Wow, that was a rough one. My veins are so damaged from all the surgeries, procedures, and hospital stays that I went through 6 IV's in 6 days, blew the first one while still in the ER, right as the RN gave me medication in it, just blew right up :(
By the end of the stay, the IV therapy nurses had been in my room 3 times in 2 days and were just struggling to get a line even with the ultrasound guided method.  It's so frustrating especially when you are there to get pain/nausea control, and it's interrupted by a blown IV and then waiting hours for someone else to try and get a line started, it's like trying to drive a truck through quicksand.  I was so weak and shaky after getting home from the hospital that it hurt to move.  I'm just "coasting" until my surgery on July 6th in Cleveland...Thank you again for all of your kind thoughts and prayers, they really do mean a lot to me :)

 had to come to ER (St. Alexius) this afternoon, sucks, but I'm truly blessed that we got to do our Mother's Day stuff before the pain/nausea reached a ridiculous level. I'm at St. Alexius in room 609 Bed B (window seat, thank goodness). I hope to just be here for a day or so, need to stop the flow of food/drink and get pain/nausea under control. I also have been tasting some blood in the back of my throat off and on, but the only time I've ever had that was after the EGD when I had the esophageal tear, and I haven't had an EGD since then...place that in the zebra pile? I don't know...my care in the ER was so-so, no rudeness, just bad pain/nausea management due to the heavy flow of patients that all came at once (I brought them with me I guess). It's been one of those things where the pain was an 8/10, meds started coming down, but then it came back and by the time you wait 2 hours, it's back to an 8...vicious cycle, same with nausea :