Log inMerry Christmas Everyone. I hope all your wishes come true.
Things here are not so good atm. Starting with my wifes car broken down which really hurts us as it is our main transportation for things like my doctors and such. A couple weeks ago we had a snowstorm here and yeah I fell and fell hard. I ended up in the emergency room. A cat scan later and they "said" it was some really badly bruised ribs. Gave me some pain meds and sent me on my way.
During this time my lovely wife brough a really bad cough/cold into the house. My immune system is garbage due to my health issues and medications so I am guaranteed to catch anything and I did. So here I am already in pain from my ribs and now coughing really hard.... I also had not noticed a very important medication was missing. The pharmacy dropped the ball on my auto refill and did not send my water pills. Mind you I am on a lot of meds so missing one is easy.
Fast forward to last week and I am in agony from my coughing and my ribs... I am also starting to have a really hard time breathing. I had to go in to have some blood work done. The walk from the parking lot to the office I thought I was going to die. My wife and daughter went with me but stayed in the truck. Once inside they brought me to the room for blood draws and I was done..... This is in one wing of the hospital. They said I need to get tot he ER and one of the nurses grabbed a wheel chair and rushed me to the other side of the building.
They called my wife and told her where I was and she showed up right after they took me in. I ended up stripped and sent to the cat scan rom again and they also took xrays. Tip of the iceburg. All my coughing broke a rib that they didn't see cracked. So that was problem #1. Not enough to make it so I can't breath at all so they looked me all over and asked if I was supposed to take water pills. I said I noticed I was out the other day and am waiting on them. Well I was in congestive heart failure hence not being able to breath. They had some new kid in there and her tried to put a IV in my arm and failed. I have a huge bruise from my elbow to my wrist. Needless to say they did not let me go home and I spent three days in the hospital. They did a MRI, EKG and echocardiogram before they would let me go home. They also asked about my weight loss. In the time from the first ER visit to this one I lost 20 pounds... That is only 10 days to lose that much and they are now making me check my weight every day.
As of right now my wife has me under house arrest. I am not allowed to leave the house or do much of anything till I am healed. Needless to say Christmas is canceled for us. Dead car. Almost dead me and no money to do a damn thing. I also attached a photo I took of the sunrise over St. Louis from my 4th floor cardiac room. Sorry for the long post. I really am not a social media person but I really need to be. I do hope you all have a merry christmas and a happy new year.
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During this time my lovely wife brough a really bad cough/cold into the house. My immune system is garbage due to my health issues and medications so I am guaranteed to catch anything and I did. So here I am already in pain from my ribs and now coughing really hard.... I also had not noticed a very important medication was missing. The pharmacy dropped the ball on my auto refill and did not send my water pills. Mind you I am on a lot of meds so missing one is easy.
Fast forward to last week and I am in agony from my coughing and my ribs... I am also starting to have a really hard time breathing. I had to go in to have some blood work done. The walk from the parking lot to the office I thought I was going to die. My wife and daughter went with me but stayed in the truck. Once inside they brought me to the room for blood draws and I was done..... This is in one wing of the hospital. They said I need to get tot he ER and one of the nurses grabbed a wheel chair and rushed me to the other side of the building.
They called my wife and told her where I was and she showed up right after they took me in. I ended up stripped and sent to the cat scan rom again and they also took xrays. Tip of the iceburg. All my coughing broke a rib that they didn't see cracked. So that was problem #1. Not enough to make it so I can't breath at all so they looked me all over and asked if I was supposed to take water pills. I said I noticed I was out the other day and am waiting on them. Well I was in congestive heart failure hence not being able to breath. They had some new kid in there and her tried to put a IV in my arm and failed. I have a huge bruise from my elbow to my wrist. Needless to say they did not let me go home and I spent three days in the hospital. They did a MRI, EKG and echocardiogram before they would let me go home. They also asked about my weight loss. In the time from the first ER visit to this one I lost 20 pounds... That is only 10 days to lose that much and they are now making me check my weight every day.
As of right now my wife has me under house arrest. I am not allowed to leave the house or do much of anything till I am healed. Needless to say Christmas is canceled for us. Dead car. Almost dead me and no money to do a damn thing. I also attached a photo I took of the sunrise over St. Louis from my 4th floor cardiac room. Sorry for the long post. I really am not a social media person but I really need to be. I do hope you all have a merry christmas and a happy new year.
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hope you are ok