Pneumonia.....

Had my first experience, and hopefully LAST with pneumonia this week.....not fun!  If you've never had it before, like me, this is how things progressed.  Maybe you can recognize symptoms and go get checked.  It's so not fun....


First, it started with a fever on last Friday.  In the middle of the night I started coughing...it felt as if my lungs got filled with liquid ( I hate the word phlegm) instantly.  So, I thought I had a cough and a fever..no biggie.


Then Saturday late night my body hurts all over along with the fever and cough.  As you can imagine, I think I have the flu at this point. No biggie. 


Sunday, I wake up and I'm super tired.  Cough is getting worse, body aches ever present, fever comes and goes at will...mysteriously.  I decide I'm well enough to go to Waimea to participate in our weekly Sunday family soccer jaunt....Well, the dose of cold air, coupled with mist and wind did not agree with me.  I had a spicy curry (Thai food) in an attempt to 'kill those nasty flu germs'....didn't help.  Came home feeling worse...straight to bed for a sleepless night. 


Monday morning, it's storming!!! Yay...great excuse for my sons to stay home all day and watch TV and play video games, and for mom to do the bare minimum all day and stay in bed as much as I can.  On this day, I'd have to say I felt like I did on Sunday..not worse, but not better.  However, my fatigue had grown and my attitude was HORRIBLE!!  I had zero tolerance for just about anyone and anything.  "Irritable" is an understatement.  This is also the day the SWEATS started; fever, profuse sweating, followed by cold clammy skin, then a fever again....such was the crazy vicious cycle. I just tried to yell, I mean... sleep! it off.But, sleep and I were not getting along because of our third-wheel..Ms. Cough.   


Then, Tuesday....the beach day! I wake up feeling bad, to say the least...still feverish.  A friend invites me early in the morning to the beach to meet a visiting author from New Zealand.  I "feel" I should go...so I don't know how but I load the kids in the car and go straight to the beach.  I'm sitting on the sand and literally feel like I want to punch someone.  My attitude/disposition has deteriorated tremendously...my cough is hard, strong, and painful...yet doesn't seem to accomplish much as far as clearing my lungs.  My head is APOUND! Migraine quality headache to add to the mix.  I left the beach after an hour as I wasn't feeling like very "good company".  My fever Tuesday night was brutal...I remember feeling like I was smoldering...and wondering if I was getting brain damage.  Then, I'd start sweating and drenched the sheets, and start shivering...going to sleep on the couch to not wake my husband and baby...fun stuff!!!


Wednesday......ER day..hooray!  Well, upon waking...I thought for sure I had sweat the nasties out...but no. I had a fever, and could barely move, breathe, or talk.  My headache was a whopper, and I felt I had exhausted the helpfulness and patience of my sons and husband.  Everyone seemed tired. My  body hurt, my very skin ached.   It felt as if a giant invisible foot, about 6 feet long was holding me down, smashing me into the ground, keeping me from moving.  Everytime I tried to envision my throat and chest area to send healing energy to my body, I saw the whole area glowing in fire.  Breathing felt like inhaling warm fire water.  A strange sensation indeed...and accompanied by my good old friend the sweats....that came and left faster now.  I was crawling on the floor to the bathroom,sobbing in desperation, and finally dialed the phone to my doctor who wasn't in that day. So, I decided to go to ER and see what was going on...something was definitely not right, and I let go to the fact that I needed help.DUHHH!!!  My husband took off from work and drove me to Waimea ER...because I don't like the Kona Hospital!...but it was worth it.  After, an IV and a chest X-ray I got diagnosed with Pneumonia, and was given anti-biotics...which I'm LOVING right now.  I am feeling better everyday.  Slowly, but surely..I feel things healing up inside. My energy is coming back and my chest is clearing. 


Lesson learned!!! Don't wait so long before I get help.  Just go to the dam doctor.  I'm one of those people who like to drink ginger tea, and will myself to health, blah, blah,..sometimes it works. But, I had some nasty something! And sometimes everybody just needs a little Anti-biotics.  Saved my day! Pneumonia..NO MAS!

Two little Rocks....'Elua mau Pohaku

My daughter, age one and a half is obsessed with two cinder rocks she got out of grandmother's garden! I've tried a good year to get her to play with toys...spent quite a few dollars on cute toys that look like any typical baby would play with...but none has ever caught her attention for more than a minute. 
She has not put these rocks down for a good 15 minutes.. she's so engaged.  It's the little things in life that matter like finding two rocks that make you happy.

Aloha!!!

Aloha and welcome to my blog....it is a rainy po'akahi (Monday) and the first Monday of summer!  I've decided to create my blog and use it as an online journal of sorts to record my projects, ideas, accomplishments, life happenings, and just plain randomness...
welcome!  to all things Kanani Enos...well most things!