New Life part 2

Once Carole was admitted she was CT scanned and MRI scanned, a junior doctor, made a big effort to get the MRI scanner opened up, as Caroles condition was so serious,
She was on the Medical Evaluation Ward for about a week, until they could find a bed.
They found large lesions on the outside surface of her brain.
The diagnosis was ADEM, Acute Disseminating Encephalymyalitis, and she was put on an older non-neuro ward upstrairs, as neurology was closed due to the noro-virus.
This is an auto-immune disease caused by a viral infection. So she was treated with anti viral and eventually steroids to reduce the brain swelling.
The older ward upstairs at the RUH was not great, and all the wards suffer from noisy people , at night, and too many old folks, who shouldn't be in the hospital, but society doesn't provide other options.
They should put all the noisy patients together, so the other patients get a good nights sleep, enabling faster recovery.
Carole was in for about 4-5 weeks, my employer was very good, allowing me to leave early to visit her.
She was not right on discharge, she couldn't remember the street names on the way home.
I find doing this blog mixed, it brings up memories, but feel others can learn from the events that happened.
Here is a picture I took in Spain this year.