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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Bad News

I have to admit I never thought I would be writing these words in my thirties, maybe my eighties, but never did I think in my thirties, especially my early thirties that I would be writing that my young, healthy, 32 year-old husband has pneumonia. Yeah, PNEUMONIA. Did I mention he's 32. I thought 85 year-olds who are on their death bed get pneumonia. I mean, should I be preparing myself for a bout of gout? Now I sound like Dr. Suess.

Dan was really sick all last week and progressively got sicker as the week went on. Friday night (Halloween) I thought he might die, but he went to work and finally that night started an antibiotic. Saturday morning he couldn't breathe, only a minor problem. I drove him to the ER. He ordered his own chest x-ray, which looked like pneumonia to him, but to verify, he found a radiologist friend (who happened to be on call), who took one look at the x-ray and said "Dude, you have pneumonia". The whole ER visit took about 20 minutes! SWEET! Especially since I was waiting in the car with two, 2 year-old girls yelling.

Dan has been SLOWLY getting better since and actually took Monday and Tuesday off of work, which is the first time ever he has not gone to work because of being sick. He tried going into work Wednesday and one of the other doctors had him sent to the ER in a wheelchair! He was so embarrassed! Later that night he decided he felt good enough to go to a conference (again, against MY better judgement). He came home feeling sicker than ever. Then this morning at 5 am his alarm was going off again, as he was shivering and sweating with a fever.
I know at this point most people would say, "Gosh wifey, you're right. I am sick, I should stay home from work today."
That is, however, not what happened. After a few hours at work and sweating and shivering through a presentation, several people said he should go home (who said that first?).

Are all husbands this stubborn?

And, lastly, I wrote a big rant, but decided against posting any of it. I will just leave you with a picture.