Glad you're home safe and sound, Phil.  But take it easy and don't try to
jump back into things too fast, or I'll have to come beat you with a wet
noodle.  <grin>  I can imagine that was scary.  Glad you finally got the
help and meds you needed.

Peggy

At 02:00 PM 11/21/2003 -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.

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