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I'm still alive.....barely......here's the scoop......

Ok, first off, I've been SO sick for almost 2 weeks now. Started with bronchotis, sinus infection, ear infection. On the 17th, the Dr put me on prednisone, amoxicillin, Tylenol#3, and an inhaler. About 5 days later, I was feeling better except for a HORRIBLE cough. I've been "sleeping" in the recliner for all this time. I can NOT lie down without coughing up a lung.

Finally yesterday, I went back but had to see a different Dr. He did a chest xray, and thankfully it's still just bronchitis, but I can't shake it! So now I'm on another round of prednisone; had me stop the amoxicillin and started a new antibiotic, a new inhaler 2x a day............fast forward to last night/evening. NOW I'm on crutches....had my 2nd set of xrays for the day at the ER about about 7pm.

LONG story......4 years ago I "badly sprained" my left ankle. I told the ER drs then several times that something was broken as I heard and felt the snap.....nope nope....a bad sprain they said. Since then, it's given me problems. It'll start to "go" (and when it does, the ankle is locked, tilted inward and I canNOT put any pressure on it at all....it's SO painful)

I've found a trick over the years....when I feel it starting to catch, I can stop movement in that ankle, shift my body, and somehow it's all good. OR, if it does seize up, I can wiggle it enough to get another pop and then it's fine....zero pain....it's the weirdest thing.

Anyways, last night, I went to sit on the couch (bad habit of sitting on my foot doesn't help) and LittleE leapt behind me...giggling her butt off saying "gonna take your spot!" So I shifted quickly to just sit on the edge....I felt it start to go but I couldn't stop it without squashing LittleE.

I wiggled, cried, jiggled, everything that normally works after about 5 minutes and canNOT get it to go back. The neighbor finally convinced me that I needed to go to the hospital. I can't walk at all....just resting it on the floor is agony.

So anyways they did another xray. (I had told them about the "sprain" 4 years ago) After looking at it, the ER Dr said "that was no sprain, it was broken. All these years, what you've been dealing with off and on is a piece of bone floating around in there and now it's jammed into the ankle joint, it's stuck....it'll have to be removed"

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY for me. :( SO I'm on crutches and can't be seen by the surgeon till friday.....THEN who knows how long before anything will be done.

These are our last 3 days of moving....say nothing about wanting/needing to clean this house before that time also. I'm done....I'm kaput....I'm in the recliner. No sick time, no pay....blah blah blah.....WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?!?!?!?!

Just wanted add.....Erin, I've already told OldestA (after she freaked and said "MOM! We're still going to NJ right?") that if I have to go in a wheelchair, we WILL be going.....if I have to crawl on my hands a knees....we WILL be going.....now worries. LOL