Re: My saga continues...Oh my! : 0

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TexasMom,

OH MY! How awful for you! I am keeping you in my prayers for a speedy

recovery. DRINK as much WATER as possible to get your fluids back in

order. On the Water Cure for stomach problems, the doctor made

someone

drink water until about the 12th glass and his stomach ache subsided.

With deyhdration your body will ache like madd! DRINK UP DRINK UP!

Add a tsp of salt too. No kidding...it works! Also get your

electrolights back with gatoraide. It helps! Sending you healing

thoughts! What an ordeal! OH MY! : 0

Tij send healing thoughts big time!

> Hey everyone. You won't believe what happened this weekend. Here

I

> was last week posting that I feel like I'm making a full recovery

> from the pneumonia and looking forward to doing LL again this week

> when out of the blue on Sunday morning, I woke up at 6:30am with a

> bad headache and upset stomach. I then proceeded to have non-stop

> vomiting and diarreah for five, yes five, hours. I turned

completely

> gray and started crying because I couldn't understand what what

> happending to me and complete exhaustion and dehydration had set

in.

> My parents took me to the emergency room where there were people

> there over two hours. The waiting room was full. I threw up and

> almost fainted with the triage nurse. She then started pinching me

> and said I was severely dehydrated. All that combined with the

> existing pneumonia got me a ticket to a bed immediately. I swear I

> would have faked a seizure in the waiting room if I had to have

> waited. I honestly was at full exhaustion and beside myself. Of

> course, while waiting on a bed in triage, the entire emergency room

> started practically rioting because I was being waited on

> immediately, so I told my mom, if I survive, this, we'll have to

try

> to survive getting the to parking lot in one piece. Bottom line on

> the diagnosis is that the antibiotic is a derivative of one that I

> have been allergic to (vomiting) since I was a little girl. The

> doctor wanted me to try to this derviative called Biaxin XL when I

> was diagnosed with pneumonia two weeks ago because he said it's one

> of the best for it and to call if I had any reaction. Turns out I

> was having a reaction all along and it just took till day 13

instead

> of the first few days for me to finally build up such a large

amount

> of it that I started the vomiting. I was diagnosed with severe

> dehydration and gastro-entrsis? something to do with the bacteria

in

> my intestines being afected from this anti-biotic. They took a

chest

> x-ray to check my pneumonia which is almost entirely clear (good),

my

> lungs are clear (good) and working at about 95% capacity (good).

The

> doctor said weight loss is common during pneumonia but this

reaction

> to the antiboitic was not helping as I have probably been getting

> very little nutrition since on it for two weeks. They gave me

three

> bags of saline water which within five minutes returned the color

to

> my skin and aided tremendously with the headache and nausea and I

> have not been sick since. They did update my Ob-gyn about this

since

> and the ER doctor confirmed that he feels that I probably got the

> pneumonia from the surgery breathing tube and that in hospitals

there

> is always some kind airborne bacteria that some people get. They

> took a stoool sample to test for this but won't know for a few days

> or not. ER doctor confirmed with the doctor who diagnosed my

> penumonia that when I first went to a doctor a week after my

surgery

> with the cough and stuff that it was NOT an upper respitory

infection

> but pneumonia from the start (didn't take a chest x-ray first time)

> so I was going about my life with it for six weeks before

diagnosed.

> As you know during that time, my office moved and had the stress of

> helping my mom get situated with the new scope of the business. I

> feel weak today but and a bit queazy still but am on a clear liquid

> diet and a few bland foods to eat to get my stomach and intestines

> back in shape. I am on a new anti-biotic for ten days, Cipro. He

> did give me RX's for the diarreah and the nausea but have not had

> them filled as I don't feel the need for them as both have them

have

> basically ceased.

>

> I have to say that I thank God for giving me my life and for

allowing

> me the opportunity to live on this earth and for the time I have

with

> my daughter. Psycologically, I will admit, this has done a number

on

> me because the pneumonia itself was such a blow and I felt so

> victimized by it because I got it innocently from a minor surgery.

> Then I feel so good about being over it and BOOM this happened on

> Sunday and I just completely broke down in my step-dad's arms

sobbing

> that I don't know what's wrong with me and I don't know why this is

> happening to me and that I was scared. I had the worst time

sleeping

> last night because I realized just how much danger I have been in

and

> the thought of me leaving my daughter puts me in a panic.

>

> Those of you who know me from my past posts know the nut I am and

how

> energetic and positive and goofy I always am so I know you know how

> horrible things have been for me since the end of July. I thank

you

> all for your prayers and your love. For those of you new to the

> board since end of July, just let me say that LL is wonderful and

> these friends are true friends. I really look forward to getting

to

> know all the newbies and having you know who I really am.

>

> I'm off to rest but wanted to check in so you all wouldn't worry.

> Ube, thanks for breathing for me. Keep it up for me. Love to all.