Hey there,
Noah here (obviously). Long time no see. It's 6:06 right now, and some nurse (actually she's been hella nice, she's a rather rotund African lady named Ester) just woke me up by taking blood samples. I probably have gotten a total of under ten hours shut eye in the last three days. With that I offer a friendly groan “Uggghhh.” I was just informed that I’d be feed in half an hour. Of course “feeding” is some high caloric tofu based vanilla tasting protein shake that is pumped directly into my stomach one can at a time (supposed to have six cans a day). I asked if we could do it now and was rejected. So I have half an hour to kill. Well, with me being up now, I figure I’ll add to the long neglected blog.
So how come it has taken me so long to add an article or two. Just about twenty days overdue, give or take a day. Unfortunately I have no excuses. I’ve been in the hospital, but that has been so boring you’d think I’d be writing hundreds of pages if for nothing else then to kill time. So laziness has been a factor. I can’t say I didn’t have anything to write about. There was Radiation prep and chemo prep (both ruined by my hospital stay). I have had more than a little bit of pain, it was rather distracting, which is why I was in the hospital.
Well I was actually in the hospital for pneumonia. Yeah I wasn't feeling too good for two to three days. In addition to that I almost went to the ER several times. On the second day I had such a high fever I couldn’t stop shaking. I was severely dehydrated and could barely stand. The third morning my mom went out to get a working thermometer and she saw I had a fever of over 103. So we took a fun drive to the Emergency Room. Being a “cancer” patient got me my own room in the ER. The room was hella cold. And they kept taking off my clothes (my mom went to the cafeteria) to listen to this or to feel that (nothing obscene). I believe I took an x-ray, and they found pneumonia. (in the right lung).
So it got really painful, then for the most part better. Eventually (after fourteen days) I was doing more non-pneumonia exercises and stuff testing my swallowing abilities then I was devoting to the pneumonia. Basically a doc would come in, talk for 5 minutes, listen to my breathing, feel my stomach and chest, and tell me we were going to continue with antibiotics and leave. I watched a whole mess of television. Avatar the Last Airbender is a good show, for a completely American “Anime.”
So on the thirteenth day I was so distraught about them saying I was going to stay for another week , after the doctors saying continually that I’d be getting out soon, that my dad went and got some answers to questions I didn’t know I had. I found out that they couldn’t hold me against my will, so once I found that out I let them know I’d be leaving the following day (the fourteenth). That was a debacle in and of itself. But two days later I wasn’t feeling well and, now I’m back in the hospital.
So that’s what’s been going on. I’ll try to keep everyone more informed in the future.
--Noah
P.S. If any artists are working on that peice of art for my arm, please send me an E-Mail (or text message) to let me know. And the size of a cell phone is a ruff estimate. I'm just trying to make it so that all these symbols will fit on my are.
