Actually it's already day 31 but I haven't been to bed yet so I'm doing my 30th blog post. Wow - what seemed like a distant fist goalpost was attained way quicker than I thought it would be. I guess when I wake up on Day 31 I will be in NML.
Why, you might ask, is Donna writing her blog at 1:30 in the morning. I'll tell you. I went to work today as usual, but was really having trouble catching my breath. My boss even asked if I was all right. At 11:30 I called my doctor and asked if I could come in. She said go to the ER. I said how about this evening, I've got lots of work to do. She said no, now. So I did. Spent most of the day there, they gave me several treatments and put me on steroids and said it was an exacerbation of my COPD.
Damn.
Of course they gave me lots of kudos for quitting smoking, and the triage nurse took great pleasure in going into the hospital records system and changing me from a smoker to a non-smoker!! I liked it too!
Then I went back to the office at around 4:30 and worked until 10:30 and came home and watched the last episode of Parenthood (my favorite show) and then ate dinner, and I'm very wired, so I continued working on my taxes. I happened to glance at the clock and realized I had missed my blog for the first time!!
So, my friends, thank you so much for being here for me, and for taking this very intimidating but rewarding journey with me. We never sugar coat anything. It's hard to quit smoking but it's NOT too hard; it's doable. And it's so much harder living with the effects of smoking. I lived that once again in the ER today. Peace and love to you all.
Tomorrow will be the first installment from NML. I had pledged to myself that I would blog every day for the first 30 days and I have. I don't know whether it will be every single day in NML (who knows, it might be) but I look forward to sharing that leg of the journey with my friends here at EX.
