I know...but there were reasons. 1) I haven't had a real break all year 2) I need to see a doctor 3) I just couldn't face my 4th or 6th periods. I should have taken a full day off (Wednesdays are only half days) but I like my other classes...so it was worth it to skip the block period of my two difficult classes...I know, I'm a coward.
I have had trouble breathing for probably about 2 years now. The last couple months it has gotten worse. Tuesday at school by 6th period I was gasping for air and feeling lightheaded. I had been thinking about skipping a day this week for a few weeks now and after feeling so tired and crappy from not having enough oxygen, and after having an awful class period--full of frustration and despair--I said, forget it, I am not going to school tomorrow. I put together a sub plan and left. On my way home, I actually called the doctor. I hate doctors. I didn't even go to the doctor this winter when I should have until it was so bad I had to be taken to the emergency room. But, my doctor had no opening, which made me mad...because it's not like this is something that can wait for 2 weeks...I couldn't breathe!
So anyway, today I didn't go to work and instead I went to a new doctor who had an opening. Turns out my asthma is probably what it is. It's back. Well, at least that's what the doctor suspected and yet, with my new inhaler, nothing is really changed. It works for like, half an hour and then it's bad again. I might have to get a second inhaler (a prevention one in addition to the fast acting one I already have). Anyway, that's something to pray about because I'm still pretty much gasping for breath and it is making me exhausted and my chest hurts. Here's the cool and sortof scary thing. I got an X-ray today. My doctor told me that my lungs are inflated, one of the things that happens with asthma. He said you can tell from my x-ray because my ribs are pushed to the side (hence the pain) and my heart is below my lungs! It's so weird because a week or two ago when I didn't feel well I was holding my stomach and I could have sworn my heart was beating right in the middle of rib cage. You know that soft spot right between your ribs, where they start to split? Well, that's where my heart was beating and I was so weirded out. I put my hand where I thought my heart was supposed to be and it was very faint but when I moved my hand back below my ribs I could feel it strongly. I thought it was odd but then ignored it. Turns out, I was right! That's where my heart is! I guess normally it is somewhat turned to the side, near the top left of my chest but my asthmatically enlarged lungs have pushed my heart down below! Weird!
Cute story: 3rd period yesterday walks in, my first class of the day, and something was strange right off the bat. They were quieter and finally I realized, they were all wearing HUGE sunglasses. I gazed at them all with a slight smile on my face, waiting for one of them to betray the reason they were all wearing those sunglasses. They all just smiled at me. Finally, I grinned and gave in. "Ok, what's with the sunglasses?" Apparently Tuesdays are now "Stunna-shade" Tuesdays. The term is foreign to me. Yumi wore big sunglasses one day. In class discussion, when she spoke I was amused that she was wearing huge, dark sunglasses inside my classroom. In my distraction I said, "I like the shades," before responding to her comment. My class apparently thought it was funny and wanted to see the reaction I would give if they all came in them. So, now we have "2nd Amendment Monday" (although not sanctioned, the students claim this day anyway...), "Stunna-shade" Tuesday, Sweater Thursday, and First Amendment Friday. Anyway, nothing really all that amazing, but I did learn a new term that day and we all had a good laugh (they looked so silly!).
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- Ginny
- Renton, WA, United States
- I am a thinker and a learner. I love God deeply though I am still learning to get my strength from Him. I am a teacher and as I learn to love my students more they show me both respect and ways that I am weak. This year is a year where I am learning the meaning of "where I am weak, He is strong."
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