OK, so it's been a while since I posted, so I figure its about time for an update.
I'm feeling much better than I was when all this crap started, but I'm still not back up to my usual 90% (its been years since I was at 100%). Tomorrow will be a very long day. We'll be taking the three hour trip up to Gainseville for a CT scan, a bronchioscopy, and a visit with the doctor. The scan is scheduled for 8:20, so we'll need to leave home around 5 in the morning to make it on time. Theoretically we could have booked a hotel and gone up to stay tonight, but that would be worse because A) that means spending extra money, and B) I'm not going to get any sleep anyway in an unfamiliar bed and with all the nervous anticipation I'd be feeling, plus my dad snores like a beast. So its much better to just bear with leaving really early to get there. We have six oxygen tanks so I'll be able to stay on the O2 while I'm on the trip. Each tank lasts about 4 hours, so I suspect we'll end up using most of them.
So that's where things are at the moment. I'm going to feel so dead after tomorrow. -3-
UPDATE UPATE:
My luck sucks...
So, it looks like I have pneumonia, so I'm being kept in the hospital for a few days to go through some IV antibiotic treatment. We don't know yet whether or not this has anything to do with the old infection, so they took samples for testing. This is a pain in the ass, but hopefully in a few days I'll be better and able to go home.
I probably won't be on much, again. So, yeah.... F@#%&! -3-;
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE:
Got moved to the regular hospital floor yesterday, in my own private room. It's nice not having to share with someone, and a lot less people are going in and out here, so I was able to get more sleep last night.
So, it turns out it's not just pneumonia. I'm having a relapse of the same infection I had years ago. Apparently this bug is hard to completely get rid of and can come back, and it has in my case. I'm on the same antibiotic regimen as I was the first time. I'm not happy about the implications of all this though: I can't take antibiotics forever, in case the bug builds up resistance, but I also don't like the idea that I may have to deal with this situation yet again in the future. All I can do is be more active this time, to do more to build my lung health back up as a ways of strengthening against this. Although that's no guarantee...
So here I am for now. I'm hoping to get out soon, but unless they decide I can, I foresee being stuck here til early next week.
