Maybe if the hospitalizations in the month of November had stopped there then things would have been okay, but life with major medical diagnoses is never that easy. First I went to the hospital for dehydration, Immediately after that bloodwork showed that my potassium was dangerously low. I had to rush back to the hospital.
I had barely finished the IV antibiotics for the UTI when I started to feel really dizzy and lightheaded all the time. I would never in a million years have connected feeling dizzy and lightheaded with my g-tube drainage bag
“Your lips look so dry,” Jeff kept telling me, “Do you need Chapstick?”
“I’ve been putting tons of it on,” I told him, showing him the Chapstick I carried in the purse that I kept clipped to the arm of my wheelchair.
During the first week of November, I started having that familiar urinary urgency and pain. I was attempting to catheterize myself constantly. Each time I catheterized all I got out was a few dribbles. Really, my bladder was empty, but I was having spasms. The spasms were making me feel like I had to pee so badly. Right off the bat, I knew I had yet another UTI.
I was closing in on my first year spent at Side by Side Assisted Living. I was also only 26 years old. As bad as that sounds, it was one of the best years of my life. From my very first tour there, I knew I was going to love it there. The assisted living ad rescued me. Before moving into assisted living I’d been at a nursing home. I suffer from a disease called autonomic small-fiber neuropathy. A disease that has stolen my childhood and adolescence from me.
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