back from hellspital
so....yea, a lot has happened in the past 5 days to me, so i'll start from the beginning.
Sunday I woke up not really being able to breathe too well (that started a bit the day before), but i went to work for 5 minutes before they sent me home. it just kept getting worse, until it was bad enough for me to ask my roommate to take me to the hospital.
We went to parkland hospital where i went to the clinic....after i described about 3 of my symptoms he made me put a mask on and wheeled me down to the ER. Now i see that they thought it could be swine flu, thank god it was not. so the ER staff kept telling me that it was only asthma. The thing is, i have had asthma since i was 5, and have not had an attack since i was 10 or so, and this did not feel like asthma. They made me take an x-ray where they said it looked fine, so i was just having an asthma spell. well a few hours, and 5 breathing treatments later i was still wheezy and having trouble so they ran a ct scan and found....my lungs were full of pneumonia. At one point the ER respertory man looked at my vitals, yelled crap and ran out of the room. me and skye sat there like O__o
me:"saying crap and running out of the room...that's not a good sign huh....?"
skye:"probably not...."
we learned later that my resting heart rate was sitting at 133....where the normal resting heart rate is 70 or so.
Apparently my entire right lung (all three lobes) was full of pneumonia, as well as large area's of my left. so they asked to observe me over night, which turned into 2 days.
And to top this wonderful story off...i learned that i had a pulmonary embolism....so yea...that's pretty bad. but they gave me lots of meds and now i get to sit in the apartment for a few days...i'll get antsy but i'd rather be cooped up here at home than in the strange smelly hospital. -_- in about a week i should be back up to my normal standards, give or take. but i am going to have to watch my heartrate and all, b/c this was a very very scary wake up sign for me to take better care of myself.
well i'm getting sleepy again, so off to napland.
Sunday I woke up not really being able to breathe too well (that started a bit the day before), but i went to work for 5 minutes before they sent me home. it just kept getting worse, until it was bad enough for me to ask my roommate to take me to the hospital.
We went to parkland hospital where i went to the clinic....after i described about 3 of my symptoms he made me put a mask on and wheeled me down to the ER. Now i see that they thought it could be swine flu, thank god it was not. so the ER staff kept telling me that it was only asthma. The thing is, i have had asthma since i was 5, and have not had an attack since i was 10 or so, and this did not feel like asthma. They made me take an x-ray where they said it looked fine, so i was just having an asthma spell. well a few hours, and 5 breathing treatments later i was still wheezy and having trouble so they ran a ct scan and found....my lungs were full of pneumonia. At one point the ER respertory man looked at my vitals, yelled crap and ran out of the room. me and skye sat there like O__o
me:"saying crap and running out of the room...that's not a good sign huh....?"
skye:"probably not...."
we learned later that my resting heart rate was sitting at 133....where the normal resting heart rate is 70 or so.
Apparently my entire right lung (all three lobes) was full of pneumonia, as well as large area's of my left. so they asked to observe me over night, which turned into 2 days.
And to top this wonderful story off...i learned that i had a pulmonary embolism....so yea...that's pretty bad. but they gave me lots of meds and now i get to sit in the apartment for a few days...i'll get antsy but i'd rather be cooped up here at home than in the strange smelly hospital. -_- in about a week i should be back up to my normal standards, give or take. but i am going to have to watch my heartrate and all, b/c this was a very very scary wake up sign for me to take better care of myself.
well i'm getting sleepy again, so off to napland.