That's My Story and I'm Stickin to It!

 Boy did I jinx myself with the title of my last post.  You can read it here:  What You Can Do  I was unable to do a thing this whole week.  I lost a week of my life!  

I have allergies, I'm around all the things that irritate them, but almost every August, I end up with sinusitis and sometimes laryngitis and sometimes bronchitis follows.  Well, that was looking like my path this year and I was doing so good not even sick since March of 2019 (which probably was Covid?).  Anyway, I did all my little tricks and it was still progressing.  So, I didn't want to, but I went to the urgent care/walk in center.  I left with some prescriptions for medicines, some I knew, but the antibiotic I didn't.  I also left with a follow up appointment on Thursday with my primary care.  Well, Thursday rolled around and I could hardly lift my head, I was so, so sick.  In fact, my husband had to take a 1/2 day so he could drive me.  Well, good thing he did, because we left that clinic and went the the ER.  Now, I bet your thinking I have Covid, EVERYONE as in professionals did.  I had 5 negative tests and 3 of those were way up the nose till my eyes watered.  Now this isn't an anti-Covid post.  Covid is real, unfortunately!  I know we need to be cautious, I just wanted to be better.  

This post is about my story.  And my story was, I trusted the professionals to care for me.  Well, ends up, that the urgent care antibiotic had extreme side effects that I just happen to be the lucky winner of being effected by all of them.  So, once I was hooked up to an IV, given fluids, had a chest CT scan, more Xrays, anti nausea IV drugs, heart monitor and an overnight stay, I'm home.  I'm still sick, but on a different antibiotic.  

I wish, I would have put the pieces of this together in light of my parent's heart issues.  It's like a connect the dots now.  I had a weight gain of over 5 pounds in less than 48 hours.  Trust me, it wasn't from eating.  I couldn't walk from car to office, from exam room to radiology, I was so winded and weak.  When they hooked me up to all the eqipment at the ER and my head and ears were ringing, my blood pressure was flashing red - it was the highest I've EVER seen for me.   It was, "say hello to the cardiac unit."  I knew I would end up here one day, but not today.  

So, if "that's my story and I'm stickin to it" - "what can you do?"  I love it when I can roll these little stories back to a full circle teehee.  What I CAN do is trust myself better, I should have said NO thank you to an antibiotic I didn't know.   I should have connected the dots and taken a more active roll in my health care.  Work towards steps in NOT taking another trip to the cardiac unit.  Oh, when I left there last night, the nurse was on from 7-7 and I saw very little of him all day, it was crazy.  He said to me, "thanks for being the most patient, patient today" that I CAN do too.  

I wasn't going to share all this, but I can't help it, I'm a 7.  

Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.