Day +5 - Holy Crap this SUCKS

Well, the preliminary blood tests came back and were of course negative for everything (They always are) and the stool cultures came back negative for C-diff, which means that I'm off isolation (I forgot to mention that they assume you are positive for C-diff until you prove them wrong). Other than that I'm in survival mode, eating 5% of my meals drinking as much water as I can tolerate and trying to walk around, which is beginning to be increasingly a chore. After about 300 yards I need to take a 10 minute break before I can do the 300 yard trek back to my room. The fevers are intermittent and last for only an hour or so. My bowels are still a disaster and I spend about 25% of my waking hours in the bathroom. The doctors say that I’m doing exactly as expected and that by this weekend I should be feeling better. He said that I should not be disheartened by this hard time. I told him I was a Soldier and could take a lot more and have been thru worse things than this.