One long night

 - by Brittany

So Wednesday afternoon I wasn’t feeling well and figured it was the Carl’s Jr. I had for lunch. I don’t really eat hamburgers from fast food places, because most are nasty. (I’m not against fast food, just nasty fast food.) So I dealt with the stomach ache all night, and tried to sleep it off. I finally fell asleep about 3 in the morning only to wake up with Jameson at 6:30. I felt ok in the morning so thought nothing of it. I got the kids ready and went for Jmo’s picture appointment at noon. (Yes, I’m finally getting pictures of him at almost 7 months.) Well the guy was a half hour late for our appointment, because of the family before me. All I kept hearing was, can we take some more shots of me with him, or those two… Not cool when you have two babies waiting. Well both kids did fine while we waited, I was just worried about when the guy would finally be ready for us and then I’d have two hungry kids. There’s a reason I plan for certain times! Well we did our photo shoot, Jameson did great, and Ramona played with the stroller almost the whole time. Not bad! So we leave, and I find a place to feed the kids lunch while we wait to preview the pictures. A half hour later we go back and as I’m looking at pictures, I start to feel sick. Great. I have two tired kids and I feel like crap. We get things done and head home, I figure it’s cause I haven’t eaten since breakfast and it’s now 2:00. I put the kids down for a nap and try to eat lunch. No go. Couldn’t eat, just felt even more sick. So my thoughts are:

Oh man, am I pregnant?!

No, if that was the case breathing wouldn’t be a problem, which I couldn’t breath.

So after throwing up and still not feeling well, and not being able to catch my breath, I call Kevin. He came home from work, luckily his brother happened to be here to stay with the kids until Ramona’s mom could come and our neighbor came to get Jameson. Kevin rushes me to the the Urgent care. After waiting for about 10 minutes (we’re the only one’s there, why are we waiting?) they take me back and check me out. First the doctor presumes I’m having an anxiety attack. After explaining and her actually examining me she figures out it’s not that. Smart doctor! Then she asks Kevin why he didn’t take me to the ER? What?! Aren’t you URGENT care. Aren’t they suppose to be an add on to an ER, not to mention they are 5 minutes away and it’s rush hour traffic to try to get to the ER? So she gives me a shot of Toroidal for the pain and send us to the ER saying she’s called ahead and a doctor is waiting.

We get to the ER and they try to make us fill out the same paperwork urgent care sent with us. So Kevin explains while I sit down. Thankfully, the shot started to kick in. Some things I learned while waiting in the ER…

1. If it’s urgent, don’t go to Urgent Care!

2. Unless you came in an ambulance, your the last concern.

3. If you are a minority or on Medicaid, you’ll be helped first.

4. I think the ER is just as bad as a state fair… it attracts some trashy people.

5. The ER is not for emergencies. You’ll die before you get helped.

6. I asked the doctors how to get help faster next time… the answer… mention chest pains, can’t breath, or vaginal bleeding. (I couldn’t breathe but said abdominal pain not chest… dang-it! so close.)

7. There’s always the person that is asking everyone what’s wrong, and talks loud enough for all to hear.

8. There’s always at least one person when they come in they are on SOMETHING and yelling four letter words at everyone.

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I learned all these thing while waiting for over 5 hours! Yah right a doctor is waiting! Finally got called back, and got things started. The nurse, Amanda, was super nice. The doctor’s assistant (not sure what she’s called) then came in and checked me out. Went over what the possibilities were and their treatments. Then we got to wait some more. Finally Amanda came back in, took some blood samples and gave me something for the pain and something for the nausea. Then another doctor took me to have an ultra sound. On the way, whatever she gave me kicked in. Nice.

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It was kinda fun being wheeled down the hall. I’ve never really had to go to the hospital or even doctor other than for delivery. The last time I remember going to the doctor because I was sick, I went to the pediatrician. So we started the ultra sound which was really cool. Kevin liked that part because the doctor took time to tell him what everything was and how they measure it, and the instruments. He pointed out some gallstones, which could be the culprit. After waiting some more, I was wheeled to another room because they needed the room I was in. The new room had 2 other people in it and I’m pretty sure I was put in the storage part of the room. There was a wall length vending machine full of medical supplies, which Kev took the liberty to investigate. 🙂 We had to listen the the girl on the other side of the curtain complain to the nurse then call her mom when the nurse left and complain some more. Finally, Ricco, my new nurse came in with some updates. The doctor came and said the pain was probably cause by the gallstones , and all other test were negative for anything including the pregnancy test (thank goodness! Not ready for that again.) Finally, at about 2:30 a.m. we left the hospital and headed home. Thanks to Paul who came over and watched Jameson for the night. Sariah had come till Paul could get there because Jeremy had to leave, so we knew Jameson was in good hands. Sariah was great and got Jameson ready for bed so all Paul had to do was feed him and put him down. We finally went to bed about 3 only to have Jmo wake up at 6:30. Luckily he went back down for his nap at 8:30 and I went back to bed. Then Kev got up with him and worked from home so I could sleep a little longer. I’m a little sore today, but haven’t had any pain. They gave me a prescription, just in case. Hopefully, I won’t need it. They said the gallstones aren’t blocking anything and if they become a problem then call the referral to have them surgically removed. Great! Hopefully it won’t get that far. Another thing they said is that fatty foods can trigger reactions. So basically, eat healthier. So today I had all intentions of tackling the weeds that have taken over the back yard, but instead have tried to catch up on sleep. Also, If anyone has recipes that are more on the nutritious side let me know.  All my good recipes are not the healthiest, which I’ll still make but I’m going to try and at least have healthy meals out number the non healthy ones.

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