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Ok, so thursday night i went into the hospital emergency room. I went while i could still walk. It was either go willingly or wait till i passed out and have the ambulance take me in.

So i got in, and the nurse took all of my vitals and gave me a mask to wear since i was coughing. My heart rate was up (in a bad way) and my blood pressure was way~ down.

So i didn't have to wait that long in the waiting room, i got my little hospital bracelet and i walked into one of the rooms.

My cute asian doctor, Dr. Dew, came in and checked everything out and asked my a whole bunch of questions. He asked me why i finally decided to come in and i said that i had been feelig really lightheaded and weak. So weak that i could barely get up and walk around.

so he said that he needed a blood sample, chest x-rays and that he would have to set me up on and i.v drip because i was severly dehydrated (even though i had been knocking back water like no tomorrow.)

so some ladt came in and took my blood, my arm is all nice and bruised now. and then a nurse sent me upstairs for my x-rays.

i brought them down and then had to change into a hospital gown and then i was set up on the i.v drip. I had to have one and a half bags of fluids.

while i was on the i.v. the nurse came in and set me up with an oxygen mask where some menthol medicine came up to help me breath.

so after spending four hours in the ER i found out what was wrong. Here's the list:

- Severly dehydrated
- my airways are inflammed thus making it hard for me to breath, thus not getting enough oxygen
- my chest is too tight, thus constricting my lungs.
- i have bronchitis
- i also have pneumonia in my right lung.

so yeah, my body sucks. lol.

i am now on two puffers, and two bottles of medicine.

one of the pills and the puffers are steroids to help open my airway so i can breath. the orange puffer i have to take for a full month. and the other bottle of pills if for the bronchitis and pneumonia. *sighs*

you know it's pretty bad when you have to keep trak of when you have to take and stop taking your medicine by marking it on the calendar.

so i'm exhausted. i'd forgotten how tired this makes me. I hope i don't have this to look forward too every year.