Wow, an update who would have thought!

So, I kind of abandoned this blog a few years ago. There is a real reason for it too. I started a new one with a more real open personality to it. All about my lifestyle. Maybe someday I would link these two but not for now. I write to you this morning much like I seem to have wrote about on here while being in a hospital. I was checked in on Sunday morning two days after Christmas with full blown pneumonia. I had been having problems with it for over 5 plus weeks. It escalated a couple days before Xmas by providing fevers and chills which made me finally get to class it from "just that cough everyone's got" to oh, you need to see a Dr. Which I had been doing a lot anyway. They checked me in after it was decided it was going to take IV antibiotics and breathing treatments / steroids to make it better. This marks my first overnight hospital stay in my life. Grr getting old sucks. The one night stay though has turned into a 3 night so far. Hoping to get released this Wednesday. I would like to be out for New Years! They have switched me a few times on the antibiotics and yesterday morning scared me with a sentence that they were going to speak with the infectious diseases unit with my case because of a blood cell count that raised. However that wasn't deemed necessary and was attributed to the steroids causing it to raise also my blood sugars. This event also had me on insulin for the first time in my life. They couldn't use my metformin for some reason it can interact with the other treatments they say, so they use a slide rule insulin device. It really hasn't lowered my sugar down where it should be. I never been this high for a long time. hopefully when I'm away from these steroids it will go back and I can start exercising again. Lord knows I have plenty of gym memberships to use.