Hospitalized--Ugh!
What a weekend I had. Actually, what a past six days I had. Last Wednesday night, I got terribly sick as a dog, and by morning I was calling my boss, asking her to please take me to the hospital. To make a long story short: I had an intestinal blockage that prevented me from going to the bathroom, causing me great pain. So I ended up in the hospital with a tube up my nose and down my throat to my stomach so it could decompress it. I had IV's connected to me and oxygen. I had mucho x-rays taken and push-button doses of morphine whenever I needed it. I was totally miserable. Truly.
Thank goodness, I came back to life and all the crap in my stomach removed and surgery averted. I was released from the hospital yesterday and I can now walk upright again and I'm starting to get my appetite back. Hard, solid food is still out of the question right now I think; still doing the soft, liquid diet right now. It was so strange how it all happened. I felt totally fine at work, until I came home and all Hell broke loose. The SO even flew up on Saturday to be with me, what a guy! He left today to fly back to Texas.
I think I'll be okay to go back to work tomorrow. The boss has been really great, she said not to come back unless I'm 100%. I think I will be.
It's really weird; I have a super-sensitive stomach to begin with and the cause of what happened, the doctors believe, might have something to do with my previous surgeries. I had an appendectomy when I was 5 that apparently left me with a lot of scar tissue. Then my right ovary removal last year that prevented me from deploying to Iraq with my unit. They commented also on how much scar tissue there was. That's what the doctor's think that caused the blockage. It's just a big question mark on how and when these things happen. Could it happen to me again? Maybe, but hopefully not! I hadn't felt that bad in 8 years, and that time I had gotten food poisoning.
It feels good to be me again. Dragon's not dead yet. :-)
Thank goodness, I came back to life and all the crap in my stomach removed and surgery averted. I was released from the hospital yesterday and I can now walk upright again and I'm starting to get my appetite back. Hard, solid food is still out of the question right now I think; still doing the soft, liquid diet right now. It was so strange how it all happened. I felt totally fine at work, until I came home and all Hell broke loose. The SO even flew up on Saturday to be with me, what a guy! He left today to fly back to Texas.
I think I'll be okay to go back to work tomorrow. The boss has been really great, she said not to come back unless I'm 100%. I think I will be.
It's really weird; I have a super-sensitive stomach to begin with and the cause of what happened, the doctors believe, might have something to do with my previous surgeries. I had an appendectomy when I was 5 that apparently left me with a lot of scar tissue. Then my right ovary removal last year that prevented me from deploying to Iraq with my unit. They commented also on how much scar tissue there was. That's what the doctor's think that caused the blockage. It's just a big question mark on how and when these things happen. Could it happen to me again? Maybe, but hopefully not! I hadn't felt that bad in 8 years, and that time I had gotten food poisoning.
It feels good to be me again. Dragon's not dead yet. :-)