So it wasn't a cold

CaDiva got me to the Doctor on Wednesday, who got me into the ER, which got me admitted with a bi-lateral pneumonia.

I'm trying to figure how to use this system at the hospital. It is pretty cool really. Right from my TV I can see Gmail, FB, and even my Blog. Well see is a rough term for knowing it is on the screen and trying to make out the individual elements from the bed. But today I'm sitting up in a chair and I'm hoping I'll be able to caption the other pictures while I'm up and learning to breath deeply again.

We tried walking this AM. The nurse put the supplemental O2 down to 1% and I got down two doors before she made me stop and hold onto something while she upped the oxygen. You see, your blood oxygen saturation point should be like at 100%. They aren't so testy about it at 95%. Although they would prefer that via "room air" rather than a rolling silver tank. But if you are breathing the stuff from the rolling silver tank and it still is at 87%, they do not agree you can leave the hospital.

The doctor said I could keep taking walks and doing other things that would help me expand my breathing. But I have to have hand holding and rolling silver tanks or finger probes (I know, right. I didn't think that was a good name for it either but that is what the nurse called it.)

I will do anything I can do to work the "gunk" out of my left lung (they no longer seem so worried about the right side.) So, up and out of bed to do as much as I can with limited sleep at night.

Truly, do you need to know my potassium level at 4 AM? I can promise you if you give me my banana or plums and let me sleep until 7, it will be improved.

Anyway, this is just my way of saying, go back and look at some of the earlier posts and see if I have updated the pictures. Maybe I have. And maybe I haven't. But you won't know until you look.