Well, as it turned out, that wasn't pneumonia. It was
congestive heart failure. I was having more and more
difficulty walking and breathing and a few days after
that last post I drove myself to the emergency room
at the South Shore Hospital where they immediately
admitted me. After a week of testing they sent me
home with some meds and on a low sodium diet.
While my heart problem gradually came under control,
I was having trouble with the meds and dehydrating. I
also kept having pain in my right side. Things came to
a head in late March when I passed out at work. When
the EMT's took my blood pressure, it was 58 over 40,
so away I went in the ambulance to SSH again, this time
for ten days. Turns out the pain was the gallstones in the
infected gallbladder, and I was so dehydrated my kidneys
nearly failed. Fun eh?
Long story short, I'm still breathing and I'm at a new
apartment. Details in the next post.
