I swear my body hates me.  Barely even winter and I've already been in the hospital twice.  The same darn thing.  Pneumonia.  AGAIN! *Sigh*

This is Minnie Pearl Owens.  I'm sitting up in a chair in my hospital room waiting for the doctor to come see me.  Hopefully he will let me go home today or at least by tomorrow; I'm so sick of needles, doctors, and stuff I could just spit nails!! 

At least the food is good .... as an example, today I had skinless white meat (chicken), broccoli, steamed baby carrots, a baked potato (with no butter on it), and for dessert, a fruit cup.  And for drinkin', a Diet Sprite.  It was very good; I'm still full! LOL

That, at least, I can be thankful for!

And I no longer have to worry about Christmas.  It wasn't bad, but it could have been better.  I could have been home, for one thing!  The nicest thing that happened was when some carolers came in to sing Christmas songs; they sang so pretty it caused tears to come to my eyes.  I didn't want them to leave.  I did make them laugh, though: I told them, "Y'all better not sing 'I'll Be Home For Christmas' 'cause I WASN'T."  LOL

And my nurses, they brought me cards and some little gifts: candy canes, soap, even a little cash, which I did not expect.  I have had the best nurses in the world!

Come on, doctor: where in the hell ARE you???  I wanna blow this popsicle stand and return to my home, sweet home!!!!

I do feel tons better, but I'm still coughing my fool head off.  My chest hurts from coughing so much; feels like I'm 'bout to turn myself inside out and backwards!  And it leaves me gasping for breath; good thing I have this oxygen on to help me!

The IV has been taken out (thank GOD!), but I face one more blood gas, to make sure I'm doing better.  THAT I am NOT looking forward to.  My poor skinny wrists are nothing but bruises and they look terrible, y'all!  UGH!  Hopefully that will be the last one of those for a while! 

Well, goodie.  It's about time.  Doctor decided to show his happy ass; hopefully I can get OUT of here!!  I don't want to spend the New Year here; that would mean I'd be in the hospital all year long!!!!

~To be continued!~