and a couple of hours the one that arrived was full of apologies, they had missed her when they did the rounds.
It seems that she should have been getting drops and hadn’t and he seems to have now took her under his wing to sort out her pain relief and get some scan of her face done.
Anyway I’ll let you judge for yourself how she is looking.
As you can see, it is worse.
Poor Natalie got steadily worse last night and we ended up going through to A&E as the swelling increased as did the pain.
The have admitted Natalie into hospital as the area that is of concern is the Danger Area for the Face, they have mentioned Facial Cellulitis, she has been put on a drip for antibiotics and pain relief.
Well what a to do, my daughter Natalie took bad on Christmas day with pains in her face she took the usual pain killers thinking she had a bad tooth and needing a dentist, it seemed to get a little better by the evening but on boxing day got even worse and started to swell.
We called the doctors helpline and were given a number for an emergency dentist to call today we couldn’t get her looked at until 5.30 pm and had to go to the University Hospital, to be honest I thought it was an abscess but it turns out that there is nothing wrong with her teeth it seems to be an infection in her face, poor soul looks like she has gone 10 rounds in the boxing ring, I’ll let you see for yourself.
So after a couple of hours we got home with antibiotics and pain killers in hand and a frozen bag of peas as a compress, she is due back in work tomorrow but if this is no better I won’t be letting her go.
