Unexpected Journey - The Doctor

I looked with chagrin at my specialist as I listened to him. This was not what I was hoping to hear at all. I was trying to process what he was saying to me and put that into the context of the next month or so. I was hoping for answers that were more along the line of ... stop malingering and get back to work. Instead this is some of what he said to me.

• My lungs are healing
• My lungs are not healed enough to do some of the testing he wants to do
• I need to begin vitamin D to help with lung health
• I need a different maintenance medication for the long term
• I need allergy testing since mine is over 30 years old
• I need to change the delivery method of my inhaler
• There is no guarantee that I will recover back to my "norm"
• I can slowly begin to add activity back into my schedule
• I need to carefully monitor my lung function every day
• I need a tiered treatment plan that is based on my daily lung function tests
• The hoarseness should go away as my lungs heal
• Rest, recover and heal

So it looks like I have some hard work ahead. The kind of hard work that I find much more difficult than physical labor. I have always been more of an advocate of the "walk it off" school of treatment. All of this is ... well ... complicated.


But I am striving hard for a good attitude and the willingness to do whatever needs to happen. because I guess the reality is that I do not have much choice. This is my reality and I need to embrace it, learn from it and keep moving ahead.


And I guess as long as I keep moving ahead .... it is all good.


Just Connie