The very, very worst birthday
May. 4th, 2004 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbandruidWarning: I'm too lazy to LJ-cut this. The following contains details of medical stuff you may not want to know. If so, stop reading now. Thanks. :)
Oh, my gods.
I have had the weekend from hell.
Saturday: Woke up with huge fucking pain in my side. Thought it was cramps. Turns out? Probably a kindey stone. Yeah. Well, I didn't know that at the time and I thought, screw this, my body (in person of my ankle) kept me from doing what I wanted to last weekend, so I'm going out today.
Mom had fed me some Codine earlier, left over from one of our medical problems. Can't even remember which one. So when I threw up in the bathroom at Port-of-Subs, I thought it was that.
Also, Anna (my laptop) aquired a very nasty worm. I still haven't gotten that sorted out yet.
Sunday: My birthday. Much better, or so I thought. The pain was still there, but considerably less. I ignored it, hung out at home for a bit, went out and had dinner. Stopped off to see my grandparents, came home, discovered Baskin Robbins had given us someone else's ice cream cake (sigh), watched Alias, went to bed.
Monday: Woke up at 4AM, screaming pain in my side. Also nausia was back. Threw up birthday dinner, also birthday cake. Called urgent care place. They said they opened at 8:00. Turns out the lab next to them does that, they don't open till ten. Unfortunatly, we discovered that when we were already there. Couldn't get through to my doctor's office, so we went to the hospital.
Where they hooked me up to IVs, gave me anti-nausia meds which made me very high and left me climbing up the walls, sobbing uncontrolably and telling my mother I wanted to go home. Poor Mom had been making a phone call when the drugs kicked in, so she came back and was like, "What happened while I was gone? What'd they do to you?" And I was all, "N-nothing, I just want to go hoooooome!"
Not fun.
Also got various blood tests and a urine one to rule out (I guess) a bladder infection. No such luck, it wasn't that easy. CT scan to rule out kidney stone. Which they didn't find only because I think I'd already gotten rid of it by then- the pain was much better by that point. As in, gone. The doctor said there had been blood in my urine, but that was probably just from my period. I was pretty out of it at the time, otherwise it would've occured to me to tell him that no, it wasn't from my period because they had done the urine test with a catheter. *shudder*
Anyway, the doc sent me for X-rays. X-rays were traumatic. They had me stand on this little platform, and I thought, well, okay, whatever. Then it lies back flat while I'm on it. They warned me, but still. And as if that wasn't bad enough, then they put it upright again so I could get off again. Oh yes, let me off. Let me off now.
In the end, ER got slammed and they finally saw fit to get rid of me. They sent me home with what one nurse called "a lovely parting gift" with a great deal of sarcasm. A gallon of laxative. No, seriously. A gallon. Which I was to drink all of. Just, you know, to really clear things out.
So I went home and started on that. It at least didn't taste bad, but the affects were about what you'd expect. I was very tired of it by the end of the night. And it's still not quite done yet today, which is Tuesday.
So. Here's where I stand. I missed my Soc test. My teacher will probably let me make it up when I tell her where I was, but still, this bothers me. I also missed the last section of chapter 8 and the review for the test in Algebra, which is tomorrow. So that's one problem I'm going to miss right away. And since I wasn't at school yesterday, I wasn't able to get up to disabled students to schedule a time to take my test there. Which means that when I call today to tell them when I need to do it, they are probably going to yell at me. They like more notice.
Yeah, well, I like not having a kidney stone, so stand in line.
My computer still has a virus; I'm typing this from Mom's, which is very weird. I have an essay to finish writing for Soc, an Algebra test to somehow try and study for, homework to do, two very sore kidneys (like someone kicked them), the afteraffects of my gallon of joy (I didn't drink all of it, but I did have to take most of it, damnitall), a stab mark from a failed IV in my left wrist, and the place where they finally were able to put the IV, in my right elbow.
Anyway, if anyone's been wondering where I've been and why I haven't done the stuff online that I usually do- that's why. Sorry. I'll get back into things as I can, but right now I've got to make sure I'm really okay, read up on how to avoid kidney stones in the future, and try not to flunk my classes.
Oh, and if anyone isn't too busy? I could really use a hug. Or two or ten.
Oh, my gods.
I have had the weekend from hell.
