| | Well...I have lots to write about but don't have patience to write them all down...so I'll try to be detailed yet brief. My dad is doing great...the cancer is still in the very early stages...he's going out to Mayo clinic to see the doctor's there next Wednesday...but things are looking really good there...As for myself....well, here's an over view of my two days in the hospital last week Monday I took off work for the Holiday and to see my parents...we went to the popcorn festival, it was fun...I wasn't feeling great but didn't think too much of it...Monday night we went home and I kept feeling worse...ended up with regular flu symptoms through the night...by morning my sugar was still fine yet I had keytones...so I decided to go to the doctors...well, when I got there they took my vitals and decided then with a pulse of 152 that I needed to be admitted into the hospital...so I was directly admitted, for the first time, not for my diabetes. So they put me on a medical floor and started me on a heart monitor thinggy, then moved me to the heart floor...that's when things started to get interesting....late on Tuesday my Endo called for some additional testing and the crazy night doctor took it upon himself to order a CT, EKG, and other random tests...well...I spent most of the night getting these tests completed and getting blood work done, however, at 4:00am they decided I needed to be moved into ICU..let me tell you what that does to a person...total stress...I didn't understand why i was being moved and they kept saying it was no big deal...well, I'm not dumb, when they move you from a regular room to ICU, there's a problem somewhere...So after a very anxious night in ICU with words such as: Pulmonary Embolism, blood clots, arteries not working, HEART ATTACK...I was freaking out...and I'm not kidding, poor nurses, I couldnt grasp those concepts...so by 9 my real doctor came in...the first thing he said was "Why did they move you to ICU?" wish i knew the answer...he had gone over all the results with the radiologist and discovered that I had no real issues...just a swollen lymph node in my chest, probably caused by whatever infection that I had...and that my pulse had been high because I was incredibly dehydrated...so after thinking I was going to have to have heart surgery or die, I was very relieved. So they moved me out of ICU and onto the pediatric floor...left me alone while all the test results continued to come back in...finally I rested (they gave me a sleeping pill and left me be)...so I was released on Thursday and am back at work today...so crazy week.... Becky's wedding was this weekend, what a beautiful bride, i'm so happy for her and John! Now I wanna move to Kentucky to be close to them...lol Please pray for the Bopp family... |
