[Vhfcn-l] I am not dead yet.

[Don Armstrong]

I was scheduled for a knee replacement in early December but came down 
with the plague. After 5 days I lost my voice and the stuff coming out 
of my nose was half blood clots.  I went straight to urgent care at the 
VA and got 10 days of Augmentine which kills every bacteria in your 
body. This gave me bad diarrhea and that triggered gout. Anyways another 
10 days of wondering what life had for me. Jan 2 and right knee 
replacement and now I'm still battered and bruised but working on my 
physical therapy. Whenever I'm asked how bad the pain level is I respond 
with I'm old and parts are rusty so define the difference between old 
squeaky pain and pain from the operation".

On 1/6/2019 8:53 PM, John Grow via Vhfcn-l wrote:
> Reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated..
>
> Saturday 12/29 I felt a little punky when I went to bed.  The next morning I could not get up by myself and had a fever of 102.  Gretchen called 911 and the EMTs came right away and thought that I might have pneumonia and took me to the ER.  They ran some tests and admitted me.
> Found out that I had a blood infection and started to load me up with every antibiotic known to man.  They took buckets of blood and ran every test you can imagine, including nuclear tests.  They finally isolated the infection and let me come home yesterday afternoon.  I have a Picc Line and need to give myself an IV every day for probably four more weeks.  Actually Gretchen is doing the work.
> It is going to take me awhile to get my strength back but it will come.
> Thanks to all of you that called and sent e-mails inquiring as to my health.  Getting old is not for sissies, that is for sure.
>
> John
>
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Don Armstrong cavman at dtroop35cav.org
604th Trans / 52nd CAB, Pleiku, Apr / July 68
D Troop 3/5 Cav, Bearcat /Dong Tam , July 68 May 69
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