I'm actually a bit further north of Sydney, I'm in Newcastle, so about 1.5hrs up. I just say Sydney as not many foreigners know where Newcastle is you're the exception!

Drea is doing fairly well. She's had her stim taken out and is talking to her pain dr about other procedures, including ketamine. Hopefully she'll pop in here soon and give you a proper update!

The 10 day infusion works the same way here as the 7 day infusions I had- you're in hospital for 10 days on a constant drip of ketamine, though they change the iv insertion spot every few days. You can get out of bed and walk around, just taking your iv trolley with you on its battery charge. I'd often go and sit outside (for a smoke ) or when family came to visit, or go downstairs to the chocolate bar vending machine in the middle of the night! lol They do blood tests at the start, the middle and near the end of the infusion to make sure your liver function is still ok. They might check mine more often due to my previous problems.

Oh, and it was a white tail spider bite. So not poisonous, but they do get infections as they're considered "dirty spiders" as they push the dirt from their fangs into you when they bite I was pregnant so couldn't take strong antibiotics easily, so thats why it got really infected and caused the nerve damage and the rsd spread.

Chat to you again soon!

x Kate