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The hospital twins

One of the events going on this week that I can blog about (because I know neither of them will mind) are two of my friends that have landed in the hospital this week. I’ve dubbed them “the hospital twins” because they went in on the same day and called me within minutes of one another to give me the news and ask me to pass along the info to the other one. He he he he…..

It was a bit jarring when they first went in because there are a few other very sick HPS’ers right now. How many people can we have in the hospital at one time? How many people can get bad news from their doctors all in the same week?

When Sheena called to tell me she was MIA because she was in “the joint” (the hospital) I thought to myself, oh man, not another one. And when Karen called 10 minutes later I said out loud, you’ve got to be kidding me!

The great news is the hospital twins are doing just fine. Neither of them turned out to have too much ultra serious going on – not that they didn’t need to be hospitalized – but you can think of it as sort of putting the car in the shop for a tune up as opposed to a complete overhaul.

Sheena was ultra dehydrated, which is a common problem for those of us in the ostomy club. I get dehydrated very easily and you sort of have to learn to drink all the time.

Karen is having belly pain. We still don’t know why, but her vitals are good. They test for all the worst stuff first, and those tests have all come back good, so likely she was just laid low by a bug. When you’re taking meds that suppress your immune system, it can happen.

Hopefully they’ll both make a break for it sometime this weekend. As Karen put it yesterday, “I sure would like to eat something that requires teeth.”

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