my life.

So this week was my first week back to work.  It was great!  I decided a couple of months ago to try to go back to the place that I worked before I got sick.  It just felt right.  And I think it was a comfort thing for me as well.  I was a little nervous about going back to work after all that has went on, but everything just kind of fell back into place.  You have no idea how worried I was.  It is just SOOO nice to feel human again… to be back to work makes me feel like all of “that” is in my past.

So… just to catch up on the changes:

In summary:
5 hospital visits (about 31 days total)
2 blood transfusions
2 IV PicLines (16 weeks total)
11 days without walking
3 months on a cane
2 months of Home Health (changing IV’s)
2 months of Physical Therapy
1 $24,785 hospital bill (among others, but that was the worse)
$30,000 credit card debt
$40,000 hospital/medical bills
4 cases of pneumonia
1 collapsed lung
2 clogged blood vessels in lungs
1 staph infection
1 case of anemia
1 Endocarditis diagnosis
1 Autoimmune Hepatitis diagnosis
1 Hepatitis diagnosis
2 liver biopsies
2 cases of Peroneal Neuropathy
1 case of Ulnar Nerve Palsy
15 pills a day / 1 IM shot a week

1 life that is starting to feel similar to the old me = PRICELESS  HaHa!!!

I cannot even begin to express in words what being back to work means to me.  I have always loved programming and working in the computer industry.  I remember several times lying in hospital with the heart monitor cables, the IVs, watching someone else’s blood travel into my veins, that I just prayed that one day my life would be back to normal and all of these hospitals walls would be nothing but a small piece of tapestry in my minds memory and that is now coming to be REAL.

I really like the people that I work with and just having the opportunity to be the old “Christie” and not the sick Christie just KICKS ASS.  There are exciting things in my future and hopefully  none of which include hospitals, pills, IV’s, or nurses (crossing fingers!).  And for the first time in a while I feel like that future belongs to me and not to my doctors  or my health or my immune system… it is back to being mine.