Update

**KiwiGal** · 12-02-2018 03:04 PM

Hey Kristi
You know you the best.
Continue to look after yourself.
Kia Kaha
(Stay strong)
x

**AnnieG** · 12-02-2018 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Kristi7928

I saw the home health nurse and she says I’m stable for what I’ve been through. Both nausea meds cause drowsiness sovtgat explains why I’m tired. My hemoglobin being low will make me tired and weak as well. She thinks the nausea is the IV antibiotic. She saw me take it and get nauseous shortly after. Wants me to try and eat more - she don’t care what it is. If I have to take a couple of bites and stop but eat it again later that’s ok. She was very knowledgeable on the sleeve. Vitals were perfect.

She said it could be a couple of months before I’m back to normal. I was close to death so the body needs rest. I’m going to take FMLA and not worry about work with all this going on. It’s me time for a bit. Plus, I’m still very prone to infection. Time for Lysol spray and wipes when people touch my stuff. They believe this all started from a small virus I caught from someone.

Responding in an email <3

**Kristi7928** · 12-13-2018 07:51 PM

Thought I would drop by with a quick update.

Things are not good. I'm still on IV antibiotics and tomorrow I go for another cat scan as the doc thinks my pnemonia spot is bigger. He could not tell real well on my chest xray. My hemoglobin is 8.8. So I am wiped out tired. I still can't eat and the nasuea is awful even with drugs. I seem to puke every time I try to eat. Doc is pretty sure it's the antibiotics and he doesn't seem too concerned with it. It scares my parents. I just want to be able to eat again and get back on track. Dad thinks it's surgery related - I sure hope not. I just want this over with.

My work has been fabulous. My FMLA was approved and I can ask for donated leave time. I will work on that this weekend.

I'll update when I can.

**EllisM80** · 12-16-2018 09:16 AM

It's so good that your work has been understanding. There are a lot of places that aren't. I got fired from a job in 2009 because I had to take more than 3 days off for a death in the family. Normally, that would be okay but there were extenuating circumstances that required me to NEED more than 3 days. My husband got fired too... same company. My mom did too. Same incidence but different company. They didn't believe our story and we were so distraught that we would have to prove such a horrible, devastating story that we didn't care to ever work for those companies anyways. I hope that you will be back to your normal in no time!