I'm Backish

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't updated recently, but I was in the hospital here in Florence. I am "home" now. M platelets went very low last Wednesday and my INR (my Coumadin level) was high. this is bad because low platelets means that I will bleed and high INR also increases bleeding. So I had to be admitted into the hospital to stop the bleeding I was having and to try to get my counts to normal. It took 6 days, and things are almost normal. My INR is still a little high but ok for me be home. I started this adventure in the ER. I spent 8 hours in a hallway with no contact with anyone because hardly anyone spoke English. I finally made it to a room. By this time I felt as though I was living in a bad dream and would wake up at any minute, I didn't. I started getting a treatment for my platelets which I get back home on Friday. However, this as a 2 days treatment which I usually only get one days worth. So, this did improve my platelets a lot but my INR was still out of control. That seems to be the reason I stayed so long. I felt pretty good for the majority of the time I spent in the hospital. I was EXTREMELY bored. My "friends" and roommates did as little, if anything, as they could for me. I felt like I was just a huge bother to them. For example the night I went in I called my friends and asked them to bring me some stuff I needed. I told them I was in the hospital and that my roommates could not bring it the next day because they had to go to Bologna. I simply asked if they could go to my apartment and pick up a bag Stacy had packed for me and bring it to me at some point the next day. They all (all 3) said no because they were going out for the night and didn't have time to pick it up. So, I felt very alone. I didn't have internet, so all I could do was listen to music and attempt to talk to my roommates who spoke Italian. That was kind of funny because we didn't understand each other but we tried. One of my roommates did speak a little English which helped. So my days were spent watching the visualizations in iTunes and critiquing them. I am very happy to be home today. However, I woke up with a massive migraine and have been extremely nauseous all day. They told me that I have some kind of flu that is going around. I plan on spending the next few days just trying to get over this flu. The school said not to worry about classes and to just feel better. I would write a more detailed account but I am really feeling lousy and this is about as good as it gets at the moment. Maybe when I feel better I will write it out better.