Part 10 - Me n my bonce

I had no idea what the time was most of the time as I could not see a clock and there was no tv's due to it being neuro HDU the colours and flicking of TV would not be great for us! This meant a whole lot of people watching! Usually my favourite pastime probably because I was a nosey bugger, but this was not the nicest of things to watch, everyone was really ill in there! Hang on that must mean I am too! Realising what I was going through I felt like I was in here so long even the healthcare assistants were actually leaving as they had qualified! Come on Danielle pull yourself together and get out of here! You've already missed BBQ's, girls nights out, birthdays, anniversaries and now a holiday, what next?! I had a retirement doo in September and a family wedding in October I best be out of here by then so I can go enjoy and shake a leg with everyone! The same 3 friends I mentioned earlier came to see me and gave me some good news they'd only managed to get tickets to a concert, not just any concert though (no not Marks and Spencer's either!) Will I Am's one off concert at the 02!!!!!!! Dope! Woo hoo! Something else to look forward to!
My EVD could be removed, a doctor came and it was done at my bedside, I thought I had to go to theatre but nope it could be done there! The doctor that did it looked too young, no anaesthetic wow this is gonna hurt I thought, but it didn't! The only thing I felt was when he had to stitch the hole back up, slight pain as after all it was my head with a needle going through it! Squeak! Eeeewww I could hear the thread being pulled through my head!!!! Be brave Dan, be brave! All done and dusted in about 10 minutes! Wait till mum and dad get a load of this I thought! How flash! Lol! After this my head was sticky still, was I sweating like a beast or is my head leaking? I had these special pads put on my pillows (all I can describe them as was massive sanitary towel but in a sheet form, no wings though!) nope my head was leaking! So another doctor came to stitch my head some more, this time anaesthetic was injected into my head and another 3 stitches done. Bit numb this time but could still hear the squeak as the thread was pulled through my head! Mr Chandler came to see how the new stitches were doing along with Pedro, he got more than he bargained for when opened my curtain! I had just had an 'episode' they then moved to the head end of the curtain to see how I was doing! It always gave me a boost when I saw Mr Chandler or Pedro such great bedside manners and made me feel they had great hope in me! A couple of days later my head was still leaking! I had finally become that tea bag with all the holes the doctors and nurses had stabbed me with so many needles, I was leaking! So again more stitches (all this was to try and save me having a shunt!) this time I begged that my dad could stay as mum was too squeamish! He covered my head with a sheet of paper had a fishing hook looking needle threaded and my dad's hand! What more could I need? Oh yeah anaesthetic! The poor doctor was told this by me, my dad, any nurse I had told including the sister, I think he got the hump in the end with everyone telling him! The fishing hook needle snapped (I got one tough head I thought!) so a straight needle had to be used and not allowed any anaesthetic! Yikes! My dad holding my hand started talking to me about golf! Really? All I know about golf was, well, I was crap at it! But it worked taking my mind off of it and he was finished! Phew please work I remember thinking!
My nurses again all really nice and a few days later I had my hair washed again! Yay! Having only bed baths on a daily basis a hair wash too really made me feel refreshed and a little cleaner, considering I was borderline OCD before being admitted with 2 sometimes 3 showers a day I was coping with the mingingness (should get this word added to the oxford dictionary!) quite well! No blow dry again, dry naturally, naturally now seemed to be a big frizzy mullet (Pat Sharp would have been jealous!) then mum would plait it again for me!