Sick

I'm just copying this over from my Xanga site. I figured I might as well put some kind of an update over here.

I have so much to say and so much to share, but I'll start with the main thing in my life right now. I'm still sick. But now I'm REALLY sick. I finally finished my antibiotics last Wednesday. I had done 20 days of Augmentin (at 4 pills/day- that makes 80 pills of Augmentin!) and 10 days of Prednisone (15 pills total of that) because I wasn't getting better. Well, I thought I was healthy last Wednesday morning for good. Then Wednesday night right before we left for Michigan, my chest got really tight, which I just attributed to the fact that it had been 4 hours since my last breathing treatment. But I found it kind of odd that it would be doing that since I thought I was almost healthy again. I didn't have time for a breathing treatment though since we had to get on the road. By the time we got to Michigan, it was getting worse. Thursday I kept feeling worse and worse. Friday it was to the point that I knew I needed a doctor, but of course it was a long weekend so NO ONE was in. At least no one that could help me! Especially from out of state! I called my allergist. Their answering machine tells me to call my family doctor. I call my pulmonologist. His nurse is in for a couple hours but she doesn't have the power to do anything for me. So why is she there without a doctor?! That one didn't make sense. So she said I could schedule an appointment for Monday to see the doc. I did. That meant I went the whole long weekend without any extra help and just kept getting worse and worse.

Now I am worse than I was when this all started over a month ago! I am in full-blown sickness. I feel rather crummy. And I thought I had it pretty bad a couple weeks ago when all I could do was go to class and sleep (not in class ). But nope. This is even worse. Just like it normally is every year. So I went to my pulmonologist, Dr. Rasp, this morning. I love that guy. He is the one that is like a grandpa to me. He said there is no way I should have gone a long weekend like that without meds! He said I should have called him at home! Isn't that sweet?! Well, that is just fine and dandy, but how am I supposed to do that when I don't have his home phone number??? So he put me on a new round of meds that will not only help me get better but also ward off the other sicknesses that are found on a college campus. Plus he upped the dosage on my inhaler. I'm still on the breathing treatments, too.

We should have a day of mourning. This was my last appointment with Dr. Rasp! He is leaving that practice and going up to one of the hospitals to work. It's his "semi-retirement" as the nurses like to tease him by saying. What am I going to do without him?! He has been such an incredible doctor. He has helped me a lot. He even gave Christa and I each a business card of his the one time in case I ever needed help since I was going off to college. He had said I could just call him and he'd get something for me right away. He has taken the time to get to know me better at each appointment, non-medically related. He always says how sweet I am and what a sweet smile I have. Lol. He says he loves it when he walks in the room and sees me because I'm much nicer than some of his elderly patients that he deals with. Haha. He recommended another doctor for me, though. He said he is cute and young and I'll really like him. He said I can call him at home if I don't like him- that is how confident he is that I will like this new guy. Oh my. Lol. I will miss Dr. Rasp. He always made me laugh.

I remembered today something my allergist once said after looking up my nose (lovely, right? Haha). He said, "There are three things I can count on each day: that the sun will rise, the sun will set, and Leanne will be congested." Do I take that as a compliment?

Random Updates...

I was very pleased with the results of Dancing with the Stars last week! I wasn't happy that Joanna was voted off before Kelly was. That was not right at ALL. But I was glad Kelly was the first one voted off in the finals and that Donny and Mya were the two in the top spots. I didn't care which one of them won. I would have been happy with either. They were both so good.

Last weekend we went to see Beauty and the Beast again at the college. It was SO incredible!!! They did an awesome job, and all of the many hours of hard work was very evident. I strongly suggest for you all to look at the pictures at this link. They are on HU's Facebook page. The pictures of them turned out wonderfully as well. The guy who did my Senior pictures took them. It's not the same as actually seeing the show, but it's the next best thing! So please go look at them! Their costumes, set, everything was incredible.

We also went to see the 25th annual Pomp and Plenty show. That is the high school's show choir's fall show that they put on every year. It was amazing, as usual. While we were there, Jen got up to go to the bathroom. When she stood up, her cell phone fell on the floor. I bent forward to grab it when Dad asked me to and smacked my head into the chair in front of me. Not one of my brightest moments. I immediately had a nice little knot on my head. Thankfully it was right below my hairline on my forehead, so my hair covered it when I had my hair down.