The What When Why and How?

I've received a lot of email about why I was in the hospital and offered prayers and expressions of love. These mean a lot to me. So here's what happened in short little summary.

Over the past six to eight weeks I've been feeling sick to my stomach and having intestinal disturbances (a polite way of putting it) every day. My primary doctor and my GI specialist ran tests and couldn't find anything. But I was still getting sick everyday. My day would be cruising along just fine and then, whamo...I'd get sick. So on the 17th of August, I pulled a muscle in my side from throwing up so hard. I called my doctor in the morning and she and my specialist told me to go to the hospital to get admitted. So I went on Tuesday the 18th and they began what would turn out to be 9 days of tests and boredom. They determined that I have Inflammatory Intestinal Disease and they have put me on eight different medications, causing me to have to take 27 pills per day. Yes, I said 27. Most medications are for things like Crohn's disease, however, I don't have an confirmed Crohn's diagnosis. But now I'm working with my doctors to treat the symptoms of this condition and hoping to get used to the medications and that they help me return to a normal life. This has been a super hard year for me and I am hoping it gets a lot better from here on in.

So that's the story, it's nothing dramatic or exciting. But I thank you for your thoughts and kind words, calls and email.