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Dang, crazy last few days. Last night Josh called me around 11:30 and woke me up to go to the Halo 3 launch. I never liked Halo but I figured what the hell, why not? So we go down to Gamestop and first of all, I could not believe the fucking line of people there. I mean, come on! It's a fucking video game! When the employees opened the door, not even to let people in, everyone in the line started cheering and clapping like they were seeing their favorite bands or something. Yea, let's all clap because now we have yet ANOTHER reason to never leave the house! Wooo!!! But, I digress...
So we get the game and head over to Josh's house. They fire it up, it looks okay, but there's seriously NOTHING NEW about it. It's the same damned game in a prettier, shinier presentation. Shit like that bums me out, that people get all worked up over something that's not even groundbreaking in any way. Gah. Couple hours pass, I'm fucking bored as hell, and around 2.30 I get a text from my sister asking me if I was still awake. Being awake, I answered yes. I come to find out that my mom was suffering from extreme abdominal pain and had to call 911 to dispatch an ambulance and take her to the hospital. She was at the hospital and getting some preliminary blood work done when I heard about the whole thing, so there was no information or any clues as to what it might have been. The doctors said it could have been her liver, heart, or a couple of other things. So it wasn't going to be quick and easy. I couldn't make it down to the hospital and I couldn't get ahold of my mom (obviously) so I just had to sit tight and wait for some news.
So I called my mom this morning and she didn't answer. She ended up calling me back around 3.30 in the afternoon, so my sister and I drove down to the hospital to see what was going on. The doctors had still not been able to diagnose her. Needless to say, we were worried. I don't think I have ever seen my mom look the way she did in that hospital bed. She looked so small and frail. It really pained me to see her like that. So we found out that the test she was supposed to have been given was not given to her, so the results were still inconclusive and it was going to take a couple more hours before they would know anything. The nurses said that it looked like she might have pancreantitis, which is an infection in the pancreas. She had her gallbladder removed a few months back and some patients will get an aftershock from that surgery in the form of pancreantitis. But they still couldn't be sure. Her heart rate was 188/90 and her blood enzymes were through the roof, so the doctors were pretty puzzled. Anyway, they gave her a full-on abdominal ultrasound and everything was back to normal. I don't understand what it was and how it just went away like that, but I guess that just happens. I just hope it doesn't happen to her again.
A few years back I was visiting my family in New Mexico when I woke up around 2am with probably the worst pain I have ever felt in my life, also in my abdomen. The pain was so great I could hardly even get out of bed. Even breathing shot spikes of pain throughout my entire body. I was freaking out. My dad drove me to the ICU where they proceeded to draw a ridiculous amount of blood out of my body. They thought, from the symptoms I was having and the area that was being affected, that my appendix had burst. Which is pretty cool that it didn't, because that could have killed me. Heh. They gave me an ultrasound to try and assess the problem, but they still weren't really sure of what it was. They had to keep me overnight and when I woke up in the morning they took a bunch more blood out of me (needless to say, I wasn't walking much for the next couple days). As it ends up, I just had a bunch of inflamed lymph nodes down my right side and it went away in about two days. It's insane what the human body does on its own.
So anyway, my mom was released this evening and she came home. She's exhausted and can barely walk, but she'll be alright. Her work forbid her to come in tomorrow and I'm seriously going to hide her car keys because she'll probably try to go to the gym in the morning. That woman is crazy. Yep but I'm just going to keep an eye on her for the next few days and make sure nothing happens. If I lost my mom I don't know what I'd do.
So we get the game and head over to Josh's house. They fire it up, it looks okay, but there's seriously NOTHING NEW about it. It's the same damned game in a prettier, shinier presentation. Shit like that bums me out, that people get all worked up over something that's not even groundbreaking in any way. Gah. Couple hours pass, I'm fucking bored as hell, and around 2.30 I get a text from my sister asking me if I was still awake. Being awake, I answered yes. I come to find out that my mom was suffering from extreme abdominal pain and had to call 911 to dispatch an ambulance and take her to the hospital. She was at the hospital and getting some preliminary blood work done when I heard about the whole thing, so there was no information or any clues as to what it might have been. The doctors said it could have been her liver, heart, or a couple of other things. So it wasn't going to be quick and easy. I couldn't make it down to the hospital and I couldn't get ahold of my mom (obviously) so I just had to sit tight and wait for some news.
So I called my mom this morning and she didn't answer. She ended up calling me back around 3.30 in the afternoon, so my sister and I drove down to the hospital to see what was going on. The doctors had still not been able to diagnose her. Needless to say, we were worried. I don't think I have ever seen my mom look the way she did in that hospital bed. She looked so small and frail. It really pained me to see her like that. So we found out that the test she was supposed to have been given was not given to her, so the results were still inconclusive and it was going to take a couple more hours before they would know anything. The nurses said that it looked like she might have pancreantitis, which is an infection in the pancreas. She had her gallbladder removed a few months back and some patients will get an aftershock from that surgery in the form of pancreantitis. But they still couldn't be sure. Her heart rate was 188/90 and her blood enzymes were through the roof, so the doctors were pretty puzzled. Anyway, they gave her a full-on abdominal ultrasound and everything was back to normal. I don't understand what it was and how it just went away like that, but I guess that just happens. I just hope it doesn't happen to her again.
A few years back I was visiting my family in New Mexico when I woke up around 2am with probably the worst pain I have ever felt in my life, also in my abdomen. The pain was so great I could hardly even get out of bed. Even breathing shot spikes of pain throughout my entire body. I was freaking out. My dad drove me to the ICU where they proceeded to draw a ridiculous amount of blood out of my body. They thought, from the symptoms I was having and the area that was being affected, that my appendix had burst. Which is pretty cool that it didn't, because that could have killed me. Heh. They gave me an ultrasound to try and assess the problem, but they still weren't really sure of what it was. They had to keep me overnight and when I woke up in the morning they took a bunch more blood out of me (needless to say, I wasn't walking much for the next couple days). As it ends up, I just had a bunch of inflamed lymph nodes down my right side and it went away in about two days. It's insane what the human body does on its own.
So anyway, my mom was released this evening and she came home. She's exhausted and can barely walk, but she'll be alright. Her work forbid her to come in tomorrow and I'm seriously going to hide her car keys because she'll probably try to go to the gym in the morning. That woman is crazy. Yep but I'm just going to keep an eye on her for the next few days and make sure nothing happens. If I lost my mom I don't know what I'd do.