Memorial Day Weekend..

(I can never seem to get a clear picture, but i guess at least I get one)

This was a good weekend cause it was memorial day and everyone had it off.. So they came down to see me.. My dad came this morning and we went to eat breakfast downstairs.. I was kinda impressed on their food in the morning.. I got full and it tasted good.. wow!!

We came back to my room and just chatted for a while until it was time for him to go..

I took a little nap and the next thing i know my baby girl Daizy jumped on my bed.. It was so cute.. Ziggy came in right behind her and was very vocal.. he was growling but it's not a mean growl it's like a doggy talk that he does just to introduce himself.. It's funny nut annoying.. I want to kick him in the but sometimes.. Oh well what can you do..

I wanted to go out side and play with them but it was raining and cold, so we just stayed inside my room and played. Ordered pizza.. It was good, fettuccine chicken Alfredo with white sauce.. Yummy.. We just chilled after we ate and then it was time for them to go.. So my busy weekend calmed down.. I hate it when my company has to leave. I get so bored.. Hopefully I get to go home soon.. I will have a better idea tomorrow probably.. I do feel better all around, so we will see..

The Weekend

Today has been a quiet day.. I have slept most of it.. I'm just really tired so i know that's what my body needs so I let it sleep as long as it needs to.. I am going to have a good day tomorrow my home town friends are coming down to see me.. The original plan was we were going to hang out at my house (cause I was supposed to be out of this joint) and have a grand time just hanging out.. They are great friends that they will come even though I am back in the joint.. God I love them all!!

Just thought I would let you all know that i am feeling better as the days go by.. I'm not sure an how long I will be in this time.. But I do know that I will not leave till I feel absolutely safe to be home with out 2E care..

Everyone have a great weekend and be extra safe please.. Love you all!!

Not what I was planning

My 2 weeks in the joint were up, and I thought I felt good enough to go home.. So I checked out on Wed afternoon.. Chad came and picked me up. We went home and enjoyed the outside life.. It was a rainy day so we just stayed in and watched movies.. I felt really tired that evening so I took a nap.. Well I woke up not feeling to good, I just thought it was cause I was so relaxed from being home.. As the night went on I just couldn't get comfy. Just a restless night overall.. Not to mention a long night too, cause I could not fall asleep..

Daylight finally came and I just felt like crap.. I was coughing a ton of junk up, my lungs just felt like sand paper.. I knew something was not right.. It seemed to be getting worse as the day went on.. I called clinic and they said to come up immediately.. So put my bags back in the car and Chad drove me up..

We came directly to my room.. When I got here my heart rate was 165 and I had a fever.. One minute I was freezing the next I was hot and all wet from sweating so much.. They Drew a blood gas as soon as I got here to check my carbon dioxide level.. The guy that drew it I almost had to punch.. I have never had a blood gas draw hurt like that.. I think he was trying to show off for his little tag along that was with him.. In fact I had to drop the F bomb a few times.. He was just a joke..

After we got my IV accessed i fell asleep for a few hours.. My heart calmed down and my fever went away.. They were drawing blood cultures till 2 in the morning.. However I don't remember those late draws cause I was so tired I blocked them right out..

No word yet on the cultures.. Come on get them done already I want to know what was going on.. I am already feeling better so hopefully we can kick whatever I got right out of my system.

It's now my second night back and things are starting to fall back into routine.. So I shall get to sleep and I hope everyone has a great weekend..

Week 2

So I have been at the joint for 2 weeks now.. I feel very good other than my tender ribs.. I made it outside today.. Get some of that Vit D.. I think I will stay a few more days just to make sure I am stable enough to go home..
Chad brought me up some bucks to fuel my body.. YUMMY!! Thanks Brother.. Its been a good day.. Went to rehab and that went real good, my heart rate was great along with my O2 level.. Gosh its good to be on the uphill side again..
My friends poor lil dog got beat up by a neighborhood dog and broke his lil rib.. Poor lil Prince Keester.. He will be okay with some help of drugs and a lil TLC..

I hope to get a picture of my new shirt.. I love it, and I know you will to when you see it.. Either tonight or tomorrow I will get it on here..

For now I hope everyone has a good night.. Love you all..

Part III the final catch up

Okay my goal in this entry is to get all caught up to the date.. Hold on where did I leave off??



Oh yah.. So everyone came back with a full belly after lunch/dinner.. By this time I was stabilized as good as could be.. So I sat up in bed and we just talked for a couple of hours.. Talked to some of my Dr's about what was going on.. Simply a fracture is all they can say.. I knew my bones were weak but good hell not that weak.. COUGH COUGH=BREAK BREAK of the ribs..

It was getting late so my parents had to head home.. Chad came up shortly before they were getting ready to leave.. So he took over the shift for a while.. lol We both were getting real tired so chad went home and I feel asleep.

Tuesday I woke up sore so as soon as I did my treatments and ate breakfast I fell right back asleep.. I slept most of that day except at the scheduled time for my pulmonary rehab.. I wanted to at least go do something to try to keep the rest of my body strong as can be..



