Update on the illness
So it wasn't just a cold.
Last night around 9:30 I think it was, I noticed my arms were getting numb and tingly, and not in the normal "oh they're asleep" way. Apparently I also had a fever, but I didn't find that out until later. I'm getting ready for bed and I stop to cough a lot, Laurel asks me if I'm okay. I admit that I don't think I am, since I thought I was getting better up until a half hour ago. Laurel asks me whats wrong and when I tell her, she takes my hands. My hands are very, very cold. She runs to get Zack and he thinks it might be a circulation problem, so I lie down ands sends Laurel to tell the security guard. Security says I should go to the hospital. Zack called Mia, but hung up when he thought it was better not to worry her, since I was saying at this point I was probably just dehydrated (and Laurel was scrambling to get me water). Mia called back almost immediately however, so Zack told her it was nothing serious like he thought it was, and not to worry. He didn't tell Mia anything specific about me, or sickness, or trips to the hospital. And since I don't think Zack ever got back to Mia after that, she is probably very confused.
So, Zack and Laurel get hold of transportation and they say they will be there in 10 minutes to take me to the emergency room. I get dressed and we go wait outside. We all talk and laugh on the drive up, and we have a surprisingly short wait in the lobby before they call me back. My blood pressure and temperature is taken, this is where I learn I have a fever, and a few questions are asked about the tingly arms. I'm taken into the back room and given a hospital robe to wear, and the doctor comes and there are more questions. Then he tells me he thinks the numbness is related to my cold, so they're going to try and fix that first and if things don't get better or get worse, then to come back.
So he leaves, and a nurse comes in to give me steroids for my throat and some big white pill that I can't remember what it was for, and a penicillin antibiotics shot. For those of you who have never had such a thing before, I'll be brief: they give it to you in the behind, and the medicine stings and burns afterward. I then get to wait a half hour to make sure there are no allergic reactions or bad stuff like that. I ask the nurse to tell my friends waiting in the lobby what's going on, and he offers to bring one of them back here if I'd like, so I ask for Laurel. I'm not sure the time-frame, because I can't see the clock, but Laurel comes in and I tell her everything the doctor told me, and she hangs out and keeps me company while we wait.
Then another nurse comes in when the half hour is up to gives me instructions for my prescription, and also to /finally/ tell me what I've been diagnosed with: acute bronchitis and sinusitis (read: sinus infection), as well as give me my walking papers and the school pass. Then I wait to pay my bill and the three of us wander over to a CVS pharmacy across the street to get my prescription filled. Then, finally, at 1:07 (I remember because I was the one who looked at my cell phone to see) the bus arrives to take us back to O-house. Laurel-chan was very sleepy by then, she is not a night person. I took some NyQuil to help me sleep and that was the end of that adventure.
Last night around 9:30 I think it was, I noticed my arms were getting numb and tingly, and not in the normal "oh they're asleep" way. Apparently I also had a fever, but I didn't find that out until later. I'm getting ready for bed and I stop to cough a lot, Laurel asks me if I'm okay. I admit that I don't think I am, since I thought I was getting better up until a half hour ago. Laurel asks me whats wrong and when I tell her, she takes my hands. My hands are very, very cold. She runs to get Zack and he thinks it might be a circulation problem, so I lie down ands sends Laurel to tell the security guard. Security says I should go to the hospital. Zack called Mia, but hung up when he thought it was better not to worry her, since I was saying at this point I was probably just dehydrated (and Laurel was scrambling to get me water). Mia called back almost immediately however, so Zack told her it was nothing serious like he thought it was, and not to worry. He didn't tell Mia anything specific about me, or sickness, or trips to the hospital. And since I don't think Zack ever got back to Mia after that, she is probably very confused.
So, Zack and Laurel get hold of transportation and they say they will be there in 10 minutes to take me to the emergency room. I get dressed and we go wait outside. We all talk and laugh on the drive up, and we have a surprisingly short wait in the lobby before they call me back. My blood pressure and temperature is taken, this is where I learn I have a fever, and a few questions are asked about the tingly arms. I'm taken into the back room and given a hospital robe to wear, and the doctor comes and there are more questions. Then he tells me he thinks the numbness is related to my cold, so they're going to try and fix that first and if things don't get better or get worse, then to come back.
So he leaves, and a nurse comes in to give me steroids for my throat and some big white pill that I can't remember what it was for, and a penicillin antibiotics shot. For those of you who have never had such a thing before, I'll be brief: they give it to you in the behind, and the medicine stings and burns afterward. I then get to wait a half hour to make sure there are no allergic reactions or bad stuff like that. I ask the nurse to tell my friends waiting in the lobby what's going on, and he offers to bring one of them back here if I'd like, so I ask for Laurel. I'm not sure the time-frame, because I can't see the clock, but Laurel comes in and I tell her everything the doctor told me, and she hangs out and keeps me company while we wait.
Then another nurse comes in when the half hour is up to gives me instructions for my prescription, and also to /finally/ tell me what I've been diagnosed with: acute bronchitis and sinusitis (read: sinus infection), as well as give me my walking papers and the school pass. Then I wait to pay my bill and the three of us wander over to a CVS pharmacy across the street to get my prescription filled. Then, finally, at 1:07 (I remember because I was the one who looked at my cell phone to see) the bus arrives to take us back to O-house. Laurel-chan was very sleepy by then, she is not a night person. I took some NyQuil to help me sleep and that was the end of that adventure.