It is with a certain excitement and great joy that I find my readers again after seven weeks of being absent due to illness.
Once again I realized how fragile life is.
In my October 16th column, I mentioned that I had returned on time from Paris with health problems and that I was happy to be closer to the health staff at CHUM.
I’ve never been right because the next night I was taken to the hospital in shock.
For the ninth time I quietly parted with life, I, who previously wrote that I would find her in Paris. Rather, I walked the path of death there.
In the emergency room of the Honoré Mercier Hospital in Saint-Hyacinthe, where I was transported, it took me some time to realize the seriousness of my condition.
However, when the emergency doctors came to my bedside, they took care of me efficiently.
Outstanding medical staff
I can still hear the doctor asking me when I was semi-conscious if we could get my heart going again if it stopped. His voice seemed to come from beyond.
I had a severe urinary tract infection, I had a fever, my blood pressure was dangerously low, and I had kidney failure. We’re less worried about an immunocompromised person like me after a lung transplant.
A word of advice: don’t wait between life and death to decide whether or not you want to be revived!
After receiving first aid from Honoré-Mercier, I was transferred to the CHUM intensive care unit.
My pulmonologist welcomed me there without being proud of me. He told me that I could have died from it, that I wasn’t out of the woods and that I should have acted beforehand.
Another piece of advice: don’t wait until the situation worsens to see your doctor.
However, my recent hospital stay has allowed me to appreciate the work of a new set of specialists such as nephrologists, urologists and infectiologists.
It is an extraordinary opportunity to have a healthcare network like ours.
News as a dilettante
I admit that the news in my condition has not interested me much in the last few weeks.
There are, however, a few elements that caught my attention and which I intend to return to in future columns.
Bernard Drainville’s Education Appointment, Good Deal or Bad Deal? The resilient ethics of the CAQ, a far cry from the virginity it displayed when it was in opposition.
François Legault’s inconsistencies regarding the oath of allegiance and QS’s compromises on this issue.
Government powerlessness to solve health problems. The flat ventrism of the CAQ off Ottawa.
The PQ’s determination to remain true to their beliefs.
A whole menu to restart my heart in the chronicles!
