No other place to post this so here goes.
I've been in the hospital for the last 5 days with pneumonia and a bacterial blood infection.
They had me on days and days of IV antibiotics to clear it out. Apparently I got some bacteria on my skin that traveled into my blood stream probably from some small cut I had that I wasn’t aware of. It was scary. Hospitals are no fun. Constantly checking vitals. Lights, beeps and nurses in and out of my room poking and prodding at me. I’m diabetic so they switched me from Metformin to Insulin. They kept trying to get it to stabilize but because of how whacked out my body was that was a challenge for them.
I’m home now, got home yesterday afternoon. It was my 64th BDay so I’d say that was the best BDay present I could have received to be home in my own space. Now the healing begins. I'm just up after 10 hours of needed sleep without interruption. I'm hoping SO MUCH that I can resume work next week SLOWLY but for now I need a lot of rest and getting life back to some normalcy.
I lost 32 lbs. in about 2 weeks so I have weight to put back on and energy to regain so I can get back to life.
Sadly my clients have to wait but most, if not all, are more concerned about my health than their hair so I think I’ll be OK but once I start work again I’ll have to gauge how much I work, like maybe 2 cuts a day or 1 color and cut a day. Can’t overdo it.
There seems to be a lot of folks out there this year with pneumonia. I’m hearing more about that then COVID. Weird. Stay safe, if you feel run down, cough allot and lethargic please go get seen as you don’t know what it could be. You don’t want to end up in hospital. It’s no fun plus ...
The food is horrid, at least at San Mateo General! I got ONE good meal that I have to say was delicious on the last evening I was there! The rest I would pick up the plate cover, look at and want to hurl and put it back down. I survived on protein shakes that my friend Eliezer brought to me and they did have peanut butter and crackers so I ate those. Some fruit cups and some diabetic safe juices and coffee and water. Breakfast was usually a double heap of scrambled eggs, cheese, fruit and coffee (not horrible). Eliezer on my first two days brought me some fast food I was craving so that tied me over in the afternoon. And he would stay and talk with me for about 1/2 hour. So it was nice to visit with him.
