Not dead yet, but given the apparently minor nature of my condition I got closer than you might expect
Skip to the end, I picked up an infection around my surgery site, probably during the surgery itself. They always tell you up front there's a risk of infection but you of course never believe it will happen to you. Expect this time it did.
I got an Ambulance ride to MK on Monday night and was put straight onto antibiotics and an MRI. Second MRI with contrast the next day.
Over Tuesday and Wednesday I had 4 or 5 (can't remember) 'septic showers'… which are not something you can get in a Dutch brothel but rather when your body suddenly gets hit with a load of bacteria and kicks off basically every inflammatory response at once. My body temperature hit 40.9 degrees (over 41 is considered immediate threat to life), I felt like I was swimming in ice water and uncontrolled spasm and fever.
Now imagine you have a slipped disc in your back, then imagine you're shaking so hard you might break your teeth, then imagine how those two things feel in combination
In the middle of the night/this morning they bussed me over the JR in Oxford on lights and sirens, which was kinda fun
, juiced up on morphine and some kind of gas and air, then opened me up and cleaned a load of gunk out. They did at the JR cause apparently this place has really good surgery facilities/people.
Since last night I've been on 4 IV antibiotics, a combination the doctor described as "Basically Demestos". Probably gonna be on IV antibiotics for the next 8-12 weeks. Fixed my toothache already though, maybe I don't need root canal any more.
GWS! 