Saturday: Woke up with huge fucking pain in my side. Thought it was cramps. Turns out? Probably a kindey stone. Yeah. Well, I didn't know that at the time and I thought, screw this, my body (in person of my ankle) kept me from doing what I wanted to last weekend, so I'm going out today.
Mom had fed me some Codine earlier, left over from one of our medical problems. Can't even remember which one. So when I threw up in the bathroom at Port-of-Subs, I thought it was that.
Also, Anna (my laptop) aquired a very nasty worm. I still haven't gotten that sorted out yet.
Sunday: My birthday. Much better, or so I thought. The pain was still there, but considerably less. I ignored it, hung out at home for a bit, went out and had dinner. Stopped off to see my grandparents, came home, discovered Baskin Robbins had given us someone else's ice cream cake (sigh), watched Alias, went to bed.
Monday: Woke up at 4AM, screaming pain in my side. Also nausia was back. Threw up birthday dinner, also birthday cake. Called urgent care place. They said they opened at 8:00. Turns out the lab next to them does that, they don't open till ten. Unfortunatly, we discovered that when we were already there. Couldn't get through to my doctor's office, so we went to the hospital.
Where they hooked me up to IVs, gave me anti-nausia meds which made me very high and left me climbing up the walls, sobbing uncontrolably and telling my mother I wanted to go home. Poor Mom had been making a phone call when the drugs kicked in, so she came back and was like, "What happened while I was gone? What'd they do to you?" And I was all, "N-nothing, I just want to go hoooooome!"
Not fun.
Also got various blood tests and a urine one to rule out (I guess) a bladder infection. No such luck, it wasn't that easy. CT scan to rule out kidney stone. Which they didn't find only because I think I'd already gotten rid of it by then- the pain was much better by that point. As in, gone. The doctor said there had been blood in my urine, but that was probably just from my period. I was pretty out of it at the time, otherwise it would've occured to me to tell him that no, it wasn't from my period because they had done the urine test with a catheter. *shudder*
Anyway, the doc sent me for X-rays. X-rays were traumatic. They had me stand on this little platform, and I thought, well, okay, whatever. Then it lies back flat while I'm on it. They warned me, but still. And as if that wasn't bad enough, then they put it upright again so I could get off again. Oh yes, let me off. Let me off now.
In the end, ER got slammed and they finally saw fit to get rid of me. They sent me home with what one nurse called "a lovely parting gift" with a great deal of sarcasm. A gallon of laxative. No, seriously. A gallon. Which I was to drink all of. Just, you know, to really clear things out.
So I went home and started on that. It at least didn't taste bad, but the affects were about what you'd expect. I was very tired of it by the end of the night. And it's still not quite done yet today, which is Tuesday.
So. Here's where I stand. I missed my Soc test. My teacher will probably let me make it up when I tell her where I was, but still, this bothers me. I also missed the last section of chapter 8 and the review for the test in Algebra, which is tomorrow. So that's one problem I'm going to miss right away. And since I wasn't at school yesterday, I wasn't able to get up to disabled students to schedule a time to take my test there. Which means that when I call today to tell them when I need to do it, they are probably going to yell at me. They like more notice.
Yeah, well, I like not having a kidney stone, so stand in line.
My computer still has a virus; I'm typing this from Mom's, which is very weird. I have an essay to finish writing for Soc, an Algebra test to somehow try and study for, homework to do, two very sore kidneys (like someone kicked them), the afteraffects of my gallon of joy (I didn't drink all of it, but I did have to take most of it, damnitall), a stab mark from a failed IV in my left wrist, and the place where they finally were able to put the IV, in my right elbow.
Anyway, if anyone's been wondering where I've been and why I haven't done the stuff online that I usually do- that's why. Sorry. I'll get back into things as I can, but right now I've got to make sure I'm really okay, read up on how to avoid kidney stones in the future, and try not to flunk my classes.
Oh, and if anyone isn't too busy? I could really use a hug. Or two or ten.
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Date: 2004-05-04 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-05 06:51 pm (UTC)Does your other half have any suggestions for how to avoid these things in the future?
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Date: 2004-05-05 10:13 pm (UTC)I found some info here but it's not a whole lot.
Drink lots of water, and cranberry juice (good for the urinary tract in general)...
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Date: 2004-05-09 09:05 am (UTC)Thanks for the link.
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Date: 2004-05-04 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-05 06:52 pm (UTC)Am very behind on t_m and related crap, of course... shall try to catch up.
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