22 Nov 24

Southampton General Hospital

Well I have resigned myself to the fact that nobody has any idea when my transher will take place.

The biggest issue is that though I am no longer on the very strong antibiotics "Rifampicin", but my temperature keeps spiking around 38°C, which is keeping me here in Southampton until at least Monday.

At least there was wall to wall blue skies this morning and two new vessels in the docks, visible" from my ward window.

Not the best of photos as I was looking straight into the sun.

As for wildlife it was just to bright for my eyes to spot anything apart two large Wasp sps. at the window.

Ships today

This is the German Container Ship "Hanoi Express".More on this vessel here 

And this is the Passenger Ship "Aurora", flying the flag of Bermuda. More on this vessel here 

Aircraft today

This is the Jet2holidays Boeing 737-8AL registration G-DRTL.......

........on its way from......

........Nottingham to Tenerife. More on this aircraft here 

Incidentally this travel company Jet2holidays will be the one Dawn and I will be using early next year when we head off to Alcudia, Majorca.
A carefully planned holiday right next to one of the top bird destinations in the Mediterranean here

Update
Well you don't get that much closer than that, as the Ambulance crew arrived to take me to Dorchester, after a change of heart by the hospital medical team when they decided I would be okay to be transferred.

Well with bags packed and me strapped onto a very comfortable stretcher, I was wheeled round to the nurses station to pick up my notes.

However as I was looking down the corridor I could see the young doctor, who had told me earlier that I was being transferred, walking very quickly towards me.

As soon as I saw his face,  I knew what was coming!!!!!

Back into the ward and he explained that one of the top micro biologists in the country, having anylised my bloods from yesterday, realised I was on the wrong antibiotics again.

Moving to Dorchester without knowing what antibiotics I should be on would have been really risky.

So here I remain until sometime next week, with new antibiotics to be issued soon, which will be monitored over the next few days.

In fact I have just had my temperature taken at 16:30 and it was 38.4°C. And now we know why I'm not going anywhere fast.

Ps the Ambulance crew said this was the closest they had ever got to getting a patient into their Ambulance before being stopped.