wonder what hospital food tastes like these days
By Jim stewart
@saulgoodman (2643)
Dundee, Scotland
October 7, 2016 9:43pm CST
Sadly I think that's where I will be in a few short hours.
The med's haven't worked.
Actually I feel worse than I did 24 hours ago.
Foot just as swollen and still can't walk.
Pain that hurts like hell.
And now my foot is turning a funny colour lol but I am not amused.
If this is gout its not gout like I gave experienced before that's for sure.
Wife had said if she doesn't see an improvement by 9am hospital it is.
I tried to walk normally when she was in the kitchen but I fell over and was lucky I landed on the bed.
Don't think I can fake being ok this time. Oh yes I have a history of pretending to be fine when I am not.
Posting on here has kept me sane through the pain.
In hospital it might again.
Poetic or what!
Serves me right for eating that bloody haggis pie.
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9 responses
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
8 Oct 16
Saying this: hospital is better than not being healed. Hope you feel better soonest.
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
Hello again.
I know that you are right. Of course I do but its a hassle I could do without right now. But I need to go only I don't want to be kept in as it would be a but difficult for my wife out here in the sticks all alone.
She doesn't drive. Not on a bus route.
But she says if there is no improvement then go I must.
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@marguicha (216466)
• Chile
8 Oct 16
I hope your foot heals. And I hope your stay at the hospital is as small as it can.
Two years ago, I got a virus just after my chemo and ended up at the hospital. After a week there I cried and yelled that cancer hadn´t killed me, but the food at the hospital would. My oncologist came laughing and sent me home.
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@marguicha (216466)
• Chile
8 Oct 16
@saulgoodman It helped though! The doctor laughed but sent me home. You should have seen the wonders Leticia gave me to eat with the same ingredient they used at the hospital!
@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
I gave it a bang on a kick start which sprung back on me on Wednesday. I forgot all about that. My wife says I have broken my big toe which is why its going purple and the gout meds haven't worked.
Not s problem then.
Should be in an out in an hour and back here for my phone arriving.
If its not that........
You would have been funny yelling about the food like that.
But you were probably right.
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
@marguicha ii would be scared the hospital gave me okra as that would kill me
@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
My wife says I might have fractured my foot when a kick start on a bike sprung back on it on Wednesday. I thought nothing of it because its happened before. It did get me on the big toe.
That might explain the meds not working
And would explain me not being able to walk.
And it would explain the sharp stinging pulsing pain
A broken tie wouldn't be a reason for them to keep me in.
I hope its that then.
My wife just smiled when I read your reply out.
Thanks Patsie
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Oct 16
@saulgoodman oh I rember when I brole my big toe I dropped a full
gallon of paint can on it oh did I yell my hubby insisted we go to EF 'the
x ray tech x rayed it He chuckled and said "you sure did a number
on that toe. He splinted it to two other toes and gave us a prescription
for pain medication,
@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
@Hatley
Ouch. That must have hurt like hell.
Good news. It is gout. Got stronger pills. And in 5 hours back in bed they seem to be working
@CelticSoulSister (1640)
• Southend-On-Sea, England
8 Oct 16
Hope you don't have to go into hospital. If it's any help, I spent some time in hospital a few years ago and must confess the food wasn't all that great, but I'd hope it might have improved since then. Menus were brought round to us in the ward on a daily basis and we had to choose - it was the same choice from about 10 different things every day - and the hot meals were sent up from somewhere in the bowels of the hospital, deep froze, then thawed and microwaved. I ended up having this macaroni thing every day which was quite nice and bread & butter pudding for afters every day. I couldn't eat the fruit or jelly due to my illness, but the bread & butter pudding, if you like it, was really nice. It's OK to say you're not fine when you're not....I promise lol.
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@CelticSoulSister (1640)
• Southend-On-Sea, England
8 Oct 16
@saulgoodman Glad you didn't get admitted and sometimes the zonk factor of stronger pills can do more good than the frozen/de-frosted roast pork with these things I think were supposed to be runner beans. Mince & tatties would have been nice....don't get them down here though, but Scots food is better than Essex food.
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
Nah didn't get admitted. Sent home with stronger pills.
Your hospital stay sounds exactly like my last one.
Mince and tatties were all I risked.
Bowels of the hospital right enough
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
@CelticSoulSister
Could be but I thought English food in general was ok in my army days
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
8 Oct 16
any swelling and changes in color will scare me enough to go straight to the ER. i know they are not good signs and don't want them to get worse.
because worse means things can get complicated, inconvenient, uncomfortable and expensive, so i'm better off averting all that.
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
@hereandthere
No. Doctors are not daft. One look at my file told them it would be gout.
@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
The change in colour scared me.
Got stronger pills and I can see and feel an improvement already. I am so relieved
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
Hello
I thought that it was a gout flare up. But it might not be that.
I had a bang on the foot with a recoil from a motor bike kick start.
It was side but I thought nothing about it as its a regular happening.
I ate something spicy and put the pain and swelling down to gout.
I might have been wrong.
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
@angelare
My foot is turning purple. I think j will play dmsafe and get to hospital at 9am when my lift arrives.
Its 04.44 now and I think getting herbal medicine now might not be easy.
I will ley you know how I get on.
Maybe we can talk about herbal medicine in the future
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@angelare (41)
• Yogyakarta, Indonesia
8 Oct 16
@saulgoodman sounds bad, but I have other solution than go to the hospital. You can use herbal medicine. That's a common medicine in Asia.
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
Me too because I don't like pain or not being able to go about my business as usual.
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@infatuatedbby (94921)
• United States
8 Oct 16
@saulgoodman I don't tolerate pain very well. How's it going today on your foot
@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
Its the only thing I've really eaten in 14 weeks not on my healthy eaten plan. And it was spicy.
Got new meds. Stronger anti inflammatory and its working already.
Been home for 5 hours. Went back to bed. Woke up. Can wiggle my toes again.
@5thHouse (1678)
• Sheffield, England
8 Oct 16
Oh dear, that sounds bad. I hope you don't have to be admitted to hospital but if you are, I hope the food is okay. The only time I was in hospital was when I had my daughters and I remember the food being pretty grim then (though we are talking nearly 20 years ago) and my husband did the classic thing of bringing in Marks & Spencer sandwiches.
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
8 Oct 16
Thankfully they didn't keep me. Different pills. Seem to be doing the trick. Should be walking ok again soon. Lesson learned
