I got out of the hospital today! When I went in to the hospital I was pretty sick and now I feel much better. I really don’t like being in the hospital because it is pretty boring especially after I start feeling better. My mom or dad stay with me and we watch movies and play games like connect four. I play a lot of video games with my dad and brother. My best friend Joe P. came to visit me on Sunday and we had a good time. Most of my family comes to visit me. I can’t get any flowers when I am in the hospital because flowers have things in them like pollen, dust and mold that can float through the air and get kids like me sicker than they already are, You can’t bring me any food because I don’t eat too much and things don’t taste good anyway. I also can’t get any balloons because many people are allergic to latex so they won’t allow them in the hospital. Overall being in the hospital sucks beyond belief!
If you wonder what I go through when I go to the hospital:
They take my vital signs…draw labs from both of the tubes in my chest…stick me in my arm to draw more blood…give me IV fluids …give me antibiotics like vancomycin…ceftazadime and mirapenim…I wait in the clinic for a hospital room…they take my height and weight…I had a CT scan of my abdomen…I had a GI consult for belly pain (they thought I might have had cholecystitis – inflamed gall bladder)…I got 2 units of blood…I got 2 units of platelets…I got woken up every 4 hours (for 7 straight days) so they could check me…I got a shot every night…I took about 10 pills a day for fever, high blood pressure, potassium and phosphorus supplementation…I might be checked for a peptic ulcer too!”