Life’s a b**ch!

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“You can’t catch a break!” These words from the ER doc last Sunday. After a week of “runs”, I finally went to hospital. “When you were here last, there was an outbreak of C. difficile. Pretty sure that’s what this is, but we’ll take a sample and send it to the lab.”

C. difficile! “What’s the treatment for that?”

“Unfortunately, more antibiotics, although there has been some success with fecal transplants.”

I don’t even want to think about what that involves. Hydrated through IV fluids, I returned home and waited on the results.

“Not C. difficile. It’s a bacteria called Aeromonas veronii. Have you travelled lately?”

“To the hospital and back. What is it again?”

“I had to look it up,” the doctor confessed. “If not from travel then likely from fish.”

I searched my memory for the last time I had fish. Nothing comes to mind.

Treatment is antibiotics.

I messaged my kids to tell them what’s up. My son-in-law, the neuroscientist wrote back: You catch it from leeches. Have you been into weird medicine again?

You’re on to me now, I respond.

Needless to say, the camera is staying tucked in her case, and I am sticking close to home. It’s day 12 now, and I am on the mend, just weak.

Silver lining: I have almost reached my ideal weight. Don’t recommend the diet though.

(Image is more photo play from my archives.)

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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

35 thoughts on “Life’s a b**ch!”

  10. VJ…I didn’t want to give this a ‘like’…you know what I mean. I’m so sorry…but just as Sarah said above, your humor despite the nonsense is amazing. (Leeches?!) And I’m struck by the word ‘difficile’ in the diagnosis. I might be rusty, but isn’t that the French word for ‘difficult’? I’ve not heard it used in relationship to illness/bacteria. Oh my. Please take care…sending hugs. 💕

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    1. “difficile does mean difficult. It’s a terrible bacteria usually spread in hospitals and highly contagious. Everyone here locked me in the bedroom (with an ensuite) and took cover, lol. Glad it wasn’t that. Thanks Victoria.

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