I Promised An Update, So...
Here it be.
So I was having terrible stomach pain, but I've been writing that off as gas/acid for upwards of three years now. So that is not what found me in a hospital bed at five in the morning - it was the blood in my vomit that my stomach pain caused.
I assumed ulcer.
I was WAY off.
Apparently, throwing up breaks blood vessels in the throat. The blood? Nothing at all. The pain? NOT nothing. I've never been treated so rapidly as I did that day. I came in, they triaged me, they immediately put me in an ER bed, and before any time passed AT ALL, I had a saline IV, was hooked up to an EKG machine, heart monitor and had a blood pressure cuff on that took my blood pressure every 15 minutes. This was all less than ten minutes after I walked in.
Pregnant girl with stomach pain and bloody vomit? Apparently urgent as shit. They had me freaking monitored faster than I get in to see my regular doctor WITH AN APPOINTMENT. It was insane.
Half of me rejoiced at the awesome service, and half of me said 'OH SHI- SRSLY? BAD TIEMS NAO?'
It's kinda scary when they treat you like you might go into cardiac arrest at any second.
So they gave me anti-nausea drugs via the IV, gave me some Tylenol, refused to let me drink even WATER (which sucked ass because I could taste everything they put in my IV, huzzah >.>) and sent me off to ultrasound to check for anything and everything.
Ultrasound guy was hilarious, and he found a whole ton of stones in my gallbladder. My body has been making rocks. WTF body?
So... they put me on antibiotics, and a surgeon came and said, 'You're far enough along in your pregnancy. We need to operate.'
And I was like 'SURPRISE SURGERY?! WHUT?!'
Apparently, if I opted out of the surgery and my gallbladder got too infected later in pregnancy, there would be a huge risk to me and baby. So what could I do? I talked with Ray and we said yes.
All in all, it went well. I was admitted to pediatrics, they did four small incisions instead of the one big cut, and my stay was pleasant. Morphine is boo, though. Oh, and my surgeon's assistant called my sleeping concoction a 'Pina Colada', and wouldn't you know, it actually looked like one.
I asked the nurse what my body is going to do with my bile without a gallbladder like right when I woke up and she said, 'You know, no one has ever asked me that, and I don't know.' WTF? Do people really not give a damn what happens in their bodies? I want to know this, damn it!
Tiara and her long-standing boyfriend Eddie came to visit me, and she brought me the baby blanket she made for me! And and and a koala with a baby koala on its back! Isn't she super awesome?
Tyler and Bobek also came, and they drove me home, since our car was a bad choice with no suspension.
Terry came too, and brought me flowers and a balloon. Then she told me how bad her gallbladder was and told me I'd have diarrhea forever. But NO, HA! Only 20% of people have that problem, and I am not in the 1 out of 5 group. I am lucky and am in the 4 out of 5 group. No real problems as of yet - knock on wood.
All in all, I was there for two days, ate crazy liquid food, it hurt a bunch, but it wasn't so bad. I just had a while of not being able to do much of anything and being super tired face a lot. I slept like the dead, and couldn't sit up or lay down, so I had to have a pillow fort to keep me reclined. Now, I mostly only have pain when I put pressure on it or if I stupidly try to push/pull/lift anything remotely heavy.
I did push my recovery back a bit with a supposed to be relaxing day at the lake that resulted in my being stranded in the middle of a lake, hurting myself trying to pull myself onto a Jetski, and having to swim like 1/4 a mile to shore all by myself. ...That was NOT how that day was supposed to go. I was supposed to get to just float around near the shore, damn it!
Also, I must not whine much and/or have a large pain tolerance (a total surprise to me) because my nurse was like 'you're gonna do GREAT, since you're so brave'. And I was like 'whut?' I think it's because I kept walking when she took me walking and she was like 'if it hurts, stop' and well, I wanted to be done with walking, and I also wanted to heal right, and if walking would help with that, I was gonna walk. ...Even if I had to walk all hunched and silly-like. It totally made me think of Sunhawk's Ion arc, actually, when Heero is in the hospital. Which of course, kept me in awesome spirits.
Oh, and someone hit my brother-in-law while he was driving our car, so... it doesn't exist anymore. We're buying the car Ray's dad was going to sell though, and since it doesn't need shocks, it'll be much easier with baby. (The other one would have had to be fixed before baby came - it was REALLY bad.)
*Takes deep breaths*
So much to update, so little energy, LOL.
OH. And my mom's executive won the court case to give me $400 dollars a month again, like she used to once upon a time, for school, so I'll be going to school online from home. Yay! Things actually look decent, especially with school money coming - baby stuff will be bought! YAY!
Anyone on my flist in the NorCal area or the upper SoCal area can come to my Baby Shower in October, if you wish. (I doubt it, but you never know. Not many of you even live here, lol.)
Believe it or not, I've kept it short and sweet. Lawl.
Now to go to my doctor's appointment tomorrow, write some more pieces for the Porn Battle before it's too late, and then get to work on Merith's piece, Kracken's piece, and my MoR entries. So much to write! Need to work on World, too, but MoR takes precedence, since there's a deadline. So unless the bunny eats me alive, that's postponed about a month.
OKAY. LISHA SHUTS UP NOW. Finally.
