The flu

Kerissa • Jan 13, 2013
Thank you everyone for your love and support! I can tell you are praying cuz my fever broke last night. 🙂 The ambulance ended up taking me to OHSU yesterday cuz my heart rate was so high from my condition POTS, I was dizzy, and my fever was 103 even with Aleve. They gave me lots of fever medication and an anti-viral called Tamiflu. Oh yes, I tested positive for Influenza B. Not fun at all. The doctors and nurses said I’m one of their sicker patients.. I had 2 EKGs, 4 chest x-rays, and lots of blood work. They wanted to check my lactic acid levels, heart enzymes (since they said I was having sinus tachycardia), and inflammation in my body. My oxygen sats keep dropping even tho they are giving me oxygen through a tube. My sats dropped to 77 one time (it should stay at 100) and the alarm went off…that was a little scary. I’m currently in the observation unit in the ER. Everytime I stay here, The Bourne Identity is always on TV…now whenever I watch it, it brings back bad memories. 😉 Waiting for the doctors right now… If they want me to still stay at the hospital, then I’ll be admitted to a “real” room. I’ll keep ya updated!
By Kerissa Lee 23 Jan, 2024
Hi, friends, I had a whole other post ready to go with some good news, but instead, I have an urgent prayer request. I started experiencing sudden onset numbness, tingling, and weakness in my whole left leg, and it’s been so scary. 🥺 It just came on out of the blue. I was doing so well with physical therapy each week (able to walk fast on the treadmill and leg press 40 lbs), and now, I have to limp because my left leg is soo weak. I really want to avoid the ED as much as possible, so I saw one of my doctors today. She’s concerned I’m having a big motor nerve issue. 😭 The plan is to see a physical medicine specialist, have a nerve conduction study, get an urgent MRI done, as well as see my PCP and pain doctor on the 25th and 29th for further evaluation/testing. I know I already said this, but it really has been so scary to lose function so quickly. Can you pray that I will trust the Lord and not worry? It’s been very hard, so I’d really appreciate your prayers and support in the coming weeks. Thank you so much. ❤️
By Kerissa Lee 01 Jan, 2024
"Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth." Hosea 6:3
By Kerissa Lee 11 Dec, 2023
"This hard place in which you, perhaps, find yourself, is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him."  Elisabeth Elliot
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