Sunday, April 06, 2008

21 weeks...shoot me now

This past was Spring Break, the last holiday before the final lap until summer (that is a long 2 month lap). The first day was looking great. It was Sophia's birthday and we were going to the Tampa Zoo. It was sunny, little hotter than expected, but I bought lots of overpriced water and sat. Sean was the one who took Sophia and the rides and such. I didn't mind, I even kinda enjoyed the breaks. Then, as we were leaving I started getting really cramps and it hurt like hell to pee. The two and a half hours to get home didn't make things any better. In fact, by the time I got home I still had the cramps but my right side hurt like a bitch and I was so cold. I had to lay on the couch while Sophia opened the last of her presents (which she loves). But by 8 pm my pain had gotten much worse. We dropped Sophia off at my parents and Sean took me to the local hospital (couldn't stand the pain for the hour drive to Winter Haven where my doctor's are) luckily Dr. Cooper was on call. While there they couldn't figure out what it was but knew things it wasn't. Eventually, it was determined I had a bowel blockage and needed an enema (not so bad).

Well, that seemed to work, I began to feel much better (not great but no pain), I even was getting energy back.

But...

Then on Tuesday (thank you Sean for literally sleeping until 3pm and leaving at 4:30, that made my pain so much better!!!) I notice the pain in my right side again after taking Sophia on a wagon ride 1/2 block. It was just annoying nothing bad. by 4pm it was defiantly becoming a problem. I tried calling my doctor, but was on hold for 20 minutes and figure that was fate telling me it can wait. BAD MOVE. After dinner (which i was able to actually eat after 2 days) the pain was as bad as it was on Saturday. By the time Sean got home I was crying from the pain, which had added my shoulder blade and top of my shoulder, both sides of my head and eyes, plus was causing tingling in my arm and hip. My Tylenol PM was not helping, it hardly got me to sleep. I think I got 2 hours that night.

By 8am the next morning we were all in the van driving to the doctor to get there right when they opened. The doctor was convinced it was just the intestinal flu and would pass, but just in case I had a Kidney infection (had blood in my urine) she prescribed me some antibiotics....which did the trick. After having to have my mom watch both Sophia and me while Sean was at work I feel just about normal. Except the drugs are now giving me the runs, so much so I still have no energy.

Tomorrow I get to find out if I can make it through a day a work. I doubt it since I hardly made it through a hour of lite grocery shopping. All I can say is I hope I get back to normalcy because I can't this crazy poop cycle (constipated, sick, diarrhea) anymore and I don't have the energy to do more than this, sit and type and I still have 19 more months of this...all summer...all long, hot, humid Florida summer.

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