Archive for August, 2009

August 10, 2009 – My Hospital Stay

The last week has been the week from hell. Last time I wrote I was waiting to get on a plane in D.C. Now I am lying in a hospital bed back in my hometown.  As soon as I landed my aunt picked me up from the airport and took me straight to the ER. [...]

August 4, 2009 – Trip to the finest ER in D.C.

This week I have been on a road trip with my parents to Pennsylvania and the Mid Atlantic region.  They were going to go for a 5 day back packing trip while I met up with a friend from college to head to New York.   Yesterday we arrived in Washington D.C. and dropped my friend [...]

August 2, 2009 – Dramamine

One of the key symptoms of my illness is that I am nauseated all of the time.  When the nausea first started I tried simple over the counter antiemetics such as Tums and Dramamine. Tums seemed to help a little at first, but quickly became ineffective. So I switched to the bigger guns, Dramamine.  Dramamine [...]