I'mmmmmm back!!!!!

I find it a little bit ironic as Alanis would say and quite frankly a little bit sad that I the reason I stopped writing my blog last year was because I was so incredibly sick. And here we are again – a year later and I am sick yet again! What. The. Heck.

The good news is that this year, I could FEEL myself getting sick. The wheezing in my lungs was something I could feel and hear. So I got my butt to the Urgent Care at 8:30 on a Sunday morning, paid a ton of money and got a diagnosis lickety split: Bronchitis. Here’s your meds. Here’s your note to stay out of work for two days.

Contrast this with the seven – yes seven trips (!!!) I took to the doctor’s office to be repeatedly told it was a virus . Wait it out. Push fluids. Rest. Over and over and over. By the time I got up north to throw my mother a surprise birthday party I could barely speak, let alone breathe. I coughed constantly and as my mother (a retired nurse) kept insisting I go see a doctor, I pushed back. I told her repeatedly: It’s a VIRUS! That’s what the doctor said – seven times!!!

By the time I relented and agreed that: Yes indeed! Something was very very wrong with me. I had full blown pneumonia. Twenty four hours before the surprise party I had been planning and plotting and paying for. I told the doctor there was no rest for the wicked: The party was ON! I would keep my distance as best I could. It was a wonderful party, by the way.  

It took me several weeks before I started to feel better. I guess the lesson learned from all this is: Trust yourself. Trust your instincts. Doctors are wonderful, but not infallible human beings. You have the right to be sick and the right for a second opinion and to advocate for yourself if you feel that you, your symptoms and your illness are not being taken seriously.

All that being said: It’s no excuse for letting my blog lapse. I’m back… and I still have a ton of stuff on my mind. The savage is still curious. And lucky lucky you…. You get to read it all ;)