Alrighty, so this has been an incredibly eventful week! First was the CF Walk that was amazing and super fun. Then that night I got sick and wound up in the hospital on Wednesday. It all happened so fast! I didn’t want to mess around for a week or so on oral antibiotics and end up in here anyways, so I just skipped that step. Then I found out that I am getting a new car when I get out of here. So even though it sucks being stuck in the hospital and being sick, it’s actually been an incredibly eventful week!
I already made a post about the CF Walk, so check that out if you haven’t read it yet! Anyways, I spent Sunday night, Monday, and Tuesday feeling very sick with a very bad cold or flu or something. So I made an appointment for Wednesday because I am going on vacation in a couple of weeks and I don’t want to miss that. I really need a break and relaxation after the stress of college, which means that I need to be healthy to have fun on vacation!!! So I got admitted to the hospital for a “tune-up”. This stay is going really well too.
On top of that healthy excitement, I am buying a new car finally! My last car was such a headache and I have now been borrowing cars from family for the last 5 or 6 months. It is going to feel really good to have a car that I know won’t be breaking on me every other week and that I can call my own. I am so excited and glad that the process of getting everything settled is going so smoothly. Especially since I was in the process of buying the car when I got admitted, so that obviously got delayed a little. The worst part about that was calling the sellers and letting them know why there was a delay on me buying the car. I never know what to say to strangers about me being in the hospital. I want to be informative, but I always dread that “Oh my gosh, are you ok???” I never know how to answer that question, like “don’t worry, this is a totally normal thing”. So then I just leave it at that because I don’t want to go into the whole long story of what’s wrong with me and all that to a complete stranger. It’s pretty exhausting. So that was my only trouble with that.
Annnddddd… the last and most exciting bit is that I rushed into the hospital because I get to leave on vacation soon! If I messed around on the oral antibiotics for a couple of weeks, then I would’ve ended up here anyways except sicker and during my vacation. So I wasn’t going to allow that to happen. So I made some quick decisions and got admitted only a couple days after I got sick. I think it turned out to be a good choice. I am going to be so healthy for my road trip. I am so excited to go hiking and camping and go to concerts. It is going to be so much fun and it is going to be really nice to actually have the health and stamina to do it all! Don’t worry. I will post about my awesome adventures when I get back!
The only bad thing that this visit brought up was that I am going to need to get a Medi-port some time this summer. During my last admission I got a clot from the PICC line that I get every time I am admitted. For those of you that don’t know, a PICC is basically a long-term IV that goes in my arm. So that’s a little bit scary to think that I have gotten to that point. In my head it was only really sick people that got those, so I dunno what that makes me. I’m definitely not as healthy as I used to be and that’s something that I am constantly trying to adjust to. I guess this is just another thing that I’ll be adjusting to!
So that’s all for now folks. My next few posts are going to be covering some of the awesome staff members here at Froedtert hospital that do such a wonderful job taking care of me. 🙂
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