I’m not quite ready to face the world head-on yet, but I’m venturing out a bit. It’s been a rough road since Christmas as you can see.
After that last hospital stay and procedure I came home feeling not great, but better than before. The days are hazy and I can’t actually remember it all, which is probably for the best, my poor friends do remember it all and for that I’m sorry. I had an appointment with my doctor to have the stent removed; it’s a simple procedure in the office. I felt a little better most of the day, but by the end of the day I was feeling pain and really bad. By early evening I was in such pain that I was on my way back to the ER with my doctor sending orders to admit me immediately and surgery the following day.
It turns out, when the stent was pulled a large stone was lodged in my ureter causing complete blockage. I was throwing up, I was in such unimaginable pain. I had surgery the following day. There were so many problems with everything that happened and so many procedural issues and I suffered so much because of it.
I came away from the whole ordeal with fungal blood infection (sepsis) which caused some very scary moments.
I’m on the mend now, but I’m exhausted like I’ve never been before. I have blood pressure issues and am on medication; I just took my BP and it was 93/55 yet I’ll bet if I take it before bed, it will be very high. I’m on some insanely strong anti-biotic…but, I’m on the mend. Right?


