Hello again from the world of Crohn’s Disease, this year has been one for the books so they say.  I spent way too much time in the hospital (6 hospital stays) either for a bad surgery, crohn’s flare, surgery to fix a previous surgery and my last stay, where I thought I had Covid-19.

That last stay was quite epic, I had developed a fever that started out low and controllable with Tylenol that grew to 103.5 and that’s when the wife took me to the hospital, where my temperature spiked at 107.6, which of course freaked out everyone in the ED (I was relatively calm, as they were pushing pain meds and all sort of fluids into me).  Then they covered me in an ice blanket for like 4 hours, I had the Rigors where my shivers were so bad that I couldn’t control them, I even managed to give myself a leg injury from it bouncing around.  I proceeded to spend three days in the ICU while they brought down my fever.  It wasn’t Covid (thank goodness), apparently, my line in my arm got infected and I had an infection in my blood, or better known as I was Septic, which also isn’t good to get.  They had taken the line out and after testing it for some days they found the bacterial infection and I was on Antibiotics for a few days.  Once they were certain I was ok, they moved me to a regular room (the only one available at the time, in the BURN unit).  Great nurses in the burn unit, but good lord, not a place I wanted to be.  I still remember the sounds of some of the other patients.

After a few more days, I was able to go home and finish recovering at home, which was quite a relief.  Amazingly, I had no Crohn’s symptoms at all through this whole crazy time.  Thank goodness, as I was afraid that the shivering and rigors were going to trigger a flare-up!

In the ten days I was in the hospital, I didn’t have my laptop and couldn’t play any WoW.  Because my wife wasn’t allowed in at first, we decided against it.  I surprisingly didn’t miss the game too much … I did play lots of stuff on my phone though.

Having a chronic disease truly sucks and in January, I’m scheduled to go back in for a surgery with an all new team of doctors.  I’m confident that they’ll be able to fix everything my last surgeon messed up.  Hopefully all will go well.  Until then, I’ll be playing the game!