Just got back from the hospital!

Had a fairly nice stay at Trumbull Memorial Hospital this last week. Had a chance to lay in bed, rest, have antibiotics pumped through my veins constantly and share rooms with a guy that was in more pain than I was. It all started on Friday when I had to get my stomach checked because it was hurting so bad (actually, I had gone to urgent care on Wednesday and they diagnosed it as a urinary tract infection). After getting a CATscan they came to the conclusion that I had, get ready for it, DIVERTICULITIS.
Now any of you SNL (Saturday Night Live) fans out there remember Doug and Wendy Whiner. They always complained about their diverticulitis. We all laughed at it. We thought it was silly. I mean, what a name for a sickness, it just sounds like a made up word! Well, I got news for you, it's no laughing matter! It feels like you just got kicked in the groin and the pain never goes away! (On a side note, diverticulitis is an inflamed diverticulosis so Doug and Wendy, most likely have diverticulosis not diverticulitis.)


I love staying in the hospital. You always have at least one person on the floor that is out of their mind and just yell peoples names, "Laura, Laura, Norma, Nancy, Nurse, Miss, Mommy" constantly all night long. Plus you have a nice uninterrupted sleep all night long. "Mr. Robison I need to take your temperature, Mr. Robison I have your new antibiotic can you tell me your full name, date of birth, allergies, social diseases, government bond serial numbers, blood type ....." And the food is always so good, I was on a clear liquid diet for the first few days which included broth, jello, and tea. Next I retired to FULL liquid diet which included cream of wheat for breakfast (still trying to figure out how that's a liquid) and strained soup for lunch and dinner. And don't forget the mighty shake!!! YUMMY!

It was mostly cleared up by Tuesday and I thought the doctor was going to send me home that day but when I had the CATscan (I know that's not how you spell it but I also know it's annoying some of you! ) they found a small spot on my kidney and they wanted to get a biopsy on the kidney so, blessing of blessings, I got to stay another day!

The biopsy went well and they found it was only scar tissue (which leads me to another question, how do you get scar tissue on a kidney?) And I got to come home today, PRAISE THE LORD! Now if I only didn't have to go back next week for skin graphs where they put all the adhesive during my stay! What kind of glue do that use on hospital tape anyway? I'll tell you this much, if it ever got out on the free market the superglue/crazyglue companies will be out of business!