Health Updates

Later on September 12th:

Let's see...I've been put on Cipro (an antibiotic) and I had a very painful ultrasound of my liver done. UNMC said that if my bile ducts looked dilated that I was to be transferred to the hospital there. I hear the ultrasound looked normal, but tomorrow we'll find out for sure. My fever went down but then this evening went up to 100.2 . I just want to keep my blankets!!!

Been having a lot of aches and pains today that aren't controlled very well. I've also felt very weak and cranky. Not feeling very happy right now. Still, not a bad day. I made lots of origami and gave a string of stuff to my nurse. I have a barf basin on my table filled with origami things with a sign that says, "Take One! -Becca) except instead of a dash there's a heart by "Becca".

Natalie/Ginny came to see me and got me a balloon and real food from Open Harvest. She also tought me to play the card game, Golf. Thanks, Gin!
Well, I'm off to fall into a drug coma.

September 15th:

Hi all.
I'm still in the hospital (Bryan West, room 504). I've still been running fevers and have E. Coli and a UTI. I've been having a lot of pain and nausea so I've been pretty doped up most of the time. I have a thriving origami business going on. I make things for my nurses and docs and other people started wanting them to so I kept making stuff. Now the whole front of my table is filled with origami. There are papers to take, too. One I wrote out about what Origami Wishes is about and what the different things (like turtles or stars) symbolize to me. The other paper is a copy of the newspaper article I was in. I've been given $1 in tip money and now have a little box sitting out that says TIPS.

Kathy brought me veggie juice yesterday. I cannot even tell you how good that tasted.

Today I got an abdominal CT and I'm still running a bit of a fever. We were thinking I might be able to come home today but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Anyway, there's probably a lot of stuff I'm leaving out but the drugs have made everything kind of a blur.

Later:

Okay, so I may be getting an ultrasound to look at my ovaries to make sure they're not the source of the fever. The fever should be gone by now with this much time on the antibiotic. Also, since bowel stuff is still an issue I'm going to be getting a colonoscopy on Thursday. So I'll be here at least until then.