Sick Sucks

I started writing this post a couple of days ago when we were less sick, and it's only gotten worse. So I'd better finish this before it gets even more worse...

Being sick sucks. Especially when life doesn't stop and you still have to be a parent and work.

Here's Mike's story... Just over two weeks ago he went to our regular doctor's office and was diagnosed with bronchitis. A week later, he went to urgent care because the meds they'd put him on hadn't done anything and he'd gotten worse. The urgent care doctor said our regular doctor had put him on the wrong meds, changed them, and said if he didn't get better in five days he would need to be hospitalized. So five days later he wasn't better, went to the hospital, and was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia (but wasn't admitted). He had to go to urgent care again a few days after that to have a couple of breathing treatments, but he's finally starting to feel better.

Somewhere in those two weeks, Mike took our bathroom shower apart and found a whole bunch of mold, thanks to the idiot contractors who built it a few years back (they didn't seal it properly). No wonder we have recurring bronchitis/pneumonia every few months.

Here's my story... Just over two weeks ago I got the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine. It gave me a runny nose for a couple of days, which always gets into my lungs and festers into bronchitis. So about a week after that I went to our regular doctor and got some antibiotics to clear up the green chunks I was coughing up (sorry, TMI, I know). Then, yesterday, I was sitting on my couch minding my own business, grading papers, when I got hit with intense stomach pain. It felt exactly like it had in September '08 when I spent a week in the ER with gallstones. So to the ER we went. They did an ultrasound and, sure enough, I have gallstones. So I get to have semi-emergency surgery in the next couple of weeks to remove my gallbladder. My lifestyle is about to change again - no more good-tasting foods for me (no fatty foods after this, and I already can't eat much sugar because of my gastric bypass surgery). But at least my bronchitis is clearing up.

When it rains, it pours. So we're going to hunker down and try to get better. At least Alyssa isn't sick. And my family are saints for watching her at the last minute so much over the last couple of weeks. Thanks guys!