It's a curse and a blessing all in one

First I have to say thank you to all of you who have told me to get better. I have really appreciated your kind and thoughtful words. Today, I was finally starting to feel better but I have been wheezing and coughing really bad. So I went to see my wonderful and favorite doctor who did not like my "junky," his medical word, sound in my chest. SO I had a chest xray and long behold...I have pneumonia & fluid around both eardrums. Well ain't that just fine and dandy...NOT.

But I do have to say that Dr. Wonderful upped my steroids (prednisone), gave me a strong, kick butt antibiotic (Levaquin), and also gave me a prescription for Diflucan just in case the antibiotic gives me another kind of issue. I will also continue my nebulizer treatments every four hours. Yippee for me! So from the medication standpoint, I am set.

The curse may be that I have little to no immune system due to the already prescribed steroids that I am still on from the flu(s) and an URI AND am on a (supposed) break, but the blessing is that I am not having to miss school for these illnesses. Kind of a curse and a blessing at the same time...but I will take it and not miss school thankyouverymuch!

If you would keep me in your prayers for a quick, yet full, recovery I would appreciate it.

Updates galore

Sorry it has taken some time for me to update. Life has sure thrown me some curve balls this week and I have been taken aback by a few of them. No this week has not been as bad as last week, but emotionally, it has been worse.

Starting off with my Nonni, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for all of the prayers. She is still in the hospital and ALL of her doctors have been called in because of the pneumonia and now her heart is giving them worry. She has had heart trouble for a while now and they are concentrating hard with it now as well. She is still on Oxygen and getting a little stronger each day. No date has been set to when she is coming home though. Right now, I believe the hospital is the best place for her.

Then there is a baby girl (21 months) who I babysit for. Girlie spent the night in the hospital last night and was given antibiotics and fluids. On Tuesday, she had what her parents thought was a virus, but after 72 hours of not being able to keep anything down, they took her to the doctor who sent them to the hospital for Rotavirus. They released her today, but she is on strict orders to only have Gatorade and crackers/pretzels. She is still very weak and out of it too. She is still experiencing tummy troubles too. I actually saw her in the hospital last night and she is not herself. I am hoping that she turns the corner very soon.

I also know that there are lots of other babies/kiddos who are sick and I am praying that they feel better soon. Having/seeing a child sick is NOT an easy task and I PRAY they all are healed soon.

Praying Hard for all to heal

Calling all prayer warriors

Calling all prayer warriors: my Nonni (mom's mom) is in the hospital with pneumonia. The doctors are aggressively treating her with IV antibiotics and she is also on Oxygen. She got the whole lights and sirens ambulance ride because her oxygen levels were in the very low 80s. Please pray for healing and recovery for my sweet Nonni!

**Update: Nonni is still in the hospital and on the Oxygen as well. I talked to her at 9:25pm and she sounds okay. Still not her good ole self, but slowly getting better. I know pneumonia takes time to rid too :( She thinks about two more days in the hospital though. I told her about the prayer post and she sounded relieved and thankful.