Sick

Sitting at home with a cold turned into pneumonia, taking multi-spectrum anti-biotics and popping decongestant like candy.  For you believers out there, please pray for me.  For you non-believers, please put out some positive thoughts my way.  This is the seventh time in my life I have had pneumonia due to my lungs not clearing because of my asthma.  I think this is the worst time.  The condition is basically caused when your lungs get fluid in them.  The inside of your lungs look like a bunch of grapes.  When you breathe in, air goes into the grapes, and oxygen is absorbed through them into your bloodstream.  When fluid fills some of those grape like areas, air does not get to them, so a normal breath gives you much less oxygen.  You basically feel the way you do after you have held your breath for two minutes.  Kind of tired and wanting more air.  Nothing to do for it but sleep with your head raised, drink lots of fluids, rest and get your meds down.

I did get good news yesterday, my left leg is finally healing around my artificial implant, so I should be able to walk normally within a few months.  My doctor is also doing follow-up tests to make sure all the bone necrosis is gone, which rocks.

I apologize to all my awesome friends at the Steampunk Society who were coming to my house Saturday for a pool party.  I was really looking forward to hosting it, but it usually takes me one to two weeks to recover from this.  Hopefully, we can do it another time.  I will miss a few of the writers’ groups too, so save a chair for me in a couple of weeks.  Take care everyone.