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AAAAAHHHHHH I'M STILL REALLY EXCITED

Okay, sorry, you probably don't want to hear me blabber on about more of the same.

Anyways. I just realized that the two dots on my wrist from my IV... uh... I keep wanting to say poke, but I don't know what they call it when they insert the needle into your arm/hand and it leaves a little scab. Hm. Let's just call it a poke.

Anyways, I realized that the two pokes look a little bit like a vampire bite. Which is creepy, because I was reading a book that had a vampire in it. It's because on the first day at the Children's Hospital (with the super-pro nurse), I started bleeding backwards into the tube (like they told me to keep the IV in so they wouldn't have to stab me again the next day) so I had my dad pull it out because the nurse told me to pull out the IV if I started bleeding. (I later found out that she meant bleeding out of the tube, like all over my hand, not into the tube.) So then, the next day, this other nurse put another IV into my hand, but this time it was just a little bit further down my arm. So they were right next to each other and they looked like a vampire bite. (Except it was on my wrist...) Or a bat bite, because bats have fangs too. (I think?)

On something that's pretty much totally unrelated, they gave me the IV for antibiotics. The nurse used some sort of freezing spray (that numbs the area they're going to put the IV in) on me the second time they put the IV in, so I didn't feel it that much. I also didn't bleed at all into the tube so I kept the IV in. The next day, though, (I was supposed to have 3 doses) the nurse was trying to flush it with salt water (because that's what your body actually has, which is why when you're dehydrated they give you salt water, not just water water) but I think my blood went up and clotted the tube a bit, maybe because of the freezing spray thing (I'm actually not sure why that'd affect it, but the nurse asked me if I got the freezing stuff so I said yes). Then they pulled it out. :'( And it actually hurt a lot more than when my dad pulled it out, maybe because they were trying do it more quickly, and also maybe because there was a doctor talking to me while I was trying not to scream/panic when the nurse pulled out the tube. So I was probably thinking about the tube more while also being distracted, which did not help matters. But she got it out and it turned out that the doctor would switch me to oral antibiotics so I didn't need another IV! And the thing is, the oral antibiotics (pills) worked a lot better! The first antibiotics I got were amoxicillin, and that didn't work very well, I still had fever and everything, and apparently the pneumonia got worse. After they switched me to IV's, though, it didn't work very well either because I still had a fever. But something in the last two antibiotics must have worked, because I got better on, like, the 2nd or 3rd day! The fever just magically disappeared. Yay and thanks to the last doctor! And to all the doctors. (I think she was a Nurse Practitioner, which apparently is a nurse who's allowed to basically do everything a doctor does, except she's not called a doctor and specializes in children. Which makes sense, because she was working at the Children's Hospital. :) )

And now I'm all better! I've got my energy back, but I still have a bit of a sore throat. Maybe that's from debating and yelling in excitement yesterday, but psh.... That's okay... :P

Now I have... uh... oh yeah. 3 tests next week, pile of catchup homework.... but not too much homework other from studying. :) I GOT THIS. I'm so glad for this long weekend, because I didn't have Saturday and now I can actually make sure I do all my catchup stuff and studying. :)