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We uh, just got back home from 111 hours in the hospital.
Apparently we picked up a nasty virus, and needed heavy-duty healing time.
We actually started getting drastically ill last Monday, but we assumed it would pass in time and so it took a 103° fever and incapacitating pain/nausea/shakes on Thursday to get us into the ER. 
Nevertheless, the hospital downtime helped a lot. We needed the peace and quiet and recovering lack of business desperately, sick or not, and being able to basically binge-watch EWTN and kids cartoons helped our mental & spiritual state as well.
I promised I’d make a special but clear spiritual shout-out to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, though; we prayed to her specifically a lot, notably to be healed by Tuesday night– and miraculously, it happened. So we’re profoundly grateful and want to make sure that is expressed without any reticence.

We learned a lot over the past 5 days, and I’ll write thoroughly about it later, but as of right now we need to eat and bathe and lie down because the body is still tired and woozy and not at all ready/able to jump into any sort of schedule anytime soon.

So we’re back– both here and at home. I know we we were just starting to return from Lent recently, but even so, it’s nice to be at these keys again.

I hope you’re all feeling well, and if not, our prayers and love and support go out to you.


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pojoisnowit replied to your post

Did they find out what went wrong?

Not entirely? It seemed to have been a virus of sorts (I was sick a full week), but they still want to do more tests so I’ll be going in for some short-stay stuff over the next month or so.
I’m still sick in a different way; I haven’t been able to recover (physically or mentally) from both the illness and the shock of leaving the hospital interim. It feels like part of my psyche was left there and I haven’t been able to get a grip on life, reality, or self since last Tuesday. (plus, it didn’t help that an hour after I was discharged my grandmother was admitted for a similarly big infection, and that whole process was frankly traumatic. So I’ve been a massive psychological wreck since then.)
Nevertheless, the short answer is, partly. They treated the presenting symptoms of the time (lots of antibiotics and some other meds), but they still aren’t sure why I have so many persisting problems outside of that big case.