Dear Church Family, strike that
Dear Friends and Enemies.
Recently my health problems have not been liver related so I suppose I can be thankful for that small mercy.
My problems began with my hospitalization on August 30 or September 1 I am not exactly sure which day of the week it was. I have a rather severe infection that possibly started in my kidney. The doctors are not exactly sure when is began or where it could also have begun as a bladder infection but with my poor health it is hard to tell.
Well wherever it started I now have a bad infection that is in both my Kidneys as well as it is now in my bladder. All of which means that the past 3 weeks have been miserable. My white Cell count is still high. I only hope they find a regime of antibiotics that begins to work soon.
I say that because the pain killers they give me do not help very much at all. I think the worst part has been the past couple of days of vomiting and when I don't vomit I am left feeling damnably nauseous. I have also had very little strength. I think I will be back in the hospital by this time tomorrow it all depends onwhat the doctor says tonight.
What I can tell you all is this. My infection is not responding well to the antibiotics. A normal infection should have responded or cleared up by now. Mine has not cleared up it seems to have slackened off somewhat and I am feeling a bit better but I do not feel anywhere near well yet.
The reason I say I don't think it has not responded well to the treatment is because I do not feel that I have gotten any better. I have spent the past 3 weeks in a immense amount of pain, passing blood frequently and often. I am in pain every time I have to void..
try to Imagine that you have Kidney stones every single day for the past 3 weeks and that you are tryign to pass one every couple of hours well take that feeling and you pretty much have what describes the kind of pain I am having to deal with every day for the past 3 weeks.
I think they called it a Pyelonephritis infection. I am not sure if I am spelling that correctly or if that is even what the doctor said it was.. I think that's what it is but I am not sure.
So if you do pray please keep me in your prayers
Signed
Devan
September 17 2012
