Trials Into Testimonies

When your tests become testimony...Alhamdulillah.   This is where I was Tuesday:

No covid, but I am on a covid unit because I have rhinovirus. Apparently rhinovirus affects regular people just like a cold, but for people with severe asthma or copd, it's been attacking their lungs exactly like covid, and they've been seeing a rise in deaths. They have also seen an increase in dual infections with people with severe asthma and copd...they have been presenting with both covid and rhinovirus. 

Thankfully, I have tested negative for covid, but the rhinovirus is hitting my lungs very hard. It basically keeps them inflamed and seems to make them resistant to the usual medical treatment. They have already sat with me and had the conversations regarding my "choices", should it come to that...do I want to be resuscitated,  do I want to be intubated if I can no longer breathe on my own, who my medical proxy is in the event that i can no longer make my medical choices for myself.  

They also found that due to working so hard from the asthma, my heart is now leaking proteins, so they are concerned that I am close to having a heart attack.

In full disclosure..only a few of you know..but about 3 weeks ago..my doctors also discovered that I have a mass in my lung, in addition to some smaller nodules.  I am assured that we are going to follow up on this, but also that as a non smoker..my risks are very small for lung cancer.   GOD got this y'all!  Besides, HE ain't ready for me AND Aja's foolishness up in the same place again, lol.

Like I said..all of this was Tuesday..Now its Friday and here comes the Testimony...I'm breathing on my own again...Alhamdulillah!  And the leak in my heart has stopped for now.  We will follow up on that.  So ya girl is going home today ❤  I'll be on full bedrest for a few days, as I still get too winded standing up or walking..and I'll be on breathing treatments every 2-4 hours..but I can do it from home.  Thank You so much to everyone who has prayed over me, called, message, texted, left comments, etc.. I've seen them all and I have so much gratitude.  Thank You.  I Love You

So We Just Gon Pretend Like That Didnt Happen?

So, almost 2 weeks ago, I was in the ER with a bad asthma attack and the nurse said she was putting some magnesium in my iv.  Almost immediately (like within 60 seconds) I told her I felt like I was about to pass out..my eyes started rolling around in my head like a pinball machine literally..I could feel them.  And I swear on my children..it felt like my head swelled up to the size of a watermelon and was still swelling...She threw the bars up on the stretcher and started screaming for help and started yelling some codes.  A bunch of people rushed in.  My head was spinning so hard inside, I could hear it..it was painful...I had people holding my body down on the stretcher because I was jerking up off of it.  I just kept screaming that something didn't feel right and I didnt like how it felt..it felt like when I had my stroke before.  I honestly thought I was dying on the table.  I heard them say they were going to give me 2 medications thru my iv which should help.  And then, my body just got really heavy..my head was super heavy..I couldn't control my eyes from rolling around in my head though...they just kept doing it.  And then all of a sudden, my whole face, my hands and my feet all started having severe what do you call it...that pin prickly feeling?  Super painful.  like from the forearms down to my fingertips.  I kept telling them that, but then all of a sudden, my tongue felt very swollen, and I could not speak any longer.  It felt like my tongue was too thick.  My head still felt swollen.  I just laid there like that...just DRAINED and in pain for probably over an hour.  The nurse says to me that my body was just tired from fighting to breathe for so long and had a reaction :/  

So, two days later, I'm still inpatient and wondering why they still havent done any sort of testing, questioning, etc, so I'm talking to the Dr on the floor before I leave, to follow upon it and see if I  need to have some neuro testing or what...and the Dr is like HUH?  There was ZERO mention of any of the entire incident in my chart.  Nothing.  Okay..Sooooo....we just gon pretend that it didnt happen?  Nurse didnt make one notation about any of it.  The possible seizure ( I had epilepsy as a child up until my early adulthood and then again during each pregnancy..I know what seizures can look like) or reaction to something that was possibly erroneously injected into the iv...never mentioned. *shrug*  I guess I'll never know 

Lisa's Hospital Adventures

Long post ahead.  Soooo..Thursday morning, the boys were supposed to go to their first dental appointment, an appointment that I'd literally waited months for by the way.  And as soon as I woke up, I knew I was gonna have to get to the doctor.  

