I also couldn’t do anything I used to love doing before my diagnosis. I only had enough strength to breathe. My head felt like it was stuffed with cotton balls. I couldn’t think or make decisions. That will take time to recover.

I normally don’t like watching tv, but I watched a lot of HGTV shows when I was hospitalized. It was mindless entertainment, and I watched happy people looking for condos in the Caribbean. My husband hated it, but it helped me escape my sad reality.

To my husband’s consternation, I kept talking about moving away from our dreary Midwestern weather. Several years later we moved to Arizona! Lol