A missing month

Well friends...I've got to be honest. It hasn't been my greatest month of all. August was fraught with illness and that is just no fun. A couple of weeks ago I started having an asthma attack that wasn't responding to my albuterol. After 24 hours or so, I finally decided to go to the ER (it was Saturday before urgent cares were open) because I really couldn't breathe and my whole body hurt.  They found nothing wrong except that I couldn't breathe and even then, my lungs sounded good to the doctor. Apparently, I don't wheeze very much when I have asthma attacks. My bronchioles just constrict and you can't hear it. But I can feel it.  So the doc sent me home with orders to come back if this that and the other happened.

By Sunday night/Monday morning this that and the other had all happened.  I had a fever that peaked at 102.3 and I still couldn't breathe. So, feeling like a complete idiot, I went back to the ER. The doc thought that I had pneumonia (didn't surprise me, it's happened before) because she could hear it, but everything came back normal. Ironically, I had had a chest x-ray just the week before because I had a positive TB test. Then another one on Saturday, so she tried to avoid a third x-ray for the week, but with all the blood work normal, she wanted to see my lung.  Apparently it looked clear, but she treated me for pneumonia. Long week.  I basically went between bed and the floor to do crafts for 1 week straight. The next week I worked some, but was wasted at the end of the day.

Insert a more normal week until this Thursday. So, on my list of things to do while I am 27, I included rollerblading.  I used to go with my brothers and I loved it. So I thought it would be great to start again. Unfortunately, I chose a particular part of a path that I was not familiar with and I fell (twice) and hit my head (twice) [note....because I'm a genius so I decided to keep going after the first try] and thanks to a fabulous good Samaritan I went to the ER, but not in an ambulance. I'm rather glad he was there because I was kind of disoriented, but I wouldn't have called an ambulance so I would have tried to drive to the ER.  That could have been a catastrophe.  So a CT scan, ibuprofen and acetaminophen with codeine later, I patient waited while someone...(after a long list of calls and texts) could come and pick me up. That was last Thursday. I'm doing much better now, but still a little sore in the head and the back.  At least I've been able to wean some of the NSAIDS. I am afraid I won't have any of my stomach left after this month because I've taken so many with both incidents!!

So there's where I have been.  Next post will be some pictures of the crafting I'm doing. I decided to make Christmas gifts for everyone in the family. It's crazy really, but I'm loving it. Pintrest is my new best friend. I love the ideas I find there.

Shout out for the kind man named Chris who I never saw before, but not only found me on the asphalt, but walked me back to my car to get my stuff, drove me to the ER, then waiting with me until he was able to make sure that I gave them an accurate history (I was out of it). I hope to be able to find him and thank him for real. He was a certainly a blessing!!

Hope you all had a much better August than mine!!

This si the awesome hole in my pants from the fall(s). It was rather large. Fortunately not right on my seat, but I was showin some nice skin on my thigh as I stumbled into the ER.