That ran over me?!! Funny how life is just swinging along, singing a song and then BAM! Some thing jumped on board my body and the rest is history!!
I was going about my usual routine. Worked all day Thursday, had Friday off and then back to work Saturday. Other than having some residual headache from quitting my Coca Cola habit cold turkey, I was feeling fine. Sunday the girls were busy playing Wii, Daddy was busy watching football and I decided to take a couple of naps. One long nap in the morning and then another in the afternoon. Dishes were caught up, laundry too. Until Sunday night when I started having the fever and chills and nausea...I had been doing great up until that point! BAM!! By 10:30pm I had a fever of 103.5 and was feeling pretty abused. Daddy kept wanting me to call the ambulance to take me to the hospital and I kept telling him that I would probably be told that I have a 24 hour bug that just needs to run it's course. Fast forward to Monday AM and now my temperature is 104.7 and I am dry heaving. Okay, my doctor tells my husband to take me directly to the ER....no stopping!!
So....now I have a much greater perspective of what it feels like to be a patient with pneumonia! And oh no! I can't just go in for a quick patch me up and sent me home visit. I had to stay there from Monday afternoon till Saturday afternoon!!
Then as much as I was excited to come home and sleep in my own bed....there were things that I missed about the hospital. It just sucks to lay in bed and need something and the only way you are going to get it is get up and get it yourself! Call lights are a very nice thing to have when you are as weak as a kitten!!
However, after the first week and one half home, I am glad to say that I am slowly regaining my strength. I will have to admit that I am a pansy! Two women that I work with both came down with pneumonia and they were working through their pain. Gotta love them, they are much younger than I am and I just did not feel like pushing myself to go back to work before my body was up to it.
So I am slowly trying to build up my stamina and strength to be able to go back to work. I am happy that I can finally make it all the way up the stairs without stopping to catch my breath half way up. This is a major accomplishment!
In the meantime, Tessa had her sedated MRI of her heart. The verdict was: really not anything seen on the MRI that the 3 D echo had not already shown them. So the pediatric cardiologist will visit with her colleges and let us know what their recommendations are. Tessa continues to do absolutely amazing! Her weak spot is reading, but I can't imagine what it would be like to learn one language and then all of a sudden switch to a completely different one!
She also had a dentist appointment last week. Two cavities! Today she went in and had them filled and she did great! They used the nitrous oxide on her and it put her right to sleep! She wanted to do an impromptu photo shoot for me the other day. She kept running around to different areas in the living room and would demand, "Taka picture Mom!" So I obliged! She is just cute as a button!!
I love the one where Oreo's tail is in her face!! Funny how much she loves the critters in our house now. Not too long ago she was petrified of them....now she can't get enough of them!!
