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As I lay here in the hospital bed as a patient with bilateral eosinophilic pneumona taking in gobs of medication round the clock to get well I realize what a great opportunity God befell upon me. Here I am ready to start medical school to become the best physician I can be, and  I was treated by a group of awesome physicians (an nurses). How blessed am I? I could’ve taken this entire situation horribly badly – you see it started at the UCF Health Center with Dr. Karcsh and the next thing I know the x-ray he ordered looked scary. My right lung looked very weird, almost as though it had a huge fatty lipoma in the middle of it that was clogging it up – the whole right lung looked trashed with white pathces – I didn’t see any visible breathing room there, the left lung showed that whatever was in the right lung – certainly wasn’t happy staying on it’s side and was traveling over to the left side – ut oh, not a good thing!  The good part is the top left lobe has capacity for me to breathe. So there you have it, I’ve been functioning on very little lung capacity for probably a long time, who knows how long. I’m amazed I made it through my MCAT’s and who knows, perhaps my illness cost me a lot of the points – I had noticed for some (outside not usual / unexplainable) reason that it seemed as though my head was clogged. Well it’s in the past and there’s not a lot I can do about it now – so I press onward to where ever this journey takes me – I know I get my BS degree May 8th.  I’m VERY proud of that accomplishment. Not sure if I mentioned it (by the way) I recently was inducted to the Golden Key Honor Society, making that 5th honor society - So, I’m pretty proud of all of my accomplishments to date.  Anyway back to the pneumonia..

Later on today I get out of the hospital – sent home on a week of “no school and no work” per doctor’s orders – rest & medication. It will be nice to be home again – I’ve been here a week – so I miss home -we always miss home, I’m no exception. 

Here’s to a speedy recovery! One thing I know for sure – God just wanted to remind me what it’s like to be a patient before he allowed me to become a physician