Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Christmas today and throughout the holidays. I am so blessed to be able to celebrate another Christmas with my friends and family. And I'm so thankful to Jesus, for his birth, and for his Crucifixion and Resurrection!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!
I have a question for those of you who follow my blog! As some of you know, Ultrase Digestive Enzymes are not being manufactured anymore and most pharmacy's are out of stock. I had a couple of extra months, but I'm on my last bottle. For those of you that have taken Ultrase MT, what have you switched to? Or have you switched yet? or what are your thoughts? I have been on Ultrase my entire life and hate to introduce something new to my tummy :) I have a supply of Creon. I've heard different stories of Creon....of it working, and of it not working very well. I read on the directions that you have to take Creon enzymes 1 hour before you eat something. Well....that doesn't really work in my fast-paced world. With school, etc., there is no way possible for me to remember or have the time to take them 1 hour before I eat. Half the time i don't even know when i'm eating. The great thing about Ultrase was you had a 2 hour time-frame. You could take it within 2 hours before or after you ate.
I know the other choice of Enzymes is ZenPep...which is fairly new. Are there any other choices? Having had a transplant, I don't see a CF doctor, although some of our transplant doctors are CF doctors. I haven't had the chance to ask 1 of the docs.
So i have no clue what to do. Advice? Suggestions?
Thanks!
I can't believe I've already been off from school for 2 weeks. I only have 2 more weeks to go...yikes. Somewhere in the amidst of chaos, I agreed to work last week and this week. Same place I've worked the last 3 Fall semesters. They needed help....i love the place, people, and i could use a little extra $$. So today was my last day. I plan on sleeping a LOT, and resting as much as possible the rest of this week and next week. It's really hard to rest over the Christmas Holidays. I do have a few errands to run and meeting a friend for lunch on Thursday.
My last dose of IV antibiotics is tomorrow morning...yay! I actually don't feel tons better, but for right now...we are just going with the flow. I need some days where I've really rested and allowed my body to recover. So I'll readdress that after Christmas. I'm ready to de-access my port...driving me crazy :)
Grades for the semester were posted yesterday....2 A's and a B..yay!
My brother graduated successfully last Monday, the 13th. I'm so proud of him :)
And that's really all the news I have. Nothing too important. I have some pics i want to post in the next few days. Sorry :) I hope everyone is ready for Christmas and has finished all their shopping...LOL!!!!
As I mentioned in the post before last, I haven't been feeling so well. The Cipro did get me through last weekend and the last few days of school this week. I called my transplant coordinator to get the final results of my sputum culture. Unfortunately, it grew moderate amount of pseudomonas. So this is definitely why I wasn't feeling good. I always have pseuodomona in my sinuses, but we try to keep it from going down into the lungs...and that's what it did.
Unfortunately, I'm not fully sensitive to any oral antibiotics that can kill this bug (or really any bugs). So I had to start IV abx. Luckily, she let me start them at home first and see how I feel. If I start feeling better, then i'll continue doing them at home. If I don't feel a whole lot better by Monday, then they will probably admit me.
I really didn't expect my culture to grow anything...but at least I was able to do a culture and get the right abx to kill the infection.
We had our CFF YPB Christmas Party last night. It was a lot of fun!!
I finished out the 1st semester of nursing school with 2 "A's" and one "B." Not too bad. I'm so proud of myself for being able to complete it. It wasn't the easiest thing with my health acting up towards the end and one hospitalization. But the Lord got me through it and I am so thankful. I can't wait til next semester!!!
In other news: My aunt passed away last weekend, so we have a service for her tomorrow. Please keep her family (she has a daughter and a son), as well as my Mom and her other 2 sisters in your prayers. This was definitely unexpected. She was only in her early 60s (i think she just turned 60) and died of a hemorrhagic stroke.
Also, my brother graduates college on Monday. I'm so proud of him. He has also already secured a job, which is great! I love him so much!
Well, that's all for now! I'll update you later! I hope everyone had a great week!
So I'm hoping to get back to my usual Music Monday posts!! This week's song is by George Strait: The Breath You Take. I thought it was a great song and I love country music...and plus it goes along perfect with CF and lung transplants!
Enjoy! I'm sure many of you have heard this song already! Remember that life is not about the breaths you take, but about the moments that take your breath away. I know i've had many of these moments, especially since my transplant! And I'm so blessed to be able to experience these special moments. With the holidays her, keep that in mind!
This video is from the recent CMA awards. The lyrics are not in it. But here is the lyrics to the chorus:
"Life's not the breaths you take
The breathing in and out
That gets you through the day
Ain't what it's all about
Ya just might miss the part
Life's not the breaths you take
But the moments that take your breath away"
I never would have thought that my blogging days would be so few....who knew?
Anywho...the semester is almost over. I have a final exam Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and then I will be done!!
YAY!! I made it through the 1st semester of nursing school....i can't believe it!!! I'm so proud of myself!!
So i promise more blogging time now that i'll have a break from school. I really haven't had a break from school since last Christmas since i only had 1 week in between spring and summer semester and then in between summer and fall semester. So i'm really looking forward to it.
In the health world...things aren't so hot. I starting "dragging" last weekend. Then Monday and Tuesday i got sick....real sick. I missed class Tuesday morning and had to suck it up and go to clinic on Wednesday, which caused me to miss class then too (which was the last week of school--so that sort of sucked). I went to clinic and labs and xray were ok...but i definitely had some sort of respiratory infection because i had been running low grade fevers and had coughing, wheezing, fatigue, and "all of the above." So I got an oral antibiotic to add to my inhaled TOBI. I started feeling a little better yesterday and feel a little better today. If for some reason I don't keep getting better or backtrack, then they said they will do a bronch and restart IV abx. So I'm just praying i make it through next Wednesday. My PFT's had dropped a good bit (but I also haven't done them since June)
So dinner and movie at a friend's house tonight. I've really enjoyed hanging out with my friends i've met this first semester of nursing school! I really hope that some of them are in my clinical groups next semester!
Off for now...but promise i'll be back SOON!!
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