Tuesday, February 22, 2011

February 25th - Still in the Hospital

I am getting stir crazy to say the least. You know you've been in the hospital too long when the janitors know you on a first name basis. Time for me to go.

The lung biopsy they did via needle a few weeks ago showed nothing. So they decided to do another biopsy on me yesterday, were they stuck a camera down my windpipe to get tissue samples. Of course, no result yet.

There has been some talk about discharging me this weekend, I really hope It happens. I've been felling better. A little stronger every day. Definitely ready to get out of here.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Feburary 15th - OMG I've been here a month!

As I think I've mentioned before, I have a very hard time writing about my experiences while I am going through them, especially if they are traumatic. It's much easier to write when I feel as though I have gotten through the worse of it. But in all honestly, the biggest reason for my delay in posting this time is that I have been heavily medicated though the past weeks. Once I had finished my four day chemo ordeal (which of course, turned unto 5), my swallowing issues and sores in my mouth and throat just got worse. The pain was so severe, I spent most of the time sleeping from being so heavily medicated. When I was awake I could barely form coherent sentences and text messages, so I really didn't want to embaress myself by trying to put together a post that made no sense. Now that my counts have finally started to come in, and my sores in my throat and mouth have impproved here's a quick recap of past couple weeks.

I felt extremely sick as promised and the pain in my throat was unrelenting, I lost the ability to swallow, even water, by the beginning of February. Which is a very weird feeling. You still have an appetite, so you want to eat but that first bite of pudding goes down like shards of glass you quickly remember why you gave up entire eating. I received bags upon bags of blood from all of my donor heroes out there. I even spent a brief stay in the ICU because they I had an infection and they couldn't regulate my blood pressure. Pretty scary stuff.

Couple good things I can say about the last few weeks is that time has gone by fast. Also it's been great having mom and Heath down here with me. Of course, I am not recovering as fast as I would have liked too, I was actually supposed to be dicharged this past monday, but I continue to hit a few speed bumps along the way. And if my wish for prayers and well wishes haven't worn out, I have one to ask.

They found a spot on my lung durning my last CT scan and they are going to do a biopsy of it Wednesday to determine what it is. They think it may be some kind fungal or bacterial infection but they want to know what it is they are dealing with so they know how best to treat it best.

Thanks for all of your love and support.