It all started with a pain on my lung

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Hi all, especially newbies-this will help you, i woke up 1 morning with a pain on my left lung. Any strain whatsoever, anytime i'd move & especially when i would cough that pain would jab my lung. Then i began to have even more shortness of breath & couldn't not even get out of my room/bed. The final straw was that i started to cough & had to give myself breathing treatments & up o2. So i checked to see if i had fever-none..i'm in pain most of the time so it's hard to distinguish which is which..so while talking to Jan Pres of PFAT (texas) & as she heard me barely able to speak & cough she said CALL YOUR PULMO DR. She said the last time she had those symptoms she had pneumonia & was put in the hospital..Well, i called my Pulmo Dr. & said up your

prednisone, take breathg treatment every 4 hrs & if no change go straight ER sounds like pneuomia. So after a very long night & a day later called Pulmo dr. he said go straight to ER-we need chest xray. But because of my stubborness i 1st went to my PCP-i thought it would be quicker-they told me the same thing...they said,we don't even need an xray..just by looking @ you..you have pneumonia..nevertheless at your request-chest xray...so there i go ER-Pneumonia-i entered hospital Sat @ 1pm didnt get out til Wednesday 5pm day before Thanksgiving & have been recuperating ever since. It was so strange...i really didn't feel ill..so please, next time-anytime you feel anything wrong..just call the DR. better safe than sorry. So now i'm going on 3 weeks of stir crazinessness...how the days 7 weeks pass us by. The pain is gone-hallelujah, but oh the downside of coming down that prednisone & all the antibiotics they put into your

veins. My first night back, i though my ankles were gonna buckles, they were swollen & they ached as well as my joints on my knee caps. OUCH! Just wanted to share with you guys! I sure am eating like a pig..everything in sight! Do i breath or do i eat? Baby portions & lots of sweets later! Hey, but i was so thankful to be home for Thanksgiving, even if i was just at home! Now i'm dealing with the jitters that are slowly coming out of my system as the days of prednisone are lowered. It was also hard to sleep but again...just getting all back one day @ a time. I'm glad that i'm alive TODAY & that I can share this with you guys! Love ya keep posting! Ask away. Do you what the funny thing was about not wanting to call the dr or go to the hospital? My first excuse before was i don't have $$, but i don't have that excuse anymore, then then 2nd was i was so traumatized from my last stay in the hospital-that i never want to ever go to a

hospital again, but then I thought, it's Thanksgiving i don't want to be in the hospital during the holidays, i'll just wait. I have an appt with my pcp following week anyway. What a dummy! I could of died! And, thankfully, my dr was wonderful & tended to me daily as well as the nurses & staff @ the hospital! They really made me feel so welcome & took very good care of me!

I actually had peace being in the hospital. I guess in the newness of it all..i realized that when i get sick, i call the dr, i go to the hospital, they fix me then i go home & do as i'm told to take care of the problem and then i get better. Sorry for rambling but i hope this will help you too. Thanks Jan for your input-your wonderful!

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