It started pretty innoxiously with a dull pain in the ear, but within 2 days I was crawling up the wall and ceiling with the pain. (Anyone who has had an infection in that area knows what its like, worse than the 'Marathon Man' torture of drilling into a raw nerve of a tooth.) On the 3rd day I couldn't stand it any longer and went down to the Accident & Emergency Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. I was seen after about an hour and give a light dose of antibiotics. The pain and swelling increased that night and Myra, my love, stayed up all night and fed me cold towels to lie across my face to take the swelling down... Thank you honey...
By next afternoon, not having slept for 3 days and feeling faint, I went back the A & E Department. Within a half hour of seeing the Doctors I was booked into Charing Cross Hospital, just down the Road. Dr. Seymour, an Ear Specialist, saw me pretty much straight away and decided to book me into a ward.
For the next 36 hours, my system was pumped full of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs via an intravenous drip and given some heavy pain killers orally. Even after about 12 hours I began to feel normal again, well as normal as I ever was anyway... Dr. Seymour saw me again and thankfully decided to let me out. I felt so high at not having any pain that I felt like it was all over and I could get back to editing. But within a day the pain was starting to come back, as obviously the new oral drugs where taking time to take over in the system. Its now been a week since I was in hospital and finally I think its over for real... It must be I'm updating the website...
Unlike the 'Press' which like to say how terrible the NHS is, all I can say is that every part of the NHS I came into contact with has been amazing. Thank you so much to Dr. Seymour and the day and night staff of 'Ward 7 West' at the Charing Cross Hospital and the staff at the Accident & Emergency Department at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
