Slow progress

I’m home from hospital for a few days now and it is depressing how weak and generally unwell I still am. I am forcing myself to do daily walks, which slowly helps. But mostly I’m sort of vegetating on the couch or shuffling around the house like a zombie. I’m still anemic so that doesn’t help. I’m really hoping I’ll be back to normal sooner rather than later.

Mostly fit for the outside. I wish.

I am finally out of the hospital! But man, did that place break me down. I felt mostly fit to face the outside again walking around my three short floors. How deluded I was. The only thing that kind of works is walking from the bedroom to the couch. I just went for a walk with my son as safety person. I wanted to see how far I get. The goal was to walk once around the block.

Diakonissen-Stiftungs-Krankenhaus Speyer. 📍

Finally out of the hospital! Three weeks were more than enough. Now back in the care of my nephrologist and I already feel much better taken care of.

NZH. 📍

The longer you stay at a hospital, the longer you stay there. With every passing day the risk goes up the they come up with new reasons to keep you. It’s really frustrating.

The balance between healing and getting worse in a hospital

Zentrum für Nieren- und Hochdruckkrankheiten. 📍 These hospital stays are grinding me down. I’ve hit the point where the balance has shifted from healing and getting better to getting worse due to hospital related things. Too much lying in bed, getting poked too much and in wrong way leading to hematoma, dealing with people that should know what they are doing, but clearly don’t.

Zentrum für Nieren- und Hochdruckkrankheiten. 📍

At the hospital for nearly two weeks now. Not sure how much longer. But frequency of people poking and prodding me has gone down. So I see this as a good sign.

Friends. I am in the hospital now since Wednesday and today is the first day I’m well enough to use my phone again for a longer period of time. Please update me on world news, US news and German news. What stupid things did I miss?

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