Sick

Apr 03, 2009

So the past week has sucked. It started off with a upper respiratory infection. Dr prescribed some antibiotics and I was just waiting it out. Well then I started having a really bad pain on my left side, about seven inches from my belly button and an inch under my rib cage. Every time I ate it got worse, like someone was stabbing me. It was killing me and I started getting really nauseated so I called my surgeon. He told me to go to my closest er because it could be some sort of blockage or ulcer. So I ended up going in, and after a 5 hour wait they FINALLY brought me back to see the doctor. Well right away he took me for an x-ray and then had me start to drink stuff for a CT scan of my abdomin. Of course being nauseated and feeling like someone was stabbing me to death every time I took a drink made that stuff extremely difficult to drink. So finally the nurse comes in to draw blood and give me some drugs. I dont typically like taking medications that impair me, but i welcomed those with um,open arms. Lol. So the lady from CT kept trying to push me to drink two of these huge bottles of dye, and it just wasnt working for me. I was gagging, full and in pain and there was no way. So my nurse comes in and was like, um, no, she does NOT have to drink all of that. So they lady took me back and lowand behold the amount I drunk was just fine. They injected my iv with die also and that made me evensicker. The second it hit me I started to throw up. It was horrible. So finally they take me back to the room and I got to sleep a little bit and then the doctor came in to tell me what was going on. He said good news was that I dont have a blockage, but the BAD news is I have quite a few other things going on. His biggest concern at the moment was the huge cyst on my ovary. He said he had never seenone that big before. He said it is over 10 inches, and its pushing all of my insides up into my chest cavity. He said I will have to see a gynecological specialist tohave it surgically removed, if it pops on its own it will be the worst pain ive ever felt. He said in ADDITION to that, I also have a hernia up by my surgical site. This also will have to be surgically repaired. He also believes I have 2 ulcers in my upper intestinal tract which have been causing me pain. So I have to go to my surgeon for all of that.  All of that paired with this horrible cold and I have been miserable. I am extremely weak today, I actually slept untill noon, and its only 2:30 and I feel like going back to bed. Ugggh.

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