Saturday, November 12, 2011

Pneumonia anyone??

So I have pneumonia. Three weeks ago I went to Idaho for fall break and got the flu. I had body aches and a fever on an off for the following week, but couldn't stay home because we had parent teacher conferences and our school Halloween carnival. From lack of rest, I began to feel worse and developed a cough that wouldn't go away. I was having chest pains when I coughed and couldn't catch my breath and had a fever of 102, so I went into the emergency room on Tuesday, November 1 and after three hours and a bunch of tests I found out it was pneumonia!!! I went home with an antibiotic, a doctor's note saying I couldn't work for 4 days, and orders to drink lots of liquid and get lots of rest. It might sound nice to be ordered to rest and sleep, but it's almost impossible with pneumonia because I've been coughing non stop. My stomach muscles were so sore and if I ever did get a chance to sleep I had to be sitting up, which was miserable for me because I hate sleeping on my back anyway. I went back to school on Monday the 7th, and it's been nice to be doing something again, but I come home from school exhausted!!! I'm slowly feeling a little better, but being outside makes me cough and I'm still struggling to sleep. Word on the street is that it takes around a full month to finally feel completely better. So maybe until then I'll continue to keep up on all my TV shows and maybe even blog more :) Wish me luck!