My asthma had been escalating for a few days, but controlled with inhalers and nebulizers...but as soon as I woke up, I was like NOPE, I'm gonna need some prednisone.  My Dr is very pro-active because he knows my asthma and how severe it can quickly get, so he has told me anytime the asthma starts flaring up, come to the office as a walk in, and he will order me some prednisone.  In and out.  SOOOO I get there.  They see me pretty quickly..within 15 minutes.  My Dr is not in, but that's no biggie.  The nurse brings me back, hears me wheezing across the room and goes to get a nebulizer.  I do a treatment.  She listens.  Goes for the supervising doctor.  He tells her to get me 60 mg of prednisone and another nebulizer setup.  I do another treatment.  They come back, tell me they are calling an ambulance and that from now on..go directly to the ER when my asthma flares up.  Ambulance comes..ambulance driver recognizes me from the 2 other times she has transported me from the dr office to the ER for the same thing.  Says..girl...from now on..skip the steps and just call the ambulance from home.  I'm trying to explain that I dont like to abuse ambulance or Emergency Room usage..I try to start with my dr office, but she was like..looka here girl...we are doing this every other month, it's not abuse..your asthma goes hard and you cant be out taking your time.

Soooo..get to the E.R.  Its busy as usual, so they put me in the asthma bay (a set of like 3 chairs with oxygen hookups next to them in the hall)  Sat there on a neb for maybe 40 minutes.  Then they decided they needed to get some magnesium in me via iv (it helps with asthma attacks or something) but my veins are shot due to so many hospitalizations.  So 4 sticks later, they call in a specialist..he gets it in literally about 45 seconds, but it's in my inner elbow sideways, so I have to keep my arm ramrod straight until I am discharged.  Then the dr asks me how I'm feeling.  I say I'm much better and that I know my asthma and this isnt a bad attack and I can handle it at home, and  they told me I was being admitted and they put me into one if the ER "rooms" (gurney and chair with curtains around it) Im sitting there like...wtf did you ask me for then????  There I sat..phone chargerless, tv less, foodless, drinkless) from 12-5.  I think the nurse came in maybe 3x..2 of them to give me nebs.  No pillow, no sheet, no water...hell, they didnt even give me a damn gown to put on, lol.  Finally at 5, they brought me upstairs to a room.

Nurse comes in, gets my vitals, starts a neb, does the whole 50 questions..and leaves.  I'm STILL sitting in my street clothes in a damn bed I'm supposed to sleep in.  I was in the room for 2 HOURS before I finally got someone to give me a damn gown!!  

So now I'm sitting here and all of a sudden, my stomach gets to cramping.  But not like..little cramps..like..I was about to give birth cramps.  They were coming like every 4-5 minutes.  I'm like..omg, I'm gonna be sick.  My face was burning hot, I was sweating..I was starting to do the rock.  Oooh lawd....This was not gonna be pretty.  And I'm not on a private floor.  I had a private room, but this floor has shared bathrooms.  Like 8 rooms share each bathroom.  And I am a VERY shy bathroom user.  I cant go outside my house.  But it was about to be drama.  And then I look up.  WHYYYY did this woman get brought up and admitted to the room next to the bathroom and she was under police guard and they were the 2 sexiest biiiiiig beautiful brothas in uniform ever??  I was like..oh wtf..now I KNOW I cant go to the damn bathroom!!!  When I tell ya'll,  I called that nurse and asked for some maalox so quick!!  I BET you, I never went to the bathroom the whole night!!  P.S.  Apparently,  a very upset stomach and severe cramping is a side effect of iv magnesium.  

Rest of the night was uneventful.  Oh wait..they did have to come in and start some kind of fluids in my iv all night because my heart was going too fast for too long and wasnt slowing down.  Nebs every 4 hours and a good nights sleep without dem babies.  My nurse brought me a charger, so I was able to charge my phone all night.  I was awake by like 4 something this morning.  Dr came in at maybe 9:30 and says..how are you feeling?  I say, I feel great, other than my throat being blown from all the nebs ( it's a side effect)  I said I told the dr yesterday that I didnt think I needed to be admitted.  He laughs and says...you shoulda said it more forcefully.  He tells me that I'm discharged but it will take a while.  No problem, I'm used to that discharge wait.  I settle in and watch Law n Order SVU.  Around 12, the nurse brings me my discharge papers.  But tells me she wants me to wait for lunch.  I'm like..is it about to come?  I'm thinking...maybe she just assumes my fat ass is hungry.  So I wait.  Now it's about 12:40 and I'm tired if waiting..put my coat on and get all the way to the exit.  Nurse stops me.  "You are breathing too hard.  Go back to your room and wait for lunch and then I'll get you a wheelchair.  I dont want you walking downstairs"  I dont know when I punked tf up..but I turned my simp ass around and walked back to the room and got back on the bed (she was right about the breathing..I cant walk more than 10 feet without getting tired..it takes me 3-4 days to bounce back after bad attacks) Finally at 2:00 they bring the damn lunch!  And I will be damned if that lunch was not freaking amazing!!  And I swear, I was eating my last bite of fish when the wheelchair transport arrived, lol.  She had even arranged for a voucher for a lyft to take me home because she didnt want me riding the buses home.  

The muhfuggin END of my latest hospital adventure