Good morning, everyone. I'm sorry I didn't get a weigh in post done last week. I think I mentioned that I'd be traveling for a couple of weeks and it got a lot more involved than I'd ever dreamed it could.
The purpose of my travel was a small sibling gathering. The event that brought us together was a great nephew's graduation party and since I have a couple of siblings that are in their late 80's with poor health, we decided this would be a good time to bring us all together.
We had a great gathering, which also included some nieces (daughters of a long deceased brother) that we hadn't seen in a long time. It was great to see them, as well as all my siblings. In order to pull off this gathering, I had to fly to South Dakota, then drive one sister (who has macular degeneration) to another sister's in Iowa, then drive all 3 of us to our brother's in St Louis.
On the way to St Louis, one sister began coughing and not feeling so well. We ended up taking her to urgent care the next day because she has Stage IV lung cancer and we couldn't take any chances. She's on immunotherapy treatments for her cancer and had had a treatment the day before, so I think that helped her quite a bit. Anyway, before we got back to her house in Iowa, my other sister started coughing and was the next to be ill. That sister also has immunotherapy to keep leukemia/lymphoma in remission, but her treatments got mixed up and hers hadn't taken place on time!!
Of course, by the time we made the drive across Iowa, back to SD, I wasn't feeling well and yep - you guessed it - I got whatever my sisters had. To add insult to injury, I was grilling burgers one night and got bitten by a dog. It got my left hand and left 2 large, deep puncture wounds. I ended up going to urgent care, as well because it was suspected that I had pneumonia, plus I needed to have the bite checked for infection. They did a chest x-ray and some blood work - came back negative for pneumonia. I was given a prophylactic antibiotic for the dog bite, which would also help with any bacterial infection that might crop up in my lungs/sinuses.
I was terribly ill and did nothing but wheeze and sleep for 2 days - combination of being sick and in pain from the bite. I did end up delaying my flight home because I was too sick to fly. 2 days after my visit to urgent care, the hospital called and said they'd found a problem with my chest x-ray - something in my left lung - and recommended a follow up CT to see what's going on. Since I had another flight scheduled, I went ahead and called my primary doctor to fill them in and make an appointment for follow up. I'll go in Tuesday for that appointment.
I had a flight scheduled to fly home last night and was actually able to make it. Of course, our departure was late, so our arrival was too, but we ended up getting home about 2:00 am. I had a horrible time getting to sleep, but once I did, I slept very soundly. I'm horribly tired - still a combination of not being completely well, the dog bite still being swollen and painful and adding in some "jet lag".
Of course, I've left out a lot of details, but even through all of that, I ended up gaining 4 pounds, which isn't as bad as I'd anticipated since I ate tons of food I don't normally eat and got very little exercise. I'm not happy that I'll have to start over with trying to lose it in order to get back down where I was, but I'm happy I didn't gain more.
I hope you've all had a couple of very successful weeks and look forward to hearing about it.
~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~