My Week So Far
So Saturday during TCE I started feeling funny. It was right before lunchtime and I started feeling really tired and out of it and a little dizzy. My head felt really heavy and it was like I had trouble holding it up- it kept like falling back and then bobbing back and forth. Lunchtime came and I ate some food and felt a little better, but still exhausted. It went away after a little while and then I was fine for the rest of the day. Sunday I was fine all morning until I was sitting in church during the service and started feeling funny again. After the service was over I went to the bathroom and felt like I was going to pass out. I thought it was just because I needed to eat something, so I stopped at a convenience store on my way back to school and bought some pretzels and string cheese and trail mix. I ate, and felt better again, and was fine the rest of the day. Then Monday during class I started feeling funny again but ate at lunch and was fine until later that night. I was sitting on my bed with my laptop, trying to work on my Romans outline for NT. I couldn't focus, though. I all of a sudden got really tired and couldn't keep my head up. I got up to go to the bathroom and my knees buckled a couple of times; I felt like I was going to pass out and started to fall backwards but caught myself. I ended up just going to bed and not finishing my outline. I woke up the next morning feeling the same way. I talked to my NT prof about my outline and told him I couldn't get it done because I was sick and asked if I could turn it in late, and he said I had to talk to the Dean of Women, Mrs. Patterson. So I did, and she gave me an excused absence, and told me I could go home that day and not go to classes on Wednesday. (I was supposed to go home on Wednesday for break anyway, and only had one class so it wasn't a big deal). I knew I wasn't going to be able to pack and drive myself home that day so I just thought I'd stay the night and get a good night's rest and hope I'd be better the next day to go home. So Wednesday I slept in until like 9:30 and wasn't feeling any better, but managed to get my things packed and drove myself to my doctor's office- I had an appointment at 1. I was nervous about it and was so tired the whole time, but managed to make it there safely. So I go in to see my doctor, and tell him what's going on, and was really dizzy and my head started going back, so he said there was no way I was driving home- I was probably dehydrated and needed to go to the ER and get an IV and some blood tests done. My cell phone didn't get reception in the doctor's office so I had to use their phone. I tried calling my house, but no one answered. I tried my brother, but he was still in school and didn't pick up. I couldn't text him or my mom to get a hold of anyone, so my doctor called 911 and I got to ride in an ambulance to the hospital. They took me to South Shore Hospital even though Jordan was closer to the doctor's office and to where I lived, but they said since my heart rate was so low they were going to take me to South Shore because they're better about that kind of stuff. So they hooked me up to an IV and then we got to the hospital around 2:45. Then they took some blood and I finally got a hold of my family and my parents got there around 4. By that time I was out in the hallway because an old woman came in who needed my room because she needed to be undressed and hooked up to oxygen and whatnot and there weren't any other available rooms. So I just laid in the hallway for like 5 1/2 hours. As it got later and later I felt worse and worse; I could barely keep my eyes open and couldn't focus on anything. I started feeling shaky, too; my eyes kept twitching on and off. I had to get up to go to the bathroom and it took me a long time to lift my head up and sit myself up and then stand up, and I had to lean on my mom as I walked to the bathroom. My nurse was like, "You're fine, come on, you were fine before (referring to when I first when to the bathroom when I arrived so they could get a urine sample)" and I was so mad. I was thinking to myself, "I've been laying here all night. Could it have occurred to you that I could be feeling worse now that I was before?" Ugh. I was so upset. My parents weren't happy with the service I got, either. I was too out of it to really care, but that did upset me. My nurse was really nice the rest of the time, but that really upset me that he thought I was milking it. So finally at like 8:30 the doctor came back and said "Your blood tests came back normal, so we think you just have a virus. You just need to go home and rest and drink fluids and it should go away on its own in a few days." So finally, after 6 hours, and 3 liters of fluid pumped into me through an IV, I could go home. So I've just been laying on the couch since then, reading, watching TV, using my laptop. I have to go see my primary doctor next week to follow up. I'm glad it worked out that I have break now so I can just rest and not worry about missing classes. I still have to do my outline, though. I don't feel like I'm making any improvements yet, but hopefully I'll start to within the next couple of days. So, that's been my week so far!