WOW!
I cannot believe that I started this blog with so few hits and now by freak accident found people have been messaging me. FYI - Replied to you all.
I am now more determined than ever to keep this going particularly as I enter a stage of my life scary to the norm......
I want to have a baby......well I am 30 in 5 months!
So since my last posts I found an amazing consultant in London, right next door to Great Ormond Street where I was diagnosed. He has given me a new lease of life and comfort in what I am (and plan) to do. Any UK readers I can give you his details if you are looking for a good doctor.
I have bought my own house and got married less than 2 weeks ago We MCAD peeps do not deal well with stress so just imagine all that in a year! Thanks to my wonderful Warren everything went well.
At one point this year I did feel I was on the cusp of going to hospital but the education I had given my now husband prevented that.
I was away on my friends Hen do and did not feel well. I had been drinking so most assumed it was that. It was norovirus. My friend (who was pregnant - poor thing) had to drive me home whist I continued to vomit in the back of her car. When I returned home my husband too thought this was the result of alcohol. This was only because of his lack of experience when I was extremely ill. I told him this was not the case and to call mum. He did and she was there in 10 minutes. One look and she saw the MCAD rearing its ugly head. Rather than take over she explained to my husband it was illness, what to do and call if I get worse.
She knew what she was doing. By this stage was vomiting (on cue) every 15 minutes, I could not support my head and my speech was slurred this continued for 16 hours (the worst I remember).
As soon as I could stomach anything my husband fed me a teaspoon of plain ice-cream every 30 minutes to get the sugar I so desperately needed back into me.
What did I learn from this - A lot of people (when you are young) see the side effects of MCAD a lot like people who are drunk. Always have someone with you or who you can contact that you trust. Others will ignore the signs and this is where us MCAD'ers stp into dangerous territory. Keep safe and trust your instincts.
