finally found out what's wrong with CS!

recap: (this is really just a journal entry for me, so it's wordy, sorry.)

Collin had been feeling muscle soreness and sick for a week or so..and it worsened after the haboub.

Last Thurs he's so bad, he has to stay home from work.

Fri it's worse and we go to Urgent Care.  Collin is having severe muscle pain, fever, chills, no appetite, catch in lungs, etc. They rule out strep. They take a chest X-ray and rule out pneumonia. They take blood, tell us it's a week to hear back from that, and tell us it's just a flu and to just rest. They prescribed vicodin for his pain.

Sat he eats some fruit because he can barely take two bites of anything at a time. He takes a vicodin. We go to our hypnobirthing class, and during it he goes white as a sheet, runs to the bathroom and throws up. I mean so violently that he gives him whiplash in his neck and now when he coughs it hurts so badly that I have to hold his neck and push hard. it feels to him that his head will explode off his neck if I don't. He sleeps sat and feels better at night. Fever still going up and down.

Sun morning, there's no way he's going to church. (and I haven't slept in days but I decide I need to go. Glad I did because we had the most amazing lesson on the atonement.) But Sunday afternoon collin is worse. all he can eat the whole day is a piece of bread, two bites of plain potato, and two bites banana. and hours apart. he's weak, his heart is racing. he takes half a vicodin because the pain throughout body is so bad, but that just makes him feel crazier. He receives a blessing and is blessed to get the correct medical attention.

Sun night Collin is so sick he can't breathe. everything hurts and nothing makes it better. he had been taking ibuprofen 6 at a time instead of vicodin. that V stuff is evil to his body.  His temp is up again, he's coughing violently and shooting pain in skull, neck, and everywhere else. We find a different urgent care to go to, my mom drives us because I'm having tons of warm-up contractions and can't see well at night and don't feel good at all. My mother is a saint. I love her. This Urgent Care seems so much more competent than the first, but still can't really do anything...but they tell us that Collin's vitals are COMPLETELY "out of whack" and he order him to go to the Emergency Room. His blood pressure is super high, heart is racing over 120, temp of 101, and dehydrated.

So on our way to the ER, I'm so stressed. Like, so STRESSED. Why is this happening? What is going on with him. Seriously, it was scary because he was freaking out and in so much pain. I'm about to question everything that I am and that I believe, but peace and calm come over me as I pray and though neither of us are able to calm completely, I believe everything will be okay.

We get to Chandler ER and sort of thank goodness Collin almost collapses because they take us in RIGHT AWAY in a wheelchair. They take all of his vitals, ask questions, then take him to get blood work. As these two women are working on him (one on each arm) and really developing crushes on Collin even in this zombie-like state, I just had this peace, calm, everything will be okay now feeling.

The night shift was like the show scrubs. And I haven't worn my wedding ring for the past few days because of a little pain and swelling, so one of the nurses called me Collin's girlfriend. We laughed and thought we were so scandalous. hehe.

they get him on Morphine and Toradal for the pain. then an IV to get some nutrients in him (Collin had a rough time with the needles) and he started calming down. his neck was still in pain after that so they had to rule out meningitis. They did! Took more X-rays, saw various nurses and the doctor and guess what...

PNEUMONIA.

I was honestly relieved when we found it out because we knew what it was and what to do and he was already starting to feel better with the correct meds. They put him on two different antibiotics through his IV and Tylenol for the pain. That took a few hours and I sat by his bedside and read him this month's Bon Appetite (very good btw, despite Gweneth Paltro being the feature.) They discharged us at around 2:15am, we went to the Pharm to get his oral 4 day antibiotics, anti-nausea, and Motrin. They said to just take Tylenol and Motrin at the same time for the pain. He also was ordered to stay home till Thursday.

So we got home, went to bed and slept WELL till late this morning. Collin got up at one point and had a fever but took the Ty/Mot combo and it really really worked! His fever was gone this morning and he was able to sit up, get up, and walk around by himself (HUGE IMPROVEMENT. Picture a 7 month pregnant -and getting larger by the day- woman trying to lift her husband out of bed..) And we both got up and ate breakfast. Now we're going to shower, and sleep more. Probably practice some hypnobirthing techniques. PHEW! What a week! What a night! I'm grateful for prayer and family and friends and ward members who really care and the priesthood! Collin will be fine. yahoo!

And the kitties were waiting for us by the door when we got home from the ER. They keep going up to Collin, smelling him and checking on him, and then running off and playing together.

I had to get some pics on CS's phone. What a helpless cutie.