Breaking Records..

That's me a record breaker! Just not of any records that I want to break! Yesterday I totally forgot to add that I had tied my record of longest hospital stay so today I break that record! Three weeks goin' on four now!

Also yesterday I finally got my hair washed!!! Only going a full three weeks without washing my hair! I know, I know, I'm a cosmotologist how could I do that? basically because I can't wash it! They do have a 'shampoo cap' but that doesn't work, they heat it in the microwave, put it on your head massage it around and it does have some soap in it but they let it cool and take it off and that's it! a no rinse solution, therefore it is still in your hair and I feel makes my hair feel worse than before, so that's why I haven't done one this visit, but one of the HCA's here told me she could wash my hair if I could just sit in a chair, sure I said, so we did it yesterday and not only did she wash it but she blow-dryed it too! Oh it felt so so good! So now my hair doesn't look quite so bad.

As for our fourth of July, we didn't go to bed until 5am!!!!!!! but it wasn't because of a big party or fireworks, instead it was because of my special lungs! I kept getting a little more short of breath as the day worn on yesterday and was more tired, so I had them get an ABG (Arterial Blood Gas) the intern was a little funny because I told the nurse I wanted one and so the nurse had to call the intern and he said 'I've never had anyone ask for one!' the reason is I wanted to see what my C02 was, about a week earlier it had climbed pretty high, so we did it and it was a little high but a lot lower than it had been, nothing to worry about yet, they did another one a half hour or so later and it did go up a little but that isn't what the problem was we had also done an x-ray and they couldn't see anything, they called the dr. and he said do a CT scan because with me it's never simple, we all remember what fun we had last time right?

Well, wasn't as bad this time, came back to the room and in an hour or two told us we would be going to CT to check-out the chest tube or maybe even put in a new one, they saw a good amount of air in there, so we went down about 3 in the morning and I'm so grateful that the dr. drove over an hour to be there, he was the one that put it in, so he was able to just pull it out a little and it was in the right spot and they got a lot of air out right away, I didn't feel a major difference in breathing like all the other times, but then again it wasn't as bad, at least I did feel better and my breathing is much better today.

My little doggies are coming up to visit me tonight! Yippee!