Monday, March 19, 2012

Status Update: Jan. 2008

My health deteriorated a lot in January.  The wound was not healing, I had almost no energy, no appetite, and did little else but sit - and sleep - in a reclining chair.  During a follow-up visit to the surgeon, while I was in his office, my mother made a scene in the waiting room, complaining to the doctor that there was obviously something wrong that they were ignoring.  The doctor sent me to the hospital where I was admitted with an extremely low blood pressure reading.

I was in the hospital for around a week and they modified my blood-pressure medicine again, thinking it was not yet correctly balanced since the first change.  Additionally they did lab work but only found a stomach bug, which they treated with an anti-biotic IV drip.  Between that and the professional wound care, my wound began to show the first, small signs of healing, but it was going to turn out to be a very long process.

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