Good news & less-than-good news

The really good news: today’s visit to urgent care did not result in a trip to the ER and admittance to the hospital.

In fact, all my vital signs were fine and the doctor wasn’t entirely convinced pneumonia was the current issue. So it might not be an official “relapse;” the chest x-ray results will tell us for sure.

The less-than-good news is that there’s no getting around the fact that I was fatigued, plus dealing with some unrelated symptoms (avoiding TMI here!), and have had to bow out of a number of fun and inspiring events.

Not. Good.

I do not want this sort of thing to become my ongoing reality.

From urgent care to ER and beyond

Well! Was I totally off base or what?!?

Turns out I couldn’t nip things in the bud because they weren’t little things. Nope, these are big things — as in pneumonia and atrial fibrillation and electrolytes all out of whack.

Bottom line? Instead of it being the day to feel completely normal again, I get to spend a couple of nights in the hospital!