The last several weeks proved to be quite eventful for me. On May 11th, I'm proud to say I turned 30! The next week, Lyv and I flew down to Texas to visit my sister and her new little boy, Preston. Here is my favorite photo I took of him while I was down there.
While I was down there I started getting sick with fever and joint pain and it turned out that an immunosuppressive drug I was on for lupus had become toxic to my body and dropped my white cell count to a dangerously low level of 0.6. Upon arriving back in Denver, I was instructed by my doctor to go to the ER to be admitted to the hospital. I spent four days there in reverse isolation and had every test imaginable run on me. There was a real danger that I could have an infection in my body and with no white cells to fight them, that kind of situation can be deadly. I really dodged a bullet, because they could find no infection anywhere! (I like to think it was due to my obsessive hand washing I took on while I was around my newborn nephew). After I was released, I ended up going back to the ER two more times over the next 3 days. Now my doctors think I'm in a lupus flare and so they're trying to get that under control. All in all, I had fever every night for 12 days straight, I had 5 IV's put in my arms, I had countless blood draws and the bruised arms to prove it, and I lost 10 lbs. I'm now on high doses of steroids which have me feeling pretty good, but I have to remind myself that my body is still recovering from all the shock it endured. Thank you to everyone for your well wishes during this past week!
While I was down there I started getting sick with fever and joint pain and it turned out that an immunosuppressive drug I was on for lupus had become toxic to my body and dropped my white cell count to a dangerously low level of 0.6. Upon arriving back in Denver, I was instructed by my doctor to go to the ER to be admitted to the hospital. I spent four days there in reverse isolation and had every test imaginable run on me. There was a real danger that I could have an infection in my body and with no white cells to fight them, that kind of situation can be deadly. I really dodged a bullet, because they could find no infection anywhere! (I like to think it was due to my obsessive hand washing I took on while I was around my newborn nephew). After I was released, I ended up going back to the ER two more times over the next 3 days. Now my doctors think I'm in a lupus flare and so they're trying to get that under control. All in all, I had fever every night for 12 days straight, I had 5 IV's put in my arms, I had countless blood draws and the bruised arms to prove it, and I lost 10 lbs. I'm now on high doses of steroids which have me feeling pretty good, but I have to remind myself that my body is still recovering from all the shock it endured. Thank you to everyone for your well wishes during this past week! 
lookout mommy! lyv has a very mischievous look in her eye!
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