Lockdown Diary - Wednesday 15th July 2020
My first post since Sunday, when things began to go awry. I don't think I'll document all the details, but suffice it to say that the pain killers I've been taking have caused severe constipation. I didn't sleep at all Sunday night and was in agony for most of Monday, culminating in a call out to the out of hours GP who gave me an injection as pain killer / anti-inflammatory. Finally after taking various remedies including one whose effects the GP described as 'like dynamite', things began to move, painfully, mid-Tuesday afternoon. Today I feel much better, though I do now have the reverse problem, but, believe me, that's much better! Compared to the pain from the two operations, the pain I experienced on Monday night was off the scale. I stopped taking the opiate-based pain killers on Sunday and prefer the any undimmed pain to the side effects. During these three days in hell, my sons did a phenomenal job of looking after me, making up meds, bringing ...