to all of you who tried to contact me.....
Well, that was interesting. I am sorry to not respond for the last two days. I have been kind of indisposed. I guess I will do a mini update here too.
well Wednesday afternoon I was feeling pretty crappy, but I assumed it was gas, shook it off and went out and shot darts. went to bed and woke up 2 hours later in some major pain. I thought " Ok here is the gas, where is my mylanta?" took some of that and tried to sleep some more. I didn't get much sleep, I tossed and turned until about 10 am, when I began to vomit bright yellow bile.
At that point I figured I should call my doctor. Well after much shuffling and surfing we got ahold of my doctor and snagged a 11:30 appointment. Went in and he scheduled me after much painful poking and prodding, a C-T scans, after about an hour, I get this call from a very excited guy at my doctors office, telling me to hot foot it to St Jo's, with my c-t films. I run over grab the films, after about an hour in traffic, I get to the emergency room, where I am told they not only did not have a bed for me like I was told, they didn't even know I was coming.
I get taken into a side room and a nurse starts admitting me. Sadee at this point was very very pissed. She is getting huffy with the admitting nurses.I tell her to calm down or I am going to send her home. She then calms, a bit but runs outside and proceeds to try and call my doctor and find out what the hell is going on.
They do not have a bed for me so I have to wait in the lobby, and when people there find out I have appendicitis(sp?) they are like began bitching to the nurses that I need a room ahead of them... now this was a surprise to me as some of them had been there for a long time, one guy had been waiting for over 2 hours.
I finally get a room, and they begin to check me out. I get a cool male nurse who tries to make jokes about my nipple rings and such to keep me entertained. I am perfectly calm and play along. Now I have had no pain meds at this point yet, and am in A LOT of pain. After the doctor comes in and is septic about me having appendicitis, I explain I have the c-t scans and he then takes off and has the resident radiologist take a look at them, and comes back in and apologizes. Apparently the person who had called him from my doctors office was quite rude and set him in a bad mood. He then proceeds to tell me why he was skeptical, I apologize and explain that I was told they had a bed waiting for me and the whole story... yet AGAIN.
They give me some antibiotics and pain meds and take me to the surgery waiting room, I have to wait for the surgeon to come in. after what seems forever, which is actually about 40 mins the surgeon arrives and I am at that point very under the influence of the meds. I slur my words trying to explain the story AGAIN.. *sigh*
The next thing I know I am waking up in my room in quite a bit of pain, it is not across the whole stomach area, so I assume the surgery is done, take a look and see the bandage. I feel a bit of relief but wish for more pain meds. After about an hour or so, a nurse comes in and tells me about the morphine self administering button, I quickly administer some and feel a dulling of the pain.
Sadee show up around 7 am and we play cards and watch TV wait for the doctor. They take me off the IV drugs and give me some percosets. Let me tell you it is a pain in the rear to not be able to urinate on command, I had the nurses very worried until I finally told them I wanted to go into the bathroom. I was warned if I didn't go within the next ten mins, I would get a catheter. Now I in no way wanted a tube up my penis, so I in much pain hobbled to the bathroom.
Ok now nurses satisfied that I was not leaking my bladder into my body let me know that I now just had to wait for the doctor, much more antibiotics and a some horrible liquid diet, the doctor arrives around 2 PM. He allows me to go home and give me even more antibiotics to take,
Sadee runs to pick them up, I have percosets every 4 hours until I feel no pain as they want me up and about as much as I can, antibiotics 1 3 times a day for 3 days, and 1 a day for 3 days, now this seems normal, what I am bitching about is the cost. one of the antibiotics was $28.00 after my insurance. Holy Shit! and when I found out that was for 3 pills, I Thank everything holy, and a few not so holy that I have insurance. $10 a pill wow.
Well I still have to call work Monday and get them to approve a cashing out of my vacation pay so I can be able pay my bills.