So I was having terrible stomach pain, but I've been writing that off as gas/acid for upwards of three years now. So that is not what found me in a hospital bed at five in the morning - it was the blood in my vomit that my stomach pain caused.
I assumed ulcer.
I was WAY off.
Apparently, throwing up breaks blood vessels in the throat. The blood? Nothing at all. The pain? NOT nothing. I've never been treated so rapidly as I did that day. I came in, they triaged me, they immediately put me in an ER bed, and before any time passed AT ALL, I had a saline IV, was hooked up to an EKG machine, heart monitor and had a blood pressure cuff on that took my blood pressure every 15 minutes. This was all less than ten minutes after I walked in.
Pregnant girl with stomach pain and bloody vomit? Apparently urgent as shit. They had me freaking monitored faster than I get in to see my regular doctor WITH AN APPOINTMENT. It was insane.
Half of me rejoiced at the awesome service, and half of me said 'OH SHI- SRSLY? BAD TIEMS NAO?'
It's kinda scary when they treat you like you might go into cardiac arrest at any second.
So they gave me anti-nausea drugs via the IV, gave me some Tylenol, refused to let me drink even WATER (which sucked ass because I could taste everything they put in my IV, huzzah >.>) and sent me off to ultrasound to check for anything and everything.
Ultrasound guy was hilarious, and he found a whole ton of stones in my gallbladder. My body has been making rocks. WTF body?
So... they put me on antibiotics, and a surgeon came and said, 'You're far enough along in your pregnancy. We need to operate.'
And I was like 'SURPRISE SURGERY?! WHUT?!'
Apparently, if I opted out of the surgery and my gallbladder got too infected later in pregnancy, there would be a huge risk to me and baby. So what could I do? I talked with Ray and we said yes.
All in all, it went well. I was admitted to pediatrics, they did four small incisions instead of the one big cut, and my stay was pleasant. Morphine is boo, though. Oh, and my surgeon's assistant called my sleeping concoction a 'Pina Colada', and wouldn't you know, it actually looked like one.
I asked the nurse what my body is going to do with my bile without a gallbladder like right when I woke up and she said, 'You know, no one has ever asked me that, and I don't know.' WTF? Do people really not give a damn what happens in their bodies? I want to know this, damn it!
Tiara and her long-standing boyfriend Eddie came to visit me, and she brought me the baby blanket she made for me! And and and a koala with a baby koala on its back! Isn't she super awesome?
Tyler and Bobek also came, and they drove me home, since our car was a bad choice with no suspension.
Terry came too, and brought me flowers and a balloon. Then she told me how bad her gallbladder was and told me I'd have diarrhea forever. But NO, HA! Only 20% of people have that problem, and I am not in the 1 out of 5 group. I am lucky and am in the 4 out of 5 group. No real problems as of yet - knock on wood.
All in all, I was there for two days, ate crazy liquid food, it hurt a bunch, but it wasn't so bad. I just had a while of not being able to do much of anything and being super tired face a lot. I slept like the dead, and couldn't sit up or lay down, so I had to have a pillow fort to keep me reclined. Now, I mostly only have pain when I put pressure on it or if I stupidly try to push/pull/lift anything remotely heavy.
I did push my recovery back a bit with a supposed to be relaxing day at the lake that resulted in my being stranded in the middle of a lake, hurting myself trying to pull myself onto a Jetski, and having to swim like 1/4 a mile to shore all by myself. ...That was NOT how that day was supposed to go. I was supposed to get to just float around near the shore, damn it!
Also, I must not whine much and/or have a large pain tolerance (a total surprise to me) because my nurse was like 'you're gonna do GREAT, since you're so brave'. And I was like 'whut?' I think it's because I kept walking when she took me walking and she was like 'if it hurts, stop' and well, I wanted to be done with walking, and I also wanted to heal right, and if walking would help with that, I was gonna walk. ...Even if I had to walk all hunched and silly-like. It totally made me think of Sunhawk's Ion arc, actually, when Heero is in the hospital. Which of course, kept me in awesome spirits.
Oh, and someone hit my brother-in-law while he was driving our car, so... it doesn't exist anymore. We're buying the car Ray's dad was going to sell though, and since it doesn't need shocks, it'll be much easier with baby. (The other one would have had to be fixed before baby came - it was REALLY bad.)
*Takes deep breaths*
So much to update, so little energy, LOL.
OH. And my mom's executive won the court case to give me $400 dollars a month again, like she used to once upon a time, for school, so I'll be going to school online from home. Yay! Things actually look decent, especially with school money coming - baby stuff will be bought! YAY!
Anyone on my flist in the NorCal area or the upper SoCal area can come to my Baby Shower in October, if you wish. (I doubt it, but you never know. Not many of you even live here, lol.)
Believe it or not, I've kept it short and sweet. Lawl.
Now to go to my doctor's appointment tomorrow, write some more pieces for the Porn Battle before it's too late, and then get to work on Merith's piece, Kracken's piece, and my MoR entries. So much to write! Need to work on World, too, but MoR takes precedence, since there's a deadline. So unless the bunny eats me alive, that's postponed about a month.
OKAY. LISHA SHUTS UP NOW. Finally.