Weekend Update
So it was an interesting weekend. On Thursday I had started having a pain in my abdomen. It was a pretty dull pain. I didn't think too much of it. Later that night I started getting fevers/hot flashes that lasted anywhere from a few seconds to 1o minutes. I went to work on Friday. The pain was a bit worse. The fevers were still coming and going. I wasn't feeling well at all and got up to go over to the water cooler to get a drink. As I took my first sip I was hit by nausea and an intense desire to not eat or drink anything. I did take a few more sips, as I felt I needed it. I excused myself to go outside and get a bit of fresh air. While outside I decided to call my doctors office. I tried to make an appointment but was told they did not keep office hours on Friday and were in fact on their way out. They did inquire as to the nature of my need for an appointment. I explained my symptoms. They told me to go to the emergency room immediately. That it sounds like appendicitis and that my appendix could rupture and I should go now. I went back into the office and told everyone I was leaving. Made the mad dash in the car to the ER. I don't know if it was adrenaline or what, but I was frantic trying to get there and the pain, nausea, and fevers all got worse. Once there they did blood work, a CT scan, had me drink some stuff, put iodine into my IV (for the CT scan), and did urine tests. After all the results came back it turns out that my appendix does not appear to be inflamed or swollen or in danger. They also checked my kidneys for kidney stones and for general health. Everything checked out. I am then told that it could be something I ate, it could be a viral infection, or that there was a less than 1% chance that it still could be appendicitis and is just not far enough along yet for them to tell. If it gets worse I was to come back in 12 hours for a retest. I am to stay away from spicy and fried foods and alcohol. Terese came over, after I got back from the hospital, to keep me company and we watched movies and hung about. That part of the day was nice. The next day I was feeling mostly better. By Sunday almost completely better, just a super dull pain in my abdomen. Today I get to work and the pain is back, but the fevers and nausea are not. I am going to give it another day or two and if it is not better I am going to make an appointment with my doctor to see f we can get to the bottom of this (now that I know it is at least not immediately life threatening there is not as big a rush). Hopefully after a lot of water and eating lite it will clear out and I will be fine.
The rest of the weekend was nice. I did not play the show in Los Angeles with C is for Carlo like I was supposed to (for obvious reasons). They played though. Saturday I mostly stayed around the house with Terese, ran some errands and whatnot. In the evening we went down to the harbor in Dana Point and got dinner at The Jolly Roger. It was the first solid amount of food I had had yet. It was good. Sunday I did something crazy (but that I am happy I did): I cut my hair! By comparison to how it has been for at least 12 years it is pretty darn short. I like it. After the ER trip it was nothing to get my hair cut, lol. I would normally have been terrified to do so. I think it was just time for a change. Sunday night I ate dinner with Marissa, Terese, and their mom and watched a pretty bad movie about Andy Warhol and some chick he exploited. In addition to a lifetime movie about a high school girl with HIV, which was also really bad, but was at least so bad you could find humor in it. Now I am at work. In a little bit of pain, but not terrible. I hope it subsides tomorrow or the next day. Despite the events on Friday I am sad to see the weekend go. I don't really want to be back at work right now, but I'll deal. At least my boss offered to/covered my shift on Saturday night. That was very nice of him.
Maybe if I remember to do so I will upload some pictures of the new hair for those I don't see regularly to check out. In other news: I re-bought a Nick Drake album and a Pixies album. I missed both. Good times.
The rest of the weekend was nice. I did not play the show in Los Angeles with C is for Carlo like I was supposed to (for obvious reasons). They played though. Saturday I mostly stayed around the house with Terese, ran some errands and whatnot. In the evening we went down to the harbor in Dana Point and got dinner at The Jolly Roger. It was the first solid amount of food I had had yet. It was good. Sunday I did something crazy (but that I am happy I did): I cut my hair! By comparison to how it has been for at least 12 years it is pretty darn short. I like it. After the ER trip it was nothing to get my hair cut, lol. I would normally have been terrified to do so. I think it was just time for a change. Sunday night I ate dinner with Marissa, Terese, and their mom and watched a pretty bad movie about Andy Warhol and some chick he exploited. In addition to a lifetime movie about a high school girl with HIV, which was also really bad, but was at least so bad you could find humor in it. Now I am at work. In a little bit of pain, but not terrible. I hope it subsides tomorrow or the next day. Despite the events on Friday I am sad to see the weekend go. I don't really want to be back at work right now, but I'll deal. At least my boss offered to/covered my shift on Saturday night. That was very nice of him.
Maybe if I remember to do so I will upload some pictures of the new hair for those I don't see regularly to check out. In other news: I re-bought a Nick Drake album and a Pixies album. I missed both. Good times.