14.04 – A special Marathon….
… Or: the famous “surgery-risk” …
Well, yes, the plan was, to report about my Marathon at Obermain (GER). However, again, it ended completely different and went totally AWOL…
Starting gun – Easter-Weekend
Could I have had chosen for the start of the drama no better day than Good Friday! Still all good in the morning, a tempo run with 1000 meter intervals went rather well (2:04h hours, 26.98km, pace of 4.36). Perfect form, yet I suffered at the end of the unit deep-seated back pain. Based on my kidney-stone experience from 2015, alarm bells started to ring. And so it turned out. After a sleepless night with vomiting/diarrhea we opted for the emergency room on Saturday, where the diagnosis of a kidney stone (9 * 1.5mm) has been confirmed. Well, get it out quickly, then it’s over. One marathon was thus history, one of a special kind started 🙁
The first 15k: All easy – the surgery (29.3)
after one night in hospital I felt, funnily enough, very good. I performed solid bike units on Easter-Sunday and –Monday, for being back in hospital on Tuesday for the supposed to be routine stone extraction. The stone was smashed by a Laser, the anesthesia load due to only 20 minute small(er).
After 30k its going to be tough – the yet unknown nightmare started (2.4)
Already Thursday/Friday after the undertaking I felt really good, was looking forward to the training and being back at work. At Saturday morning, however, an awkward feeling overcame me, accompanied by indefinable pain and sickness. The clinical thermometer unveiled the not acceptable: 37.9C. An Infection started to spread, obvious that the surgery was the reason! My partner, physician, opted without doubt immediately for antibiotics!
I spend the weekend with almost 40C temperature on the sofa, hoping that the antibiotics start kicking in. Happily, Monday morning it seemed to have worked out, temperature went down to 38.1C and I started feeling slightly better. A blood test at my partner’s surgery room should bring a light into the tunnel. However, as those results take 24h and because the temperature starting to climb back to 40C, the hospitalization was inevitable. The sepsis was knocking on the door!
„Hit the wall“– Mental toughness helps (6.4)
the blood results in the hospital revealed the magnitude of the disaster. Inflammation value beyond the Good and the Evil, the antibiotics from now on intravenous. As of Tuesday with a different component because the fever didn’t decrease.
As of this point, the doctors’ prognoses have been very vague or to be precisely have no longer be existent and the former quick-win diagnosis pyelitis became obsolete. Some odd germinal/bacteria were about to erode my body! Caught in a very, very bad movie with no happy end? One comfort: the medics went also extreme nervous:
Within a few hours I finished two radiologic and one gynecological examination, thereof one with contrast medium (poison for the kidneys 🙁 ). All that I passed with stoic calm. Toughness and being able to suffer. Great characteristics. That help. Sometimes. More often!
Status Wednesday Afternoon: No Plan. Nada. Nothing. Niente!
The rater long finish line
Thanks to my sweetheart, the game plan changed. He entered the hospital Wednesday afternoon and kept persistent on studying the CT-pictures together with the urologist. And hence, as an specialist in internal medicine, he was able to spot free fluids in the abdomen. Another final MRT brought the confirmation: There was something which was not supposed to be there!
For various reasons I was transferred on that very evening to the clinic at Starnberg. From the beginning competent and professional treatment by the head physician, Dr. Harrer. The antibiosis was changed and since then, 2 different antibiotics were blasted still intravenous into my body. That I suffered now from side effects is needless to say!
Ah yes, the free fluids: The agenda for Thursday contained yet another contrast-CT to puncture, drain and examine that stuff. However, it didn’t come that far as the fluids had gone AWOL. Yippih, the pharmaceutical weapons worked out, attested by the next laboratory results on Friday! Disadvantage, no-one can say for sure, where the infection came from. Its close, after consulting another urologist, that not everything went according to plan at the first “routine” intervention.
Regeneration (11.4)
after 3 days more of intravenous antibiosis, I was able to leave hospital yesterday with doses for another week for oral intake. I am feeling much, much better, although I know, the way back can be long and tedious. The past 3 weeks have been a big strain to my small though fantastic body. If all goes well, and once I am able to go back to work, I can restart my training around the 25th of April 🙂
So long
Cheers Anja
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