After all this time of not posting anything, I never thought that I would be posting from a hospital room. Yep that's right I'm currently in hospital and have been here since Monday night. Guess I should fill everyone in on what's happening.
On Monday I decided to go to Care Now to get checked out because I had a cough that just wasn't going away. I thought it would be no big deal. I would see a doctor, get a prescription or two and go home. Things were more or less heading along that path until they did a chest x-ray and discovered I had pneumonia. Since they aren't really set up to handle something that serious, they asked me to go to the emergency room to be checked out. They said that the ER might want to put me on IV antibiotics which they couldn't do at Care Now.
Well my friend and I trudged over to the ER so we could begin the unbearable wait for me to be treated. After about three hours of waiting and being bored, they finally got me in and did another round of chest x-rays. This is were things took an unexpected turn.
Next thing I know the nurse and the doctor come into the ER room wearing some serious looking masks like I'm infected with something scary and they're afraid of catching it. Turns out the latest round of chest x-rays not only showed the pneumonia, but it also showed an anomaly that is usually associated with tuberculosis. WTF!?! TB??? How could I have come into contact with that?
Needless to say they admitted to me and put me in an isolated room so they can run all sorts of fun tests.
Now I don't think I have TB, and so far all the tests are coming back negative for TB. So the docs are trying to figure out what I have. There's a possibility that I have some type of fungal infection that on an x-ray looks like TB, but we don't have a definite answer yet.
On top of everything else that's going on, when they did a CT scan a blood clot was discovered in on of my lungs. For that they have me on blood thinners.
Tomorrow they doctor is going to do some type of bronchial test. It will require them to all but put me under so they can shove a tube into my lungs to take some biopsies from the site that has the anomaly.
For the most part I'm doing okay. I am a bit overwhelmed by everything that's going on, but I guess that's to be expected.
