well...monday morning about 1231 am i woke to an excrutiating pain in my abdomen. i had no idea what the pain was. i laid in bed grabbing at my lower abdomen hoping the pain would subside...but to now avail. it increasingly became intolerable...so much that i had to wake dan up in tears clenching at the sheets and wailing in pain. i tried to switch my position in bed - just maybe if i turn on my side the pain would go away, no...it actually got worse... i kept waiting for a break in the pain, but nothing. i knew this wasnt normal nor right. i had once experienced this pain, but not this intense. i gave in and told dan that we needed to head to the er. barely being able to get up, i crept around the room to put some clothes on. dan gathered my purse, his belongings and luthor's belongings. the three of us headed towards the kaiser er. walking to the truck was a task and a half for me. it hurt to walk, it hurt to sit, it hurt to do anything. i was in tears...so bad that i was moaning each time the pain intensified. we get to the er...check in...and finally are called to the back...in like 2 minutes or so. the nurse took my vitals, ordered dan to grab a wheel chair and we were off to module D where they finally parked me in bed 1...the gynecology bed. it was well equipped i must say. the bed was even transformable to a bed with stirrups. the nurse there made me pee in a cup to verify that i was in fact not pregnant...which i wasnt. thank goodness. we then waited for over 2 hours for the ob doctor to see me. this man violated me with a wand in ways i have never been violated before...all to tell me that i would have to wait until 7 am to be violated again. mind you..i was in pain this entire time. i was in pain all over..my head hurt from the lack of sleep, my arm hurt from the IV (the nurse used a BIG IV needle just in case i needed to be rushed into emergency surgery). it was only a quarter to 4 when the doc told me the bad news about staying until the morning, so dan decided to head home to get luthor situated and work situated. he came back around 6 i think. i dont quite remember.
the hustle and bustle of shift changes began happening, so i knew it was closer to 7 and that means i can finally have my formal ultra sound done. one problem...they needed to put a catheter in me...sounds easy right. no its not. it actually hurt. the worse part was when they manually filled my bladder. the feeling was so intense, that i didnt really know which hurt most...the need to pee so bad or the pain in my abdomen. they filled my bladder twice actually. the first time was when we had the go ahead to prep me for the ultrasound...then a call back saying not to prep me because my time switched to 745...there was no way i could bare the pain of needing to pee so bad, so the nurse unclamped me and let the water flow back out...then they filled it again around 745. we headed down stairs to the ultrasound dept. there i waited for another 20 min before the tech came in and did an external ultra sound then again another internal. i tell you this tech was worse that the doc...i dont know what the hell her kept hitting in me, but whatever it was it made me have the urge to shit. i mean, the urge you get when your clenching your asshole so hard it hurts to clench cause you know the shit is knocking on your asshole ready to come out. so not only did i have the urge to shit so bad, i had the urge to pee really bad. not very comfortable. the ultrasound took maybe 45 min to an hour. then i was transported back upstairs to the er...where we waited again...
finally the doc came in and told me i had a 2 inch ovarian cyst and basically prescribed pain meds and stool softener. she noted that if the pain got worse, then i should come back and see her, because they may have to surgically remove it. she also recommend that i do a follow up ultrasound with my regular ob to make sure the size isnt getting any bigger. havent scheduled that visit yet. maybe tomorrow i will at my lunch hour. but i've been taking advantage of the pain meds, but i cant bring myself to taking the stool softener..something just doesnt sound right about taking it.
so...8 hours in the emergency room yielded me a bottle of vicoden, stool softener and ibuprofen not to mention 2 days off work.
note to self...next time the pain happens again, take a 600 mg of ibuprofen and sleep it off.
no wonder why i hate going to the doctors...especially the emergency room. i truly believe that if i was bleeding inside...i would have died at how slow the service was.
