Where are you? I will hunt you down and get you and bring you to your knees with a giant feather.

That movie was awesome. Very well done. Freakish. My mum and I were clinging to the sofa.

It really got to us. Why? Timing mostly. It was set in April 2002 as the start of the Smallpox. Caramon had his last chemo treatment in February. He then had to have a lobectomy to remove part of his lung. That did not go well. He spent just over 3 weeks recovering in the hospital because his lung kept collapsing. At one point he had FOUR tubes coming out of his chest sucking this gunk you do NOT even want to contemplate out of his chest and keeping his lung inflated.

In June he was to get his IV line removed when he came down with a mysterious infection. We were slapped into the hospital on July 3rd due to mysterious infection which they could not identify. In the Isolation Ward. The Infections Disease people were all over us like a bad suit. We couldn’t leave the room, which had it’s own air circulation, without masking.

Finally? It was determined to be some super rare fungus. So rare, Caramon was only the second case at that hospital. Turns out it is more “common” in TX. Only thing we could fathom was perhaps one of the mexicans brought it from that area when they came to work. At the time a lot of construction was going on in our neighbourhood and the builder had brought in a lot of Mexicans. For the most part they seemed like great guys, don’t get me wrong. It’s just the only way we could figure out something from the TX area had come to Columbus. We didn’t know anyone from TX or who had been to TX to bring it back. We will never really know for sure…

This led to me never sleeping for another 8 weeks. 8 weeks of Antibiotics. Fancy ones that I had to make myself daily. Had to be infused via IV. Two different ones on different rotations and long infusions. At one point? I stuck a needle completely through a finger.

Why all of this? Because this is the time frame that the smallpox movie was set. If that had been real? Caramon would have been completely unable to be vaccinated. He was immuno compromized. When that mother lost her son? We were barely able to contain ourselves.

Liss, great movie hun. ((HUGS)) Doesn’t mean I don’t want to tickle ya! *GRINS*