Visited the ER today. Woke up this morning nauseous and the minor pain/discomfort that has been building since the biopsy to the left of the drilled in hole had moved further around my left side and was making it's way towards the gut. Got up and went in to work long enough to tell bossman I was leaving; God bless him for being understanding. Drove back home and managed to hold in last nights dinner; barely. Went back to bed. Have been avoiding the tramadol due to the nightmares I can't wake myself up from. Slept till 12:30ish (aside from a phone call from J around 10:30 making sure I was still functioning as I'd called and asked him around 7:30 if he'd check in on me). 12:30 and still in a bit of pain and lots of discomfort. Called nephrology nurse, V, and I left her vm. About 10 minutes later she calls back and goes over symptoms and of course, recommends getting checked out by the ER. Got there sometime after 1 but still within the 1-something hour. Checked out around 5:45. A played chauffeur (THANK YOU) taking me to/from ER and keeping me company and laughing while I was there. The laughing didn't help with the pain, but I totally appreciated the effort. Tests run and CT scans performed. Blood on tap was kind of neat to watch as they took it out. First test back was showing I wasn't pregnant. Well no ****. Have to have sex for that ;-) Told them I wasn't and they ran it anyways; guess everyone has to get their buck. High white blood cell count; no kidding. High potassium; weird, but not earth shattering. Prescribed goop to drink for that to bring it back down to normal level; currently waiting for it to kick in and do its thing. Peed in the cup and they found oober trace amounts of blood and mentioned the word 'hematoma' (sp?). Those things combined are apparently what's causing the discomfort/pain. Still doesn't explain why it's getting worse, not better. But they said to take pain meds and if it's not better by Fri to follow-up with nephrology. Also told me to call and follow-up tomorrow with nephrology anyways. Since I'll already be there for the rheuamatology appt where they will tell me that the biopsy didn't give us a dang bit of useful information, figure I'll just stop by Dr M's office while I'm in the neighborhood.
*deep breath*
Can't afford to keep doing this but I don't have a choice. I wouldn't have gone to the ER if I hadn't believed something was actually not right; hate ER's and the docs working there normally don't give a frak. Today's ER doc I give kudos too. His bedside manner was a bit lacking, but after wandering off after giving results he actually came back twice while I was waiting for discharge paperwork to ask me a couple of questions about my past history and some other stuff and actually called up my nephrologist. So Kudo's Mr ER doc for seeming to actually give a crud; you're many cuts above all but one who has come before you in my last 11 years of visits between Houston and Austin.
Maybe we'll know something more tomorrow. Maybe we won't. Till then I just need to stay awake as long as possible to keep the nightmares at bay as there's no one here now to wake me from them and won't be for some time.
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Things will be better tomorrow. I give them no choice.
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