Phil, it is nice to see you back home. You are surely glad to get out of
that hospital. I don't know why they call them hospitals when they aren't
that hospitable.
At 02:00 PM 11/21/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for all your prayers. Being home today is very nice but I have a
>long ways too go yet with lots of antibiotics and steroids for the
>pneumonia. In the last four days, I have slept maybe 10 hours. My ears
>feel like I have balloons in them but the wheezing in my lungs from the
>pneumonia literally was so loud when I would breath out, it was keeping me
>awake. It was very strange noises, too. Sometimes it sounded like a
>musical band playing inside my chest and translating up into my throat and
>into my ears. The first night it kept me awake all night. literally all
>night, I finally called a nurse to come at 2:30 in the morning to listen to
>my lungs. After listening to it I said, Are you hearing the same thing I am
>hearing in my lungs. She said yes and that everybody with this flue and
>with pneumonia had it. That noise has reduced by about 90 percent now,
>thank the Lord, and I am able to sleep for a few hours at a time without it
>awakening me. I have a great deal of back pain because no matter how hard I
>tried adjusting that bed, I could never find a spot and often spent many
>hours sitting up or getting out of bed to sit in a recliner. I last several
>days in time and although I knew all that was going on, it was like living
>in a daze with everything but a small part of your mind shut down. Even
>writing this message has so many mistakes I have had to go back and fix, it
>must be my mind is still so tired, it is still partly shut down. I fell at
>the house before going to the hospital and received very painful injuries
>but I never relies I had them until I was at the hospital. John Ireland,
>Vicki's husband, came and picked me up today and brought me home and ran
>some other prescriptions to the store for me. John, and many others, were a
>big help to me and to Sandy this week. I was laying in bed the other night
>thinking how my experience seemed to be bringing a group of people together
>but I will explain more about that later. Thank you all very much for
>praying for me because I had not been that ill since I was a teenager and it
>was a very scary experience for an old guy like me.
>
>Phil.
John
Fascinating, said Spock, watching Kirk's lousy acting.<*>
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