Category — Excuses

You know, ordinarily I’d LOVE to lose five pounds in five days, but not like this.

I went to a local urgent care clinic Saturday night and from there to the emergency room and hospital admission. And I stayed there until Thursday.

To make a tedious story short, I’ll just give you a laundry list of what was making me feel so punk:

• Massive kidney infection
• Multiple kidney stones (non-obstructing)
• Pneumonia, with possible underlying mild asthma
• Bronchitis
• Ovarian cyst
• Anemia

Yeah, I didn’t feel so good. Fever over 104, chills, soaking sweats, shaking, nausea, the heaves, a really yucky cough, and some pain, although not on the legendary scale of most kidney stones, thank goodness. The hospital stay did me good, despite the fact they over-hydrated me a bit — to the point I was afraid we’d have to cut my rings off.

But much like the Monty Python dude who was turned into a newt, “I got bettah!”

Sorry to all who wonder what happened to the blogger who usually is a prompt responder to comments, emails, and Entrecard ad requests/card drops. I’m still puny, but much improved. I’ll work my way through the communications backups on a first-in, first-out basis over the next few days.

I’m off work for another week, just resting at home. I’ll have to go back in a few weeks to have one kidney stone broken up (sounds like a real barrel of fun) and in May to have my lungs checked again with another CAT scan.

So, how was your week? :o)

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Like everyone else in my office, I succumbed to whatever is going around. For me, it was a massive sinus infection, with both ears also involved. I finally dragged to the doctor on Saturday when fever hit 103. I’ve spent the rest of this week re-discovering the goodness of ice-cold ginger ale, antibiotics priced on the diamonds-and-emeralds scale, and sleep.

I’ll be posting again soon, though. Just wanted to pop my head in and say “hi.”

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