Well that pretty much all the story for now. Sorry it was a book, for those of you who read this, I am truly sorry you felt that need.
Be well my friends.
well Wednesday afternoon I was feeling pretty crappy, but I assumed it was gas, shook it off and went out and shot darts. went to bed and woke up 2 hours later in some major pain. I thought " Ok here is the gas, where is my mylanta?" took some of that and tried to sleep some more. I didn't get much sleep, I tossed and turned until about 10 am, when I began to vomit bright yellow bile.
At that point I figured I should call my doctor. Well after much shuffling and surfing we got ahold of my doctor and snagged a 11:30 appointment. Went in and he scheduled me after much painful poking and prodding, a C-T scans, after about an hour, I get this call from a very excited guy at my doctors office, telling me to hot foot it to St Jo's, with my c-t films. I run over grab the films, after about an hour in traffic, I get to the emergency room, where I am told they not only did not have a bed for me like I was told, they didn't even know I was coming.
I get taken into a side room and a nurse starts admitting me. Sadee at this point was very very pissed. She is getting huffy with the admitting nurses.I tell her to calm down or I am going to send her home. She then calms, a bit but runs outside and proceeds to try and call my doctor and find out what the hell is going on.
They do not have a bed for me so I have to wait in the lobby, and when people there find out I have appendicitis(sp?) they are like began bitching to the nurses that I need a room ahead of them... now this was a surprise to me as some of them had been there for a long time, one guy had been waiting for over 2 hours.
I finally get a room, and they begin to check me out. I get a cool male nurse who tries to make jokes about my nipple rings and such to keep me entertained. I am perfectly calm and play along. Now I have had no pain meds at this point yet, and am in A LOT of pain. After the doctor comes in and is septic about me having appendicitis, I explain I have the c-t scans and he then takes off and has the resident radiologist take a look at them, and comes back in and apologizes. Apparently the person who had called him from my doctors office was quite rude and set him in a bad mood. He then proceeds to tell me why he was skeptical, I apologize and explain that I was told they had a bed waiting for me and the whole story... yet AGAIN.
They give me some antibiotics and pain meds and take me to the surgery waiting room, I have to wait for the surgeon to come in. after what seems forever, which is actually about 40 mins the surgeon arrives and I am at that point very under the influence of the meds. I slur my words trying to explain the story AGAIN.. *sigh*
The next thing I know I am waking up in my room in quite a bit of pain, it is not across the whole stomach area, so I assume the surgery is done, take a look and see the bandage. I feel a bit of relief but wish for more pain meds. After about an hour or so, a nurse comes in and tells me about the morphine self administering button, I quickly administer some and feel a dulling of the pain.
Sadee show up around 7 am and we play cards and watch TV wait for the doctor. They take me off the IV drugs and give me some percosets. Let me tell you it is a pain in the rear to not be able to urinate on command, I had the nurses very worried until I finally told them I wanted to go into the bathroom. I was warned if I didn't go within the next ten mins, I would get a catheter. Now I in no way wanted a tube up my penis, so I in much pain hobbled to the bathroom.
Ok now nurses satisfied that I was not leaking my bladder into my body let me know that I now just had to wait for the doctor, much more antibiotics and a some horrible liquid diet, the doctor arrives around 2 PM. He allows me to go home and give me even more antibiotics to take,
Sadee runs to pick them up, I have percosets every 4 hours until I feel no pain as they want me up and about as much as I can, antibiotics 1 3 times a day for 3 days, and 1 a day for 3 days, now this seems normal, what I am bitching about is the cost. one of the antibiotics was $28.00 after my insurance. Holy Shit! and when I found out that was for 3 pills, I Thank everything holy, and a few not so holy that I have insurance. $10 a pill wow.
Well I still have to call work Monday and get them to approve a cashing out of my vacation pay so I can be able pay my bills.
Well that pretty much all the story for now. Sorry it was a book, for those of you who read this, I am truly sorry you felt that need.
Be well my friends.