2011 year of sickness!!

Back in March my family got sick. First my son, then my husband and then my daughter. I was kinda lucky because I'm usually the first to go down with sickness. My immune system sucks and if someone sneezes on me I usually get sick and that's how bad I am. I'm surprised I'm not a germaphobe and maybe I should be.

A couple of days after my daughter had the flu I started feeling under the weather. My husband had to work from home because I couldn't get myself out of bed. I finally convinced myself to see a Doctor because something wasn't quite right and I new it so there I was in Urgent Care on a nice Saturday afternoon being seem by a Doctor. Nothing the Doctor could do for me but give me some prescriptions for comfort and sent me on my merry way.

The following day I woke up for Church and I couldn't get out of bed. I felt like someone was stabbing me in my back. Later that day I made my husband call the advice nurse of what I can do and from the symptoms I was experiencing she told me to go to the Emergency Room.

That Sunday night I was admitted for dehydration with  Influenza B. I stayed in the Hospital for 3 days. 9 days later I was admitted back into the Hospital for Bacterial Pneumonia and I stayed for 3 days. 2 days later I was back into the Hospital because the pneumonia got worse and this time I had a blood transfusion and lung surgery after a 10 day stay. 2 weeks later I was back into the Hospital for another 9 days.  Total of 25 days in the Hospital from March 20th to May 7th.

Since then I've been in and out of Urgent Care or the Emergency room for various problems several times. This last time on my way home from my vacation the RN had a hard time finding any good veins in my arms to use for the IV's because I've had so many IV's in my arms they can't take anymore abuse.

I'm not complaining because I know friends and family members who have gone through much worse then me. They are the one's who I think about when I'm dealing with my own medical problems. It gives me understanding that no matter how bad it is for me someone in this world is going through something worse. I'm just getting tired and hopefully someone in the medical profession can figure out what is wrong with me and why I have so many medical problems.

So I decided I'm going to be a germaphobe and if you see someone walking down the road in a hazmat suit with two little kids in tow then that's me. Have a nice day!!