Rough start of the new year-but it's all good

Hey Y'all!!

The last time I posted I was at C's house. A lot has happened since then. C has had some dificulty in her work situation. I am not shure how much she wants me to say so I will let her comment about it in the comments section if she wants to.

I have been sick since the early part of december that started out as a cold that has never left my chest. My legs have been swelling so last friday I made it to the urgent care at the V.A. hospital about two hours from where I live. The doctor said I have the congestive heart failure thing going on. I don't have it real bad like my dad. I just have a touch of it. It sounds scarry but it mostly means I am retaining alot of water and my normal circulation can't pump it out. I am on lasix and potasium. I worked this weekend against doctors orders cause I had to. I have bills piling up and I can't afford to miss work. No work = No pay. I have had a terrible cough for over a month now but friday when I was in they did a chest x-ray and it came back negative.

I was working sunday night and started feeling real bad and must have been running a tempreture cause one of the girls I work with felt my head and she said I was burrning up just sitting there. I had that dizzy achey feeling. I always call C while I am working and she was real worried about me. When I got home from work I called the V.A. and they said to come to urgent care as soon as possible. I laid down and got a few hours of sleep and drove up there. My blood sugar has been running abnormaly high and I still have this damed cough. They x-rayed my chest again but just like before, nothing. The doctor could hear whezing in my lungs and sent me in for a CT scan. He wanted to make shure I wa not forming blood clots in my lungs cause some of the stuff I was coughing up was a little red. They didn't find any blood clots but the CT scan showed my air passages were severly inflamed. My lmyph nodes around one of my lungs were really enlarged. He told me that was signs of some really wicked bronchitus or the possibility of the onset of pneumonia. He's got me started on antibiotics and two differnt inhalers. I of course being the wise guy I am,am still smoking as much as I can stand to. I know stupid, right?

Ya know I was thinking tonight, I have a whole lot of health issues. I now take over tweleve differn't pills a day for all kinds of stuff wrong with me. I could be bitter and think about these curses I have. But ya know in my heart of hearts I don't feel cursed. I am not bitter. I actually feel blessed cause of all the good things in life God has done for me. My family, My friends, My job. I have a girl in my life that loves me and that I can trust. I drive nice vehicles. I got clothes on my back, food in my belly and a place to lay my head. It hasn't always been that way. I have had rough times in life early on. I apreciate my life and where it has me right now, even if I am a little sick.

Thats what has been going on with me. Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I am not going to lie, I just have not felt like it. I have been doing alot of sleeping in this computer chair. I don't know if it's because I have been sick or what, but every time I get the oportunity to update my blog I either fall asleep or just haven't felt motivated to do it.

Thank you windfall for asking about me!!

Y'all take care!

Cornbread