Thank you. I will take all the blessings I can get. In spite of being sick for a very long time, up until October I was working full time as a Physician Assistant in a very busy urgent care and doing pre-anesthesia testing at the local hospital. In October I got C-diff colitis secondary to antibiotics being prescribed for chronic recurrent UTI. It all went down hill from there. I ended up with a ruptured bowel, that was not healing properly due to recent high dose prednisone. It was followed by 6 abdominal surgeries in a 12 day period. I spent many weeks in ICU total time in the acute care hospital was 2 months then I went to an acute care long term rehab for two months. At the end of December I was so weak I was not able to walk, I was receiving IV nutrition because I could barely eat. I finally was discharged the end of Feb. I went home with walker, wheelchair, and 18 hours a day of IV nutrition. Fast forward to today. I went to the YMCA this morning and worked out in the pool for one hour. I still have not returned to work and was denied disability. I am fighting that, just playing the waiting game now.
My hearing is such that I am receiving hearing aids on Wednesday. But I feel so blessed to be walking and talking on this earth right now.