I Might Live

I seriously doubted it there for a while, though. While I think I might live, I still feel like death warmed over.

My niece asked for the kids to spend the night Friday night AND Saturday night, so I said “Sure!”. Hubby and I went to a singing Friday night and by 9:30pm I was ready to go home. It was hot in there and I was freezing, my chest and back were hurting and I wanted a bed.

I had been sore all day, but didn’t think anything of it since the kids and I had been in the pool a lot. I just figured I pulled a muscle or something.

Saturday at 1:00pm I was ready for the Urgent Care Clinic since my doctor is closed on the weekend.

I get to Urgent Care and explain that I had 102 fever at midnight the night before and it had been 100/101 since then. My chest and back hurt, I’m coughing…I felt like I had the flu. The only reason I doubted it was the flu was for the fact my oldest just got over Atypical Pneumonia and she said the same thing, “I feel like I have the flu”.

Urgent Care wanted to rule out a problem with my heart because my lungs sounded clear to them. Off to the ER I go for an EKG…just to be safe, they said. Yeah, by now my chest is REALLY hurting. Scared the shit out of me.

Two hours, blood work, EKG and chest x-rays later, I find out my heart is good. And I have Atypical Pneumonia…what I figured I had to begin with.

This is the first time I’ve had Pneumonia of any kind and I pray to God it’s the last. I hurt so bad. I’ve never been so thankful that I had already quit smoking as I have this weekend.

Cindy
also wishes she could get some sleep