Thoughts from a hospital

Yes it is me finally writing a blog, but i cant promise that I am back to the blogging world. I am actually writing this from my hospital room where I have been for the past four days and will hopefully going home from tomorrow. It has been quite the journey this past little while and I wanted to write it all down so I could remember. So sit back and get ready for a good story.


THE BEGINNING
About four weeks ago I started to have a headache and a sharp pain in my left side. So, I went to the doctor and the diagnosis was a bladder/kidney infection and possibly a sinus infection. So my Dr.(who is wonderful by the way) put me on an antibiotic and sent me home. About five days later the infection was still hurting my headaches were getting worse so I went back to the Dr.He discovered the infection was still there so he put me on a new antibiotic and decided to try some migraine meds for my headaches. I went home and over the next week I was still not getting much relief. The migraine medicine gave me a worse headache plus crazy side affects. I stopped the medicine and decided with my Doctors advice that I would schedule an appt with a neurologist. This was on a Thursday.

ER VISIT #1
BY Saturday night my head was much worse. I made a late night run to the grocery store for milk and formula and by the time I got home I was wiped out. I woke up Sunday morning and was feeling like I was getting sick, but I had no symptoms. No runny nose, cough, stomach ache, nothing. So I got the kids ready for church and rushed out the door. During Sacrament my body started to ache and I was FREEZING. This continued as I went off to primary and I just felt like I could not get warm. My body hurt so bad but I only had about a half hour before church as out so i decided to stay. Then my dear friend Wanda came and found me and told me that Parker had a high fever. That sealed it. I was going home.
I barely made it home because I was shaking so bad from the pain and chills. I went inside got Parker and I both in out jammies and we laid on the couch. I fed Parker and tried to rest but the pain was getting worse in the body by the second, and my head was aching more than ever. After church Wanda took the other kids to her house, and my friend Karen came to help me with Parker. It was so bad that I couldn't even move to get him some medicine for the fever. This went on for about one hour, and finally Karen tracked down Doug who was still meeting with people at church , to come home to take me to the ER.
When we arrived at the Er I had a fever and I was hurting all over. They gave me some Ibuprofen and then I had to wait for about 2 1/2 hours. By the time I saw the Er doctor, I was sweating all over my fever was gone and he was skeptical about me being sick. He did send me down for a cat scan for my head which came back normal. His diagnosis was a virus and to go home and rest and get plenty of fluids. I think ER doctors are required to give that diagnosis. :0)