Yesterday, about 3:30pm, started to feel a little yucky. Just figured that my noodle bowl had gone rancid or something. By 4pm, I'm feeling pretty yucky, in pain and nauseated. By 430, I want to just go home & puke. Unfortunately, my car was in the shop so needed a ride to get to my car. Boss' wife gave me a ride, got my van, went home. By 5pm, had to call DH from school (he takes night classes) to come get me to take me to urgent care. Only problem is that he's clear downtown & it's a 30 minute train ride, then another 15 minute car drive home. By 520, call DH to tell him to take me to the ER as Urgent Care isn't going to be good enough. He shows up at almost 550, throws me in the car (I'd been waiting outside.. I hope bile isn't bad for roses as I ended up getting sick a couple of times walking to the car), and drives like a madman to the ER (5 miles away). Go inside.. I know it's appendicitis as I've had that before but they didn't remove my appendix the last time (it was just blocked). The pain is incredible.. I have never had this much pain in my life ever. Nearly pass out when they're asking me a ton of questions.. two nurses trying to get my vitals & get an IV in me. One nurse gave me some pain meds.. then another shot, then another. Finally start to come out of owieland and am not in as much pain. Stagger to the room designated to be mine, nearly fall on the bed (I refused to get into a wheelchair.. too hard to get back out of). Have the shakes so bad, teeth are chattering. New nurse asks if I'm nauseated, I said yes, so she gives me yet another injection plus some more pain meds (now 4 shots of pain meds.. wonder what they gave me?). Sitting up, waiting for anti-nausea to take affect, she puts a saline bag on as I'm so dehydrated (vomited over 10 times since 430, so nothing in me). It's now about 630 and she needs me to drink some contrast for the CT scan. I drink it.. it's pretty tasty actually, like Crystal Light fruit punch. Can I urinate? Sure, I'd love to, feels like I have to go NOW, but nothing comes out. She needs just a little bit... OK, do I like go in the sink or something? She & DH help totter me to the bathroom & give me the cup. Now I'm so doped up that I barely know how to breathe and they want me to pee in a cup??? I try, get only like 1-2 ounces if that. Clean up my mess, pull pants back up (wearing the open-backed hospital gown on top only), totter to door. Can't open door, too heavy. DH is right outside the door, he & the nurse help me waddle back to the room (SOOOOOOO far away.. probably 16 feet, but feels like 3 miles). Ut-oh, utohutohutoh.. rush over to the sink, grab the pink pukebucket, proceed to throw up all the contrast. Tell the nurse it tastes just as good coming up as going down, she thinks I'm insane. Gets me back to my bed, lays me down, puts 2 more injections into my IV, and I go byebye. Suddenly there's 2 more nurses hovering over me.. what's that beeping? O2 levels have crashed, normal O2 is around 94-99%, I'm in the low teens. oh. Breathe. Breathing's hard. Don't have energy to breathe. They put stupid O2 tubes in my nose.. yuck, get those out. Don't have energy to pull them out my nose. O2s go back up to 60s & 70s.. good enough for now. Sleep again. Forced to wake up, drink this contrast. So cold, how many gallons do I have to drink? 12ounce bottle. Feels like an ocean. Takes over 20 minutes to drink, pass out again. ZzZzZzZzZzzzz.. woke up, have to pee right now, not allowed. Aww, but I gotta go. No, you have to hold the contrast. How much longer? 20 minutes. Bleh. Fall back asleep, shaking. DH is freaking out, why am I shaking so much? Dunno. CT tech comes and wheels me to CT scan room.. so cold!! I'm FREEZING!! Lady takes pity & brings me a warmed blanket. Ahhh.. *purring* that feels SOOOOO good. Now gonna give you an injection and you'll feel the need to urinate. I already have to go!!.. ooh, yuck, tastes & smells nasty (you taste & smell it from the inside, not the outside) and, yup, there's the burning sensation that you gotta go. Just hold on, it'll be quick. Yea, right.. last time I had a CT scan took over an hour. Zip Zip Zip, done. What? We've been in here for less than 6 minutes! wow, can I pee now? Please? Please please please? She wheels me back to my room, nearly running over 2 other people in cross-traffic. Need traffic lights on these halls! Gets me back to my room, DH helps me totter to the bathroom. Ahhhh, finally, can go, yay! Security guard thinks it's hilarious how I totter around, "nice dance moves!" Get back to my room, fall back asleep. Poor DH, he's so hungry, hasn't eaten since lunch & it's now like 9pm. Go get some food, no, he'll wait for me to get out of the hospital. ZzZzZzZzzz.. fall back asleep while shaking again. Have 2 blankets on and so cold. About 10pmish, Dr. comes in.. I have kidney stones. Kidney stones? I'm a woman, that shouldn't be a factor. No, women get them too, and I had a stone obstruct my urethral tube .. that's why I needed to go but couldn't. Ah. Percoset, Aleve, & anti-nausea. Yay, even MORE happy drugs. You're free to go. Try to get dressed, like that's happening. Wore my pretty hot-pink bra today.. can't put it back on as don't have energy to reach.. just throw my pink sweater on & carry it out. Huh. Can I just wear it on my head like earmuffs? No. Awww.. you're no fun. Get wheeled out, DH gets the car, helps me in, and go home. yay, home. Home where the bed is. Bed is good. But cold. So cold. It's about 60 degs in the basement and the bed is frozen. As I crawl into bed, teeth start to chatter. End up with 4 blankets on. Still so cold. DH painfully cuddles up next to me, I freeze him half to death. Finally fall asleep in bed.
And now I have to pee. Again.
CT scans shows that I have a few more stones that are still in my kidneys. So I'll get to go through all this again soon with my luck. Yay.
Kidney stones are not fun.
