re: Sickest You've Ever Been?

About 5 years ago, took a 7 days RCCL cruise out of New Orleans. Stops were Key West, Grand Cayman, Cozumel. First night I came down with Novo Virus and did not get out of the bed until we arrived back into the Port of New Orleans. If I would have had a gun, I would have shot myself. I would have jumped off the cabin balcony, but could not drag myself that far.

Gastritis when i was in my early 20's. Had me laid up over a week with horrible fevers. Couldn't keep anything down. Not even water.

Also had pneumonia. It was pretty horrible but recovered a lot faster then I did with gastritis.

For a short term illness, the worst was a kidney stone I had 2 weeks ago. Never had one before and it was the worst 4 hours of pain laying in the ER ever. I was so scared it was going to be even worse when I passed the stone but I didn't even feel it come out.

I had mono before my senior year of high school. I never threw up but that shite sucked.

It was during the World Cup, so for 2 weeks, all I did was sleep and watch soccer

Walking around with complete CHF for about 4 months till it got to the point I was passing out from the chest/heart pain. shite almost killed me that day at work. Got home and the wife rushed me to the ER. I was so bad off, my body was shutting down and I didn't know it or the signs of CHF. Doctors didn't know what was going on other then my blood count was screwed up big time. I had so much fluid in my body that I had went from 185 to 220lbs in that time. Spent 3 months in the hospital till they were able to stabilize me somewhat.

That was 3 1/2 years ago and every day is a battle for the next.

I have been sleeping in a chair for almost a week now, I tried sleeping in bed last night and I couldn't breathe. I had no idea your lungs could hold the amount of crap that has come up this morning. That's ok every time I cough some of it up the next breath is just a little easier. I probably don't know just how close this shite has come to killing me, the rocephen shot yesterday was a lifesaver. Without that I probably didn't have a couple of more days.