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Last night I had a pretty dramatic ambulance ride and a jolly visit to the ER due to chest pain that was quite fantastic in its intensity. It felt like a knife stuck in my right lung and went from a 0 to 9 on the pain scale in about a minute and a half or two. I'm pretty used to various chest pains, but that was unique and I couldn't take a breath that wasn't a very shallow one, and I was on the verge of passing out from the pain, so decided to err on the side of caution and John called an ambulance.
I don't remember much from the ambulance ride except for clinging to the oxygen mask and the medic telling the volunteer girl that "cystic fibrosis is a special and difficult disease", but I do remember the deer-in-headlights look the doctor had on his face when he was told the patient is a 28-year-old cystic fibrosis patient. Boy, it's like they never saw an adult CFer before! Which just can't be, because they've seen me before there, and should have remembered me =)
It turned out to be a particularly nasty chest muscle cramp. Damn. I have those from time to time and yes, they hurt like a motherfucking bitch, and yes, they don't let yo draw a breath of air, but fuck, it was never that bad before. Well, I guess it's good to know that this can happen and it's normal, too, so next time I won't need to show up in the ER in my finest ratty sweatpants that are two sizes too big for me and my finest flannel plaid shirt that's four sizes too big for me.
The doctor was cute, though. He had no idea what to do with a CFer with severe chest pain, or, probably, what CF is and how it is managed, but he was cute, I'll give him that.
I don't remember much from the ambulance ride except for clinging to the oxygen mask and the medic telling the volunteer girl that "cystic fibrosis is a special and difficult disease", but I do remember the deer-in-headlights look the doctor had on his face when he was told the patient is a 28-year-old cystic fibrosis patient. Boy, it's like they never saw an adult CFer before! Which just can't be, because they've seen me before there, and should have remembered me =)
It turned out to be a particularly nasty chest muscle cramp. Damn. I have those from time to time and yes, they hurt like a motherfucking bitch, and yes, they don't let yo draw a breath of air, but fuck, it was never that bad before. Well, I guess it's good to know that this can happen and it's normal, too, so next time I won't need to show up in the ER in my finest ratty sweatpants that are two sizes too big for me and my finest flannel plaid shirt that's four sizes too big for me.
The doctor was cute, though. He had no idea what to do with a CFer with severe chest pain, or, probably, what CF is and how it is managed, but he was cute, I'll give him that.