Holly Hart has a LOT of catching up to do.

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May was a disaster health wise, beyond my fight with cancer.
I lost 4 days to chemo, ( each dose wiped me out for two days. )

I had minor strokes affecting the use of my left arm a few times for a few minutes on 4 days. Each of these meant a trip to the Emergency Room, where I was kept most of the day, except for the one time I was admitted as an inpatient for 4 days.

I kept trying to work, ( I have been working at the hospital doing valet parking), and one day I became dizzy and went to ER where they found my blood pressure was extremely low. ( We’ve been working on my blood pressure as a separate thing. )

Then I had another tiny stroke and again ended up in ER before admission s an inpatient for 11 more days. This time we were also fighting a major infection that they couldn’t knock down, They finally found some was lodged in my chemo port from which it could leak to re-infect me, but they could not get enough antibiotic in to kill it, so they had to remove the port.

I got out on June 1st, but I’ve had trouble finding my get up and go and I still do not have much strength when it comes to getting around on my own two feet.

I’ve been slowly reading some stories, but except for the last two chapters of Penny Lane’s SEE, I’ve read nothing here on BC other than a few blogs. I think that overall, I’m about 3 weeks late other than a bit of EAFOB 2 weeks ago.

My next doctor’s appointment is tomorrow.

I need to work on my stamina and walking, and I hope to go back to work in a week and a half to two weeks. Luckily, I work in the least strenuous of the 4 valet areas.

Holly

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I Know This All Sounds Bad

littlerocksilver's picture

And I know it is bad; however, I was expecting worse. Thank you for giving us an update. You mean so much to all of us. Keep fighting.

Portia

Holly, I hope and pray that

the LORD heals you. I have suffered health wise due to my weight, but GOD saw fit to use the doctors to heal me. I takes meds to keep me healtjy, now.

    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

I hope chemo was sucessful or at least buys you many more years

...Holly.

You are a class act and very helpful to us sometimes writers.

The mini strokes worried me as did the infection. But them both cancer and chemo mess up the immune system and all that inactivity and stress on the body would make stokes more likely.

Even so called healthy people can get strokes from sitting too long on long duration jet flights.

Do keep fighting, Holly.

We would miss you badly.

John in Wauwatosa

John in Wauwatosa

fighting

Daniela Wolfe's picture

Thank you for the update.

I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers and hope you soon find yourself on the path to recovery.


Have delightfully devious day,

Biggest and most

gentle of hugs. I know my scribbles have improved due to your help. But it's not just me, but many of the writers here have benefited from your patient hard work. I hope and pray that you'll improve and heal.

hugs
Grover

Just a lot of hugs

erin's picture

It's so good to hear from you.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Sorry to hear

Angharad's picture

you've had such a rough time, keep hanging in there and you might make a writer out of me yet.

Take care my friend,

Angharad

Angharad

Keep hanging in there Holly.

I know you and I don't chat much but I do follow your work. Let's hope stuff gets better from here on out. Wishing you all the best.

Bevs.

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Take care!

Glad to hear you are doing better. Do take care of yourself and know that your family at Big Closet are with you!
HUGS!

Keep pushing, girl!

I'm sorry to hear what you have to put up with and you have all my best wishes.

I can only echo those above, keep pushing and Get Well Soon!

I know that many of us here have various levels of medical problems but it puts our own troubles into perspective. It gets tricky: do I feel guilty because I'm not as badly off as you?

As for reading SEE, well, um... thank you. I must apologise that the chapters are trickling out so slowly for any number of reasons, health amongst them. And I keep getting side-tracked.

At least you work at a hospital. My nearest one is 30 miles away.

Penny

Glad your getting better

I was just going to write to you & Shalimar to find out what was going on , last you posted was about the cancer .
Whew it sounds like you how a month from the bottom of hell , I am glad you posted that you are on the right road (not better but) to recovery I hope & pray that you keep going in this dirrection.
Please ask Shalimar to post how she is doing with her health
Love you Holly and all you do for us at BCTS good to have you bad
HUGS& KISSES RICHIE2 :-)

Best wishes...

It sounds better than I feared but worse than I'd hoped.

You have my best wishes.

always in my prayers

Hey Auntie Holly ... yeah its the long long lost kitten ... just want u to know that u r in my daily prayers and u deserve nothing less than a miracle. You've dedicated most all your life to giving to others and helping other people ... if anyone deserves a miracle its u and i keep hoping it comes ... in the meantime try to rest. all my love Maggie