Luckily enough for me, i had a post natal check up the next day with the nurse. As i walked into the doctors, the whole room was spinning and i couldn't catch my breath. I managed to land on a chair and was helped up into the examination room by the nurse. She did my blood pressure (again) which was really low and she couldn't find my pulse at all. She tapped away at her computer and a few moments later a doctor burst in.

Its really hard for me to remember a lot of what happened next, but i know they got Rob and Thomas who were in the car to come in. They explained that i needed to go to hospital as soon as possible as they thought i needed a blood transfusion due to how anemic i was!


One thing i can vividly remember is Thomas' little face in his fathers arms, It was like there was no one in the room but him. I wanted to touch him and i was trying but i just couldn't, i wanted to hold him in my arms and kiss him and talk to him but i just couldn't.
I actually felt as though i was dying, it felt as if everything was slowing down and stopping. Some how we managed to get in the car and travel to the nearest hospital.


The three of us sat in A&E, i was starting to feel a little better which was great, as Thomas wanted milk and i was breast feeding him at the time. So i fed him in a side room in A&E.

If i didn't do anything, i felt completeley normal but even laughing and talking hurt my jaw which was great since Rob is some kind of comedian! After a short wait a doctor came in and asked about my family medical history and stuck loads of stickers all over my chest and performed an ECG (Tracing of the Hearts activity). We presumed that i had a blood clot as my mum had several found on her lungs a few weeks before and had been in hospital.


When we arrived at the hospital they did loads of blood tests, the results came back super quick, i was definateley not anemic! My iron levels were very high. I was assisted to have a chest xray done, and i had that feeling, you just know when somethings seriously wrong by looking at peoples faces. After a couple of minutes, a porter, yes! a hospital porter told me i was going to be staying in, i didn't even know what was wrong at this point, but i was certantly panicking.


On the way to the ward, the porter said, "Do you know what they found?"


I shook my head with what little energy i had, he explained that i had a blood clot, but they couldn't say where, i was kind of relieved as i had been building it up in my head that i was going to die.


Me Rob and Thomas just cuddled in the little side room that Thomas had blagged me, en suite :)

Hi!

I have decided to write a blog, for anyone who is going through heart faliure or anyone who just fancies a nosey!

I gave birth to my son, Thomas on the 12th October 2011 in Lincolnshire, England. Over the proceeding 7 weeks i bacame REALLY tired, i was wheezing after just walking up a couple of stairs and i could not lay flat without becoming outrageously breathless. I didn't want to go to the doctors because things felt so perfect with my new family and i thought if i just ignored it then i would be ok! After a really bad night towards the end of November my Fiance, Rob and my Mum Lorraine persuaded me to go to out of hours GP.
They did my Blood Pressure and checked my pulse which was a little high but, they got a second opinion and decided that i was severeley anemic and i could go home and start some ferrous sulphate tablets that would improve my iron levels.

The next day i attempted to carry on as normal looking after my newborn son whilst my partner was at work, but i just couldn't cope. I couldn't even carry him without every bone in my body feeling like i was just going to keel over. My mum and dad helped out for a while and when Rob came home from work we went to an emergancy appointment at my GP surgery. They did my blood pressure which was 78/33, very low and my pulse rate was irregular measuring 90 beats per minute and then shooting up to over 150 beats per minute.
However i was sent home and told i was just anemic!

Let me Know if anyones reading this and finding it interesting and i'll carry on :)