It was prettier when the water was full to the top. There were fresh raspberries and strawberries suspended among the ice. The water had a gentle berry flavor. So delicious!! What a neat idea!
Sometimes it always seems like there has to be something with my health. It's frustrating. Friday morning I woke up in the very early morning with my diaphragm area just aching. It still hurt in the morning when I got up. I jogged hoping to work it out. Nope. By evening it was definitely worse.
Saturday morning was better with the pain more localized in the lower left quadrant of my lung. It wasn't my rib, but deeper. Saturday night it was really hurting and I couldn't take a full breath, so we decided to go in. I was thinking I might have a partially collapsed lung. They did chest x-rays, nope. Maybe heart issues or blood clot. Blood tests for both. Heart, no, blood clot a possibility. So needed to do CT scan with dye. Hook up IV, take test (boy that felt weird, but didn't last long). Wait, nope, not a clot, but my aveoli are collapsed in that area.
Dr. says take plenty of pain meds so can breathe deep in that area and refill the aveoli. I did that, that night, and was definitely better on Sunday. Was hurting more last night, but we'd had such a busy day, that I didn't keep up with the pain meds. I'm planning to do better today. Dr. said to be careful as it would be easy to get pneumonia in that area.
Isn't that just weird!! It's called atelectasis. I'm hoping that maybe when I jog this morning, it will help open that area up the rest of the way, so the rest of the pain will leave. Weird. I'm glad it wasn't a collapsed lung or a blood clot, but it sure felt like a waste of an ER trip, although it is nice to feel better and not worried about what it is.
Anyways....life goes on.... :-)
Saturday morning was better with the pain more localized in the lower left quadrant of my lung. It wasn't my rib, but deeper. Saturday night it was really hurting and I couldn't take a full breath, so we decided to go in. I was thinking I might have a partially collapsed lung. They did chest x-rays, nope. Maybe heart issues or blood clot. Blood tests for both. Heart, no, blood clot a possibility. So needed to do CT scan with dye. Hook up IV, take test (boy that felt weird, but didn't last long). Wait, nope, not a clot, but my aveoli are collapsed in that area.
Dr. says take plenty of pain meds so can breathe deep in that area and refill the aveoli. I did that, that night, and was definitely better on Sunday. Was hurting more last night, but we'd had such a busy day, that I didn't keep up with the pain meds. I'm planning to do better today. Dr. said to be careful as it would be easy to get pneumonia in that area.
Isn't that just weird!! It's called atelectasis. I'm hoping that maybe when I jog this morning, it will help open that area up the rest of the way, so the rest of the pain will leave. Weird. I'm glad it wasn't a collapsed lung or a blood clot, but it sure felt like a waste of an ER trip, although it is nice to feel better and not worried about what it is.
Anyways....life goes on.... :-)
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Wow! That would be scary to go through. But it wasn't a wasted trip.
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