Five Months in Hospital

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Missouri - Terry (AKA Ohio - Terry, NY - Terry)

Just got out of the hospital for the past 5 months.

Caught Pneumonia and along with the Methotrexate and

R/A attacking my lungs they glassed putting me into a 6 week comma.

While in the comma I was pronounced brain dead twice

but my daughter wound't let them pull the plug.

While in the comma the staff decided to use me to

train on how to do trec's. I ended up with my vocal cords

permanently damaded and unable to eat solid foods for 5 months.

All my meds for R/A, Fibro, oa, osteoperosis were stopped while

I was in the hospital. Needless to say Methrotrexate is no

longer used on me because of the pulmemary fibrosis.

After I came out of the coma, I transfered to another hospital

when I found out what was going on.

I was put in ICU because of all the drugs they had me on.

While transfering me out I had a massive heart attack

for all of the drug OD's in the first hospital and it took

45 min of CPR to save my life.

The predisone I was taking made be a diabetic and I had to come off it

I was in the hospital for 6 weeks after that and the day

I was to get out my heart stopped and the fibrosis and methotrexate

kicked in again.

I just got out of the hospital. I have been walking 25 feet this

week and the damage to my neck has inproved so I can eat a little.

I still have a tube in my tummy just in case.

I am on lots of heart and lung drugs now but the only

R/A drugs they will let me have are Enbrel and celebrex.

Glad to read your comments again. They have been

very helpful the past 3 years I've been here.

Missouri - Terry