It occurred to me that none of you know what happened to me so here’s the sorry update.

On Monday, 7/21 I began to feel just horrible. All over body aches. Pain on one side. I just could not make it through the day.

By Wednesday I was worse, holding my left side and struggling with fevers off and on. Kidney stones. I’ve had surgery for them before so I upped my fluids, by a lot and hoped for the best.

By Friday, just a couple days later I was confined to bed, tossing and turning, could not get comfortable and the fever was back. I knew at this point that I needed a doctor but could not even stand.

I was so irritated because my daughter was coming home in a few days and I had stuff to do!

This pain in my side was DOZENS of stones and a major infection that put me in sepsis. Immediately admitted for surgery and IV antibiotics.

TWO days hospitalized. Get out, get home, implanted device falls out! Hospitalized a second time!! Another surgery!

Today, it is Friday and I was just discharged again. I have to take it super easy so that this device stays in and this infection goes on its merry way. I’m out of sepsis now but still taking antibiotics in pill form.

I’ve lost an entire week. To put some humor on this, at the shift change last night, one of the nurses walked past and did a double take.

“You, again?”

Ha. Sadly, yes.

So that’s where I’v been. Still recovering but alive.