Adventures at the Emergency Clinic
Well after my fun day of being sick yesterday I started to get chest and back pain around 5pm. I've had it before... it's a sharp pain my chest and it seems what helps is breathing in really deep.
Anyway, I took some Tylenol and we left to go get some food at McDonalds. I was just in my PJs cause we were planning on coming right back. Other than still feeling a little weak and gross (I hadn't had the energy to take a shower that day) and the chest/back/shoulder pain, I was feeling pretty much back to normal.
Well half way there it got really bad. I mean... Mind numbingly (sp?) bad. And I have a very high tolerance of pain.
So Ryan asked me if I wanted to go the emergency clinic... I had to think about it, cause I really didn't want to. But, I wasin pain :-( So, he took me. (well, Minor Emergency is all Marble Falls has)
So, after a urine test, a blood test, and checking my cervix to make sure I wasn't dilated at all... It turns out the pain is simply heartburn. I've had hearburn with Logan before... But it had mostly just been an annoying burn rather than a tear-jerking chest/back/shoulder pain.
As it also turns out, I have a urinary tract infection. I had no idea... the symptoms (I've had one before) are basically what I feel every day (have to pee a lot, can't pee much when I do, and when Logan kicks my bladder it feels like a quick burning sensation).
So we got a prescription for amoxycillian... Doc can't prescribe much more than that since I'm 8 months pregnant and there are things that they dont' want in the baby's system when he's born.
The staff was very, very nice, btw... The doctor was amazingly kind and gentle.
I'm so medical happy now with $30 co-pays that I want to make an appointment with the dermotolgist for this weird rashy-type dry skin patch I have had for like 2 years. I can't get in until after Logan's born, though... since they can't prescribe anything to me anyway. Oh well... 2 years... what's another 2 months?
Anyway, I took some Tylenol and we left to go get some food at McDonalds. I was just in my PJs cause we were planning on coming right back. Other than still feeling a little weak and gross (I hadn't had the energy to take a shower that day) and the chest/back/shoulder pain, I was feeling pretty much back to normal.
Well half way there it got really bad. I mean... Mind numbingly (sp?) bad. And I have a very high tolerance of pain.
So Ryan asked me if I wanted to go the emergency clinic... I had to think about it, cause I really didn't want to. But, I wasin pain :-( So, he took me. (well, Minor Emergency is all Marble Falls has)
So, after a urine test, a blood test, and checking my cervix to make sure I wasn't dilated at all... It turns out the pain is simply heartburn. I've had hearburn with Logan before... But it had mostly just been an annoying burn rather than a tear-jerking chest/back/shoulder pain.
As it also turns out, I have a urinary tract infection. I had no idea... the symptoms (I've had one before) are basically what I feel every day (have to pee a lot, can't pee much when I do, and when Logan kicks my bladder it feels like a quick burning sensation).
So we got a prescription for amoxycillian... Doc can't prescribe much more than that since I'm 8 months pregnant and there are things that they dont' want in the baby's system when he's born.
The staff was very, very nice, btw... The doctor was amazingly kind and gentle.
I'm so medical happy now with $30 co-pays that I want to make an appointment with the dermotolgist for this weird rashy-type dry skin patch I have had for like 2 years. I can't get in until after Logan's born, though... since they can't prescribe anything to me anyway. Oh well... 2 years... what's another 2 months?