So I went in for 4 hours and when I arrived I felt like this...
After four hours of work, I felt like this...
Which is honestly not too bad. And although I was pretty shaky, I came home, slept for two hours and had really gathered some strength back. So this is good.
Honestly, I was just glad I didn't come home feeling like this...
So you take what you can get. I'm on the mend.
Please keep praying. Everyone who has had this is now talking about "The Pneumonia Relapse," which is common for people who push things too quickly. And I've also had 2 different people tell me about someone they knew who had DIED! of pneumonia in the last couple years, which is always encouraging.
All in all, I'm feeling better. Being able to move; Being able to sit outside; Being able to yell at my kids; It's the little things that we take for granted.
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Creepy man in the last picture. He freaked me out when I saw the movie the first time!
Don't push yourself too hard.
Matt, I really do hope you get better soon! Hurry up and start singing again!
But then again, we would miss out on some pretty funny pics without the illness :)
Even sick you crack me up! I'm bummed you won't be singing with me this weekend - but I'm just going to keep praying that you get better soon! I've been told this pneumonia thing is similar (in length) to the asthmatic bronchitus I seem to get every fall - it takes 6-8 weeks to really get back to your old self, so don't overdo it!!! Rest, sleep, etc... take some notes from my boys on my blog if you need some interesting locations to fall asleep in - my office chair is open! ;o)
Matt I'm glad to see your feeling a little better and glad your back blogging too!!! I know you and don't push it.....or you might die. I can't believe someone told you that.
Thanks for the great conversation last Friday it was nice to have a great laugh but your laugh was a little coughy. You sounded like you had just smoked a pack of cigs!
Maybe I did, or maybe...I DID!
Oh yeh, I knew someone who had pneumonia and coughed so hard they exploded and died...3 times!! C'mon, really...whoever told you that should be...uh (trying not to be violent...can't say waterboarded...), well, repremanded good. Like when I thew a full glass of ice water in my daughter's face at the dinner table for purposely belching during dinner...(after YEARS of "please don't..."). One of my finer mom moments...and you should've seen everyone's faces! You have my permission to do that to your next "I knew someone who died" person.:-)
Ohhhh...water in the face. That' made me laugh out loud. Aren't people funny though? It was 3 different people - heather had one too. "My friend thought he had pneumonia and when they did the x-ray there were spots on his liver; and it was cancer."
"Cancer? Really?" Well, thanks for that."
O.k...top this. One of our "friends" said "I want to tell you something terrible that I heard on the news the other day about pneumonia...I thought of you and Matt". To which I actually heard the Lord tell me to tell her to stop talking and don't tell me. So I say calmly, "you know what ****, (that is the code for her name.) please don't tell me, I am kind of in a worried state right now and would rather not hear something that might scare me." To which she blabbed on and on about something else and then came back to this..."Oh; what I was going to tell you is that there is this new deadly strain of bacterial pneumonia out that is killing people overnight!" To which I made a note to self...."stay away from ****." If only a glass of ice water would travel through a phone receiver.....argh!!!!
ah, to be able to sit outside and yell at the kids....those ARE the finer things in life......and lmao at the deadly strain of pneumonia....but now that i've laughed about it, i'm sure to get it.
ahahhahaha....none of that is funny...the whole dying thing...so why is it that I am rolling in my chair, and my kids think I am a FREAK...
...and that last pic...seriously, made me laugh before I even read the post.."your not so very smart dr...remember me..." freakin me out..
Why is it when you're down in health (or any way for that matter) people feel the need to totally disregard your feelings and emotions and proceed to tell you horrible, horrible things about what you're experiencing.
Young people don't die from pneumonia anymore.
For crying out loud, John Goodman filmed The Flintstone Movie (way back when) while he had DOUBLE Pneumonia!!! He's still alive & kicking.
I'm glad you & Heather are such good people... I would've been so fed up- I would've been the Donnie Wahlburg in my underwear ready to shoot people who even attempted bringing up sickness to you guys. I mean, c'mon- you'd think people would know you're dealing with it first hand, it's getting old already, you probably don't wanna talk about it anymore.
(side note) this is SO going to make my post forever long (AGAIN- I know, you're gonna kill me)
Jeremy & Leslie are playing a video game and he says to her (slightly irritated) "Can you try not to die?"
So Matt- Can you try not to die? That'd be a good question for Heather to ask you in front of the medical losers who talk about death all the time.
jeez... I'm such a blog hijacker
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