Late Updates

6/16/11

So its been quite some time since I put fingers to keyboard and gave everyone another glimpse into my life. This year has been tumultuous thus far to say the least. Who knew when I blogged about not feeling well, it would actually turn into something serious. I had a fever that was high to the point of almost feeling delirious. Ever felt like a fever alone would kill you? Yea it was like that.

To make a very long and complicated story as short as I can, I was very lucky and my wonderful doctor had the forsight to just have me checked into the hospital and no more ER, in where they found out I had an infection in my liver that had spilled into my bloodstream. Hearing the words Your septic isn’t very encouraging and seeing fear in my parents were even more worrisome.

After two weeks I went home with IV meds but after about 3 weeks I had to be checked back into the hospital for an additional week for another Fever, After a liver biopsy, lung aspiration and being diagnosed with a blood clot I was sent home again.

I was hoping I was on the mend and had to wait two weeks to see my transplant docs in Orlando where they decided I needed to check into the hospital in Miami to determine whether or not they wanted to do surgery to fix the problem. So the following week I went to Miami where they determined that they didn’t want to do surgery now but just play a waiting game and prayerfully this was just a one time occurrence.

All and all I am on the mend. I finally get to tend to a knee injury that didn’t get properly addressed in January when I hurt it. Im tired all the time which is completely contrary to my personality. Its like ok heres a bunch of time, but you will spend most of it laying down resting your knee and sleeping. Its funny what God will do to make you sit and listen. Ive learned a lot in these past few months and hopefully the wisdom and lessons learned will come forth in more blogs to come. Im just happy to have the chance to still be alive.

Signing Out,

Deanna Amarica

**I wrote this a few weeks ago and just am getting to post it. I'm such a slacker, but I have a whole lot more to say so I had to start somewhere**