Clinical Trial - Update on My Condition

Well, last weekend was not as fun as I had hoped for. I ended up Sunday Morning with a real bad case of my muscles on the right side of my body being tense and causing me all kinds of pain whenever I moved. Needless to say I called off work and Carm emailed the Physician's Assistance when my temperature spiked 101.4F and she didn't get a reply right away, so this stressed her out more then needed. The reply was sent, but rejected and cause was a wrong reply to address; so with this fixed everything is working fine now.
I was using a heating pad and pain killers on lower back and I ended up with a blister on my lower back, so I ended up putting an ice pack on that and rested a little more. The blister is healing fine now and the pain killers have been changed, since the first ones where only lasting for about 4 hours. On Monday, Carm and I drove up to Karmanos and I was immediately placed in a treatment suite and had 3 or 4 Nurses running around trying to get a needle in my arms, so that they could draw blood, from my arm and my port. The Port draw was easy, since all they have to do is put the needle in my chest, secure it and start to access it. After a few minutes, one Nurse finally found, what she called a "blind vein" in my right Arm, and was able to get blood from there. They drew out blood into culture bottles that looked like mini liquor bottles, then sent them off to the Lab to be tested. Ends up results came back that I have Pneumonia in my Right Lung, which caused the muscles to tense up and cause all the pain. Prescriptions where written for CiPro, Antibotic and another stronger Pain Killer. I was also given an excuse to cover me for being out of work until Wednesday and my Supervisor called on Tuesday to find out what was happening, she told Carm, to make sure that I bring it in today, so that I'm covered for the lost time. I'm feeling a little better now and still have a dry cough, plus I'm spitting up a bunch of junk and this is helping to clear my lungs out. I'm also getting headaches, which a couple of Tylenol and this helps for a little bit. My voice is sorta horse sounding, so it will be interesting to see if I can survive the 8 hours I am suppose to work today, only time will tell. I work from 1p until 9:30p, so I'll see how that goes. I'm making sure that I have enough fluids with me, since I cotton mouthed at times when I am talking, and this should help with that, plus I have some mints in my desk also. :) Well, I must be getting ready for work here soon and a couple of other things to do, so I'll end this here. More in the coming days.

Clinical Trials - Week 2

The Weekend proved to be interesting with a few minor side-effects, Saturday I woke up and had chest pains, whenever I inhaled deeply, so I called the Doctor at Karmanos and she said that it sounded like it was more Muscl-skelator in nature and adcvisde that if I had shortness of breath or the pain got worse to get the the ER. Sunday Early morning I was a wakened by a sharp stabbing pain in my lower right back, it felt like someone had just punched me there, so I laid still and fell back a sleep and woke up with a little pain there whenever I moved just right.
Well, this week was another week of Monday being a long 12 hour day again, the Hospital Food still hasn't improved, sighs, one could only have hoped for a little improvement, lol! I came home and was wired of course from the anti-nausea meds and steroids that I was given,so I was up later then I would've like. The upside was I didn't have the pain in my back or my chest anymore, YAY!!!
Tuesday was the usual day of dropping off the Urine Collection, getting blood drawn and new collection bottles. After the Nurse went over everything to make sure that was no changes, I did note a loss of appetite, so she advised to keep an eye on it. The constipation was with me, but now it has gone bye-bye, lol.
Today, was another day of waking up with Sinsus Congestion and a Dry Cough, which I told the Nurse about and I saw the Physician's Assistance and she gave me a Script for a Z-pack...Yummy!!!!! LOL. Collection Bottles in hand, Carm and I walked out of Hospital after 3pm, since I had to be fitted into the PA's schedule this after noon, so needless to say today was a little longer then I would've liked it to be :(. No, I did not pick up the Antibiotics, since I fell asleep this afternoon and by the time I got motivated the Pharmacy was closed. Tomorrow will be fun, with driving up, then meeting some friends in Monroe. Yes, I'll get my drugs before going to Detroit :).
On the agenda for Thursday will be to confirm the rest of my schedule for the Trial and go from there with getting my life back into the routine of going to work and coming home to hang out. These last 2 weeks have been a pain in the arse, since I was suspended at work and was not paid. More updates to follow as I get them. Have fun and be Safe.