Sooo...I'm writing this from the hospital, where I've been since Thursday evening.
Thursday seemed like a perfectly normal day, until around 6:15, when, during my tutoring session, I suddenly felt absolutely horrid. I went from zero to agony in the blink of an eye. My entire abdomin felt like it was being stabbed from every direction. I managed to hang on for another 30 minutes, but then realized I had to leave or risk either throwing up or passing out or possibly both in my tutoree's kitchen. Somehow I managed to drive the 30 minutes home, where my hubby took one look at me and rushed me to the ER.
We were fully convinced it had to be my appendix. But oh, no, it was an obstructed bowel.
You know you're in the worst kind of pain when morphine barely takes the edge off of it.
So, after a night of misery, Friday morning I woke just in time to start projectile vomiting. After I'd done that for a while they decided to stick a tube down through my nose into my stomach to pump out whatever else might be in there (which, as it turns out, wasn't much). Saturday evening I FINALLY had the tube removed and around midnight I was allowed about 2 tbsp of ice chips every four hours, which was the first of anything I had been able to injest since the whole misery started. Thus far today things are going well. I've been allowed broth and jello and soda and am off the IV from hell* and have just learned that I will be allowed to go home today with the caveate that I stick to a liquid diet for some time yet.
Hope y'all's last few days have been better than what I've endured. As for what caused all this misery...well, no way of really knowing. Nothing has pointed to any definite cause. So, yeah, ideopathic bowel obstruction. Not my favorite way to loose the holiday pounds.
*I just counted up recently, I've been stuck 22 times during my stay. I've had 3 different IV placements, each of which took a half dozen or more sticks to find a vein that would work, plus all the blood that has been drawn. My arms are a mass of blue and purple and red welts.
Thursday seemed like a perfectly normal day, until around 6:15, when, during my tutoring session, I suddenly felt absolutely horrid. I went from zero to agony in the blink of an eye. My entire abdomin felt like it was being stabbed from every direction. I managed to hang on for another 30 minutes, but then realized I had to leave or risk either throwing up or passing out or possibly both in my tutoree's kitchen. Somehow I managed to drive the 30 minutes home, where my hubby took one look at me and rushed me to the ER.
We were fully convinced it had to be my appendix. But oh, no, it was an obstructed bowel.
You know you're in the worst kind of pain when morphine barely takes the edge off of it.
So, after a night of misery, Friday morning I woke just in time to start projectile vomiting. After I'd done that for a while they decided to stick a tube down through my nose into my stomach to pump out whatever else might be in there (which, as it turns out, wasn't much). Saturday evening I FINALLY had the tube removed and around midnight I was allowed about 2 tbsp of ice chips every four hours, which was the first of anything I had been able to injest since the whole misery started. Thus far today things are going well. I've been allowed broth and jello and soda and am off the IV from hell* and have just learned that I will be allowed to go home today with the caveate that I stick to a liquid diet for some time yet.
Hope y'all's last few days have been better than what I've endured. As for what caused all this misery...well, no way of really knowing. Nothing has pointed to any definite cause. So, yeah, ideopathic bowel obstruction. Not my favorite way to loose the holiday pounds.
*I just counted up recently, I've been stuck 22 times during my stay. I've had 3 different IV placements, each of which took a half dozen or more sticks to find a vein that would work, plus all the blood that has been drawn. My arms are a mass of blue and purple and red welts.
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