In other news

In other news, I decided I can't keep my puppy Joe. My mother can't keep up with my care and house breaking a dog. Luckily the woman I got him from is willing to take him back. I e-mailed her and I'm just waiting for a reply.We love him to death but I don't want to kill mom. I'm going to miss the little shit.

Pneumonia

I still haven't recovered totally from my pneumonia, part of me thinks this is as good as it gets. And for the first time in my 32 years I seemed to develop some sort of outdoor allergy. I may had the allergies for some time but this is the first time I have really noticed.

Shiley 6

It turns out that my concerns about switching from the Shiley size 8 back to a size 6 were for not. The size 6 fit perfectly and I'm far more comfortable. I bought the Alison Krauss & Robert Plant album Rising Sand from itunes. It recently won the Grammy for Album of the Year. It's a very unique sound and quite good.

January

It's now 2009. The New Year did not start so well for me. I was hospitalized for 16 days, starting New Year's Day, with a bad pneumonia which involved my entire left lung. I was in ICU on one of the hospitals fancy vents. The first procedure they did was a bronchioscope, where they would put a camera down my trach to see how bad the pneumonia was and suction all the crap out. But before they could do it, they had to change my trach from a Shiley 6 to an 8 so the doctor could get the scope in. Once that was over with I felt somewhat better. The Shiley 8 doesn't fit very well and air leaks from my stoma like crazy. It also sticks out. I still have it in. I want to go back to the 6 but I'm not sure I can. I'm concerned my stoma is now too stretched out to go back to the 6. Maybe I'm missing something?

When I was discharged I was only home for 3 days before I had to go back. This time I was in for 9 days with pneumonia that was in my right lung. After about 5 days, we discovered it wasn't a second bout of pneumonia but it was my vent malfunctioning. So they sent it back to be replaced which takes 48 hrs roughly. I was released the next day after receiving the new vent and have been home since. I'm about 80-90 % and getting stronger at a pretty good rate.



My sister got me a puppy. He is a day over 2 months old, a Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix also known as a JackChi. I call him Joe. A very nice homecoming gift indeed.

I love technology

I spent $322 at future shop today! I got my network up and running again. I should also be getting my laptop tomorrow from Dell. I bought a 500GB desktop hard drive and a new mouse for Mom.

Well much to blog about this evening. Two events I'm excited about attending, the first is the Redbull Air Race which will be held on the Detroit River on the weekend of May 31st and the second is Reba McEntire at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor on July 17th (My sisters' 30th birthday, she understands, she'll just receive a larger $$$ gift from me) .

Today my attendant Janice and I went to the city. I bought my Mom a 19" flat screen monitor for Mother's Day at Best Buy and had a nice lunch at Moxy's followed by a stop at Green Earth my favourite retail store. I picked up a cool cd, African Sunrise, very good traditional music.

It was Janice's first time taking me out alone. She did a great job!

little rant

What a crazy last couple of days! I broke up with my same sex boyfriend Monday night, came down with a bug the same night, and I can't download Dexter: Season 1 on itunes because I'm Canadian. Canadian Content Laws suck!