Do you know what pneumonia sounds like? I do… now! Todd thought it sounded like I had pop rocks in my mouth, but it turns out it was just all of the nasty, infected, bacteria fluid in my lungs crackling away. I could feel it moving when I would lay down on my side… I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me that there was fluid in my lungs and that I had pneumonia! I started off with the flu and then, a week later, was still so sick! So, I went on got an x-ray and blood work…. It still took another week before I was functional and even then was getting out of breath and exhausted after anything I did. It has been rough, but I’m finally (almost) fully functioning. I have to take it easy when I get movin’ around too much… and I’m still coughing up, well, you don’t want to know about that. It has been fascinating to learn about pneumonia… I just didn’t realize HOW BIG OF A DEAL it can be. I can understand why and how 1 out of 3 people died from this before antibiotics. I don’t think I have ever been this sick in my life. I would like to thank my mother and American Idol for aiding immensely in my recovery!!!!
This is pretty much all that my family saw of me for 2 weeks. In fact, Gwen got in the habit of asking me, first thing in the morning, every morning, “Are you still sick today?”
