Don't Do This

Well, I'm out of the hospital and feeling much better. So what exactly happened? Nobody seems to know for sure.

It started two weeks ago with a common antibiotic fighting a simple infection. Then one antibiotic became two, then three. The infection, meanwhile, morphed into drug-resistant staph. Then came the high and persistent fever, the dehydration, the dizziness and nausea, and two trips to the emergency room. At the end, I was checked into in the hospital, given an IV, and told to hang tight until my sodium and white blood cell counts came back up.

Most likely I was having an allergic reaction to one of the drugs, or an opportunistic virus snuck in at just the wrong time (or maybe a little of both). I'm a little disappointed that the doctors were not able to say for sure, given how much of my blood they managed to extract and test.

But either way, it's good to be home again. Although I'm not quite 100% in the vim & vigor department, I'm back at work tomorrow. And that sounds fine by me.