by Jo Jarvis | Oct 2, 2024 | Hospital Stays
The Doctors daily ward rounds in a hospital are a big anticipated event for any patient, but when you don’t know what is wrong with you and you are desperate for information and just want to get better and go home, they take on another level of focus. They normally...
by Jo Jarvis | Oct 2, 2024 | Hospital Stays
My entire experience of heart problems is based on films where the heart attack victim clutches their heart on the left side of the body, screams and drops to the floor – dead. At no point in any film I have seen, does someone clutch the middle of their chest...
by Jo Jarvis | Oct 2, 2024 | Hospital Stays
It’s been a while since I’ve stayed in hospital for a period of time, and since the last time I have enjoyed 11 years of having an en-suite at home. I have never flat shared, back packed or yearned to sleep in a hostel with lots of other people. I am not proud of this...
by Jo Jarvis | Oct 2, 2024 | Hospital Stays
I was very slow to realise that I was the star of my own drama. Insisting on my ipad, notebooks and my diary being brought into me so I could continue working, refusing to pronounce Sarcoidosis properly as I refused to believe I had it – I called it “Scardiosis or...
by Jo Jarvis | Oct 2, 2024 | Hospital Stays
If Carlsberg made pacemakers, they would roll out the red carpet for my ‘top of the range’ Pacemaker. It wasn’t the usual matchbox size which I had been expecting – of course it wasn’t – it was the size of a brick, complete with its own defibrillator, and called an...