blog http://bewell.yolasite.com/blog/blog.php Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:25:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://bewell.yolasite.com/blog/blog/hospital-visit <LI>Recently I had gotten&nbsp; sick and had a hospital stay. I went to the emergency room complaining of shortness of breath and tightness in the chest and weakness they admitted me right away and I &nbsp;stayed for 3 days. During my stay I was so&nbsp;exhausted and sleeping alot, they were waking me up every 4 hours to draw blood and to run test after test. They did x rays, hooked me up to an EKG, even did a cath to look for clogged arteries and blockages and found nothing. Next they did an ultrasound on my heart and an MRI all came back fine.&nbsp; On the third day the Dr came in to talk with me and said they could not find anything wrong with me and that <B><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">the hospital was for people dying&nbsp; </SPAN>What? </B>I&nbsp; always thought the hospital was for people that are sick immediatley I instructed the Dr to discharge me after spending three days and thousands of dollars they could not find a diagnoses. I knew now that I was going to have to do some extensive research and diagnose myself, I knew I had a history of allergies and asthma so I started there. I was shocked to find out with asthma you can go into a catastrophic state where there is no wheezing or coughing and you become weak and could die. Now something is starting to make sense, I made an appointment with an allergy asthma specialist and I began to tell the Dr my symptoms. After alot of questions on medical history and past diagnoses the Dr confirmed I was in a catastrophic state of Asthma. Amazing I was able to diagnose myself and now I am on the road to recovery. I am angry because this could have been fatal for me, according to beating-asthma.com Approximately 180,000 people die every year through asthma related illness. It's estimated that about 1 in every 250 deaths worldwide are related to asthma.</LI> Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:31:13 +0100