I had to drop out of Chem because of hospital stay

[luvmy3kids]

Hi everyone. Ugg, it's been quite a rough few weeks. I got strep throat a few weeks ago and ended up getting really sick. I have IgA nephropathy and whenever I get strep (or some sort of viral/bacterial infection) I get blood in my urine. I mean a lot of blood... Anyway, over the weekend it got worse and I was naseous and vomiting, plus I had a horrible headache too. I took some motrin for the headache (which you are not suppose to do with IgA), and with the dehydration from the vomiting, I ended up in the hospital. My creatinine was 7.5 (normal is .5-1.0). I was so sick and it was the first few weeks of school, I had to drop my class. There was just no way I would have caught up with everything.

I feel terrible that I dropped it. I can take it this fall, and it won't set me back or anything, but I just wanted to get this last class out of the way so I could have next year off to spend with my kids. Now I'm going to have to take it with a crummy teacher too because the one I liked doesn't teach on the day I need to take it on.

If you have read all of this, thanks for reading. I just needed to vent, I've never dropped a class before and this whole illness has really gotten me down.

Hope everyone is doing well so far this semester... I haven't been around lately, but hopefully I'll feel better now where I can stop by more often.

take care,

Jennifer