maybe an answer?!

well what an interesting past two days. janie came over last night and ate dinner and watched american idol & biggest loser!!!! whew we were MAD at biggest loser!!...i dont know if you watch it but the blue team is making some DUMB decisions!! ...anyway... i was so happy she came over! it's her spring break and since she lives in murfreesboro 6 out of 7 days (most of the time) i rarely get to see her...so this week i've gotten to see her alot! & the week isn't over!! anyhow so after she left i started to feel awful. my fever wouldn't come down even after tylenol. i woke up this morning feeling awful. i just didn't have an appetite and i STILL had a fever and i was just sooo tired. i layed around allll day and went to the dr at 2. i saw a different dr than i had been the past few times. i have been seeing dr miller but today i saw dr willers. at first i was apprehensive about seeing a different dr than normal, but i actually think it turned out for the better! she started asking me what all had been going on from the beginning. i told her everything...from day one. and every little symptom i ever had. so she says "well i think i have a good idea of what it may be"... and she goes on to tell me that she really really believes it is C Diff Colitis. dont know what that is? welll let me tell you... basically it is an infection/inflammation in my colon. pleasant i know. she thinks it happened because of a number of things; i've been on so many antibiotics that they cleaned out all bacterias good & bad- so the good bacterias that were in my colon were gone and couldn't protect it from bugs & my immunity is down so i could've picked up a bug anywhere. so here's what she's going to do about it. she wants to stop alll of the antibiotics that i've been on the past month & the antibiotic that was so expensive. and i start a new medicine that ill take 3 times a day for this colitis. she also wants me to continue the fluids so i don't get dehydrated. she said i should be somewhat better in 48 hours! i asked her why i was so winded bc that's not normal for me. she said the colitis has made me sooo tired and my blood count has gone up which can make my lungs wear out and be tired. i left the dr soo encouraged!! this is some "good" news. i mean it sucks i have this little infection but it is a possible answer!

also- she said everything from the bronch came back psuedomonas which is what i always have. it is what causes pneumonia. so all of the antibiotics i have been on treat that. thats why it was okay for her to take me off of them. and the blood work from monday came back and i didn't have any weird viruses.

so it has been a long few days. but hopefully ill feel alot better by the weekend! i think im going to be staying inside since its going to be in the 30' and 40's! tuesdays 82 degree was just a tease and quite frankly its not fair! im READY FOR SPRING!

hopefully the next time we talk ill be feeling better!

until then,

leigh allyn

Prayers:
~the colitis is an answer and it gets cured and i start feeling much better!