I Just hung out in my room for the rest of the week.. I still can go to rehab just have to be careful.. I get more sore if I overdue my workout.. It bugs cause my goal is to stay as strong as I can but in order to do that I have to pay the price of a lil pain.. I am strong enough that I am willing to pay for a lil pain.. This is only a small glimpse of the beginning.. I am more than ready for it to continue too..


Nothing event full really happend the rest of the week until the weekend.. It was mothers day.. My Grama and my Dad came up for a visit.. It was fun we ate allot of goodies and went on a couple of walks.. Or the correct term I should use is a couple of rides.. Since I ride in the wheel chair.. lol


Sunday night I did not sleep well at all.. So that left me very tired Monday.. All I wanted to do is sleep the whole day.. What a vicious cycle.. Sleep all day and then lay awake all night.. UUGG!!


I was able to do my PFT"s Wednesday.. Surprisingly they were back up to my base line.. I was pleased with the results, considering the rough week that I had had before. My weight however has not changed a lbs.. At least I have not lost!! I am still in the 100's.. My goal is to never fall below 100.. I have been able to accomplish that for 5 months now.. YEAH!!


My mom came down Wednesday night cause we had a meeting about transplant recovery and my care taker (whom she is). It was scheduled for 9:30 Thursday morning.. She spent the night with me, we ate a good dinner and watched a movie, and just chatted the night away.. Mom woke up fairly early. I didn't even know she was awake until I quietly heard a voice ask her if she would like some coffee.. That voice was Steve, my RT.. He has such a great heart for everyone.. He is like the father of our unit.. He needs some kind of an award for his level of care.. So we went to the meeting only to find out that the speaker didn't show up or send any materials so anyone else could teach the class.. So the class had to be re-scheduled.. We still had a very interesting group chat anyway.. Mom stayed for lunch and went home at 3.. We had a real good time together..

I had a pretty quiet weekend.. A few friends came up for a visit.. Nothing real event full went on.. Just the process of healing is the main thing I am focused on..

I hope I didn't leave anything important out.. If I did I will tell you next entry.. Other than that I hope everyone had a great weekend.. It was such nice weather out.. I think it may finally be coat free weather..

Part II: Long Time Gone

After I got settled in everyone went home to catch some sleep for themselves.. I watched TV for a while and slept the rest of the night.. I woke up fairly early cause I couldn't sleep through the side ache.. I was just getting through second treatment of the day and all of the sudden I went to move and my side hurt so freaking bad.. I told my therapist Steve that something was not right I couldn't breathe.. I started to hyper ventilate and that lead to a panic attack which lead to the uncontrollable cry you cant catch your breath in the first place.. UUGG!! So my first reaction was to call my mom.. Well that's kinda hard to do when you cant talk cause there is so much stuff going on, so I handed the phone to Steve and he explained to mom what was going on.. In the meanwhile Steve was placing the O2 meter on my finger to see where my oxygen was at.. In the corner of my eye I saw 58.. Whoa 58 that's like unconscious numbers I thought.. I guess a body can hold up to more than we think or expect it to..
After about a half hour of calming down I fell asleep on the Bipap machine.. (a little mask that goes over your nose to help you breathe) I just slept away for a couple of hours till I woke up to mom And Ellis coming into my room.. I remember them walking in and setting down and the look on my moms face.. That was the first emergency call from the hospital that she has ever had.. And she lives 2 hours away so you can imagine the drive down waiting to see what the crap was really going on..
I woke up a little more so I could actually talk to mom and Ellis.. They chatted for a while and I told them it was okay they could go down stairs and eat.. They both were starving and had not eaten since early morning..

Long Time Gone..

Where do I start oh my this may take a couple of entries to catch up on all the action.. So I left you all hanging by explaining that I just couldn't get feeling better and it was continuing to get worse..
So on Wed the 30th I went to clinic and the pain that I was having in both lower lobes was claimed as pleurisy pains.. So I just went home on pain meds to get me through the weekend.. I had scheduled to come back to clinic on the following Wed and I was planning on coming in for the normal 2 weeks.. By Friday i was thinking maybe I should call and go in on Monday.. Well By Sunday I knew for sure I was going to go in on Monday.. So I called first thing in the morning to get in..
As I was packing my bags Monday I was reaching to get my shirt and something popped and it hurt like mad.. I knew there was no way that I was going to try to drive myself to the hospital so I called my friend CJ and she was not around so I told Chad that he was the one on dutie.. Luckily he was off from work doing errands.. So he was right there.. In the middle of chad picking me up Cj had received my message and had called me back.. I told her Chad was there so she just decided to meet us up at the hospital..
I hurt to bad to do my pft's so I just got sent right up to my room.. My friends stayed all day and just made sure I was getting settled in okay..


Well i need to go lay down cause I'm kinda hurting so I will finish when I wake up..