Day three is here and I'm starting to actually feel like myself. The catheter is being removed today, much to my pleasure and delight! Yesterday I was miserable - the evening in the hospital, the day in the pheresis area, approximately 3 hours of sleep and just not being able to get comfortable. And then there was the cough that rattled through my chest and left my throat feeling as if I swallowed razor blades! So now, 4-5 drugs later, I'm starting to feel somewhat normal (fair to Midland).
I was given (from this point forward to be known as) the Aflack antibiotic, then after my harvesting I was given a scrip for zithrocycin (zpack), robitussin w/ codeine and I still had my vicodin. I took the cough medicine when I first got home expecting to get knocked out and sleep for a good three hours. I slept one! By the end of the night I got myself ready for bed, took my two TBP of cough syrup and two vicodin hoping for the best. When I woke I felt better than I'd felt in days. Then I realized t was only 330 in the morning. I took more cough syrup, one more vicodin and went back to sleep - or at least tried. I guess I just don't react to drugs a expected. So I did sleep from about 1000-0330 but nuthin after that.
I've now had the catheter removed and am feeling pretty good. Still am not over the cough/cold but can feel the antibiotics working. You are all lucky as I opted out of taking a picture of the catheter after it was removed. It wa pretty amazing - snipping the stitches hurt more than pulling out the cath.
Enough for now. (not checking for errors!)
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