Waking up in the hospital by Bratprince

A lot of you guys have been super sweet on Facebook regarding my recent little health glitch. I can't thank all of you enough for the really kind messages of concern and support. Many of you asked me what exactly happened so I will briefly try to explain. I woke up on Tuesday night having some trouble breathing. Gary and I talked about it because I really was sort of gasping for air thus he drove me to the emergency room. By the time I got there my breathing was so shallow that the doctors decided to intubate me. I don't really remember them doing it and I really don't remember much until I woke up about 14 or 15 hours later. By this time I was breathing on my own and they had removed the inbubation tube. I have been intubated before thus I am really glad I don't remember much about it this time...it is a scary thing. I had to stay until early Thursday evening in the hospital because my blood pressure was very low and I needed to go through a round of antibiotics and breathing treatments. I have Lupus and Lupus can do very strange things. Lupus is an auto-immune disease causing your own immune system to not recognize helpful white blood cells thus your own immune system attacks itself. This time it just decided to do it around my lungs and caused a minor amount of fluid in the lungs and respitory distress. Obviously, it wasn't serious enough to keep me in the hospital for weeks (like the last time a number of years ago) and REALLY FOLKS...I am doing just fine. Aside from I.V. marks all over my arms and a few patches of chest hair ripped out from the things they put on to monitor your heart...I really am okay. I just have to take it easy for a few days. So, there you have it. I'm lucky that this was so minor and I do appreciate all the love and support! No worries...I will back to full speed in a day or so and hitting the streets for my run!