Well, this is just great.
Connie was in the hospital during the week of 08-14. Had to have both plerual areas of her lungs drained. Whoever did the right lung apparently punctured the lung so she had to have a vacuum apparatus stuck in her chest to drain the air, blood, and other fluids. Then she also had her chemo infusion port removed because the skin had become damaged and looked really nasty.
Then on 08-20 I started feeling like I was getting sick. Probably from some bug picked up at the hospital the prior week. Headache, sore throat, and a temperature that was jumping all over the place. Sometimes as high as 102 or so. Yeah, great..... I immediately started wearing a mask here at home, but apparently it was too late. Connie started feeling sick on 08-23. By 08-25 she was back into the emergency room. They tested her for COVID and the test came back positive. I had tested myself with a home kit earlier, but my non-functional brain read the results wrong, and I thought I was negative. But when I tested Connie while at the hospital I looked more closely at the results and determined that yep, we BOTH had come down with COVID. Great.....
Connie was being treated for pneumonia in her lower right lung. And, of course, having COVID. Fortunately her pleural effusions hadn't built up yet to where they needed to be drained, which is what she thought was going on when we went to the emergency room.
I brought her back home on 08-27. So she was pumped full of antibiotics while at the hospital and she has even more in pill form to be taking for the next 10 days. That all on top of her chemo drugs from her trip to Tijuana over a month ago. We are both coughing quite a bit, but beyond that really don't feel all that bad. Maybe a little like being put through a wringer.
And now we have Hurricane Idalia bearing down on us. With all those drugs in Connie, she can't get too far away from a bath room, so evacuating would be a real issue. Not to mention checking into a motel while having COVID certainly wouldn't endear us to the natives. So we are here to just ride it out, and whatever happens, happens. Honestly, just getting real tired of fighting and worrying every damn day about something or another.
Gee, it's just GREAT to be alive.................
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