Liver and Cherry

[Sundae]

When we got there, the female paramedic - who'd been driving - went to check me in and scare up a wheelchair.
I entered A&E in style, vomiting blood into a (new) cardboard hat.
Oddly enough I was wheeled straight into a side room rather than left in the waiting area.

All was well until I knocked the (new, clean) hat down the side of the bed. In leaning over to see where it was I suddenly felt ill again, and tried to get off the bed.
Bloody vom all over my slippers, jogging bottoms and jumper (all now binned).
I also felt the spasm clench my body to such an extent that there was a significant back door exit too.

I was cleaned up at this point, I know that much, then wheeled to another area where I was advised I would be going straight into surgery. A lovely Dr then botched three attempts at fitting a canula before a Nurse took over and got two in at first attempt. I had another fitted later, jingle all the way.

I was fully sedated, and barely came round when wheeled to the Gastro ward.
I do remember that I kept removing my oxygen mask because it made me feel sick, so they stuck tubes up my nose. They also had someone sit next to me, and having become concerned at my breathing I was whisked off for an X-Ray to check I wasn't bleeding internally.

I knew at this point my varices had burst, leaking blood into my stomach, which led to the vomiting, but I don't remember when they told me this.

Back on the ward I was advised that I would be transferred into isolation as soon as the room was available, and it was as they started to move the bed that I was sick again. That was the last time, but necessitated another clean-up. I wore disposable mesh knickers the rest of my stay (and they really chafed) and an incontinence pad for the next three days.

When I reached my private room I had a catheter fitted and was on oxygen for the next 24 hours (I think). I had four separate drips - saline, vitamins, anti-biotics and something else I can't remember. Possible two different types of vitamin, possibly plasma. It was touch and go as to whether I had a blood transfusion due to the amount I'd lost.