Sunday, February 9, 2014

Hello, Sorry it has been so long..life has gotten in the way, but I am going to try and revive this blog!!!  I want to say that I am officially back on the Flylady Wagon!!  I had fallen off a long time again and back into some CHAOS.

Let me give you some history of the past few months, so you will know where I am coming from:  Well, really I guess I need to start a few years ago.  Almost 2 full years ago, I developed an unexplained cough.  It would no go away!!  So, I sought advice from my Dr.  She did all the right things, chest x-ray, acid reflux meds, finally sent me to a Pulmonolgist who diagnosed me with Asthma.  I went on daily Asthma meds and followed all their advice, but it didn't help much.

 Finally, the last week of September I woke up one night short of breath and feeling like someone was stabbing me in the breast.  Very painful, but not being one to panic, I took my inhaler and the strongest pain meds we had in the house and went back to bed.  The next day even though I was still hurting a little bit, but went to work.  I did not get over it during the day so I called the Dr.  She said she thought it was bronchitis and sent me for another chest x-ray.  The next day I called her office for the results.  She said either it was bronchitis or if I was more short of breath and hurting to go to the Emergency Department it could be a Pulmonary Embolism!!   Well guess what!!  3 Pulmonary Emboli, One round of Pneumonia, One round of Renal failure from antibiotic toxicity.  5 hospital stays for a total of 21 days later and I am better.

During this time, I was forced to stay out of work for recovery.. When I was feeling better and bored, I started very slowly cleaning out all my cabinets and closets 15 minutes at a time to regain my strength.  Then low and behold my house was looking cleaner!!  So I looked up the Flylady again on Facebook and on her website and made a plan.  I started with shine my sink and went from there to morning and bedtime routines..So far so good.

Sorry this is so long!!  I will go into more details tomorrow about the routines and what I have set up.

Thanks for reading!!!