Well, I doubt I mentioned this, but back in October I was in the hospital. It was the last Tuesday in October when I started to have difficulty breathing. It sucked like all hell cuz if I walked about 20 feet, it felt like I ran about 5 miles. It was not good. Especially at work. It bit hard core ass. Well, I suffered thru-out the week. On the 1st, my best friend/co-worker, Sara, who I call my lil sis, was over at my house. We were having fun chattin with people on the net. (This is also the night I started talkin to the guy I love with all my heart) Well, the eara around my kidney was hurtin. I took something for pain and went to the volleygame that night. At the game, my best guy friend, Jeremiah, calls me up. He wants to know if I'd go haulin cows with him that night. I said I would and I went with him after the game. By then, I started having trouble taking a deep breath. Not good. We got back around 5:15 in the morning. He dropped me off 15 minutes from my house (by foot). I walked home. By now I was taking short little gasps for breath. I was crying, i was doubled over in pain and my whole right side of my body hand a sharp pain. I was an overall mess. I told my brother to go wake up my parents. Thank ~*~GOD~*~ for him being up at that time, because I would have had a difficult time walking up the stairs to their room. My mom looked me over (she's a former EMT-Intermeadiate and my dad is a EMT-Basic). Well, she put on her shoes and off to the ER we went. YIKES! By this time, I had stopped crying, but I was still in a lot of pain. The doctor (who i will mention was HOTT) said i needed a cat scan. Well that about killed me! Not him telling me that, but having to lay on my back. If i layed on my side, I was fine, but if I was on my back, I could barely breathe. Again, not good. Well, they gave me a shot of demerol and 2 shots of morphean. WOW! Was I happy! :) hehe. Anywho, at 7ish or so I had my cat scan. With me not able to breathe all that great, and they having to hold my breath like 4 times for 15 seconds, it took FOREVER! So after that, they said that they couldn't see the lower lobe of my lung. Well, I got to take a short nap, when I woke up, two Sheriffs Office deputies were there. (Shaun and Shaun...Thanx you two are the best!) Then at about 10 or so, the doctor came in and said I need to go to billings. BLEH! Not cool at all! So, I got my first ride in an ambulance. kinda fun. My mom and dad followed behind. The funny/ironic thing about me being transported in the ambulance, is that my dad had to work for the ambulance that day. Well, he would have to of been the drive, but before the doctor came in and said i needed to go to Billings, my dad's boss said that he could have the day off. Well, we get to Billings about 45 minutes later and my cousin Mat, is the first person there. He was waiting for us to get there. My parents didn't see him, but he said he was there when the ambulance pulled up. A few hours later and another cat scan later, they came to the conclusion that I had a massive blood clot, that covered the whole lower lobe of my right lung! WOW! What they didn't tell us, but was in the CAT scan report was that I had another small clot on my left lung. All of this happened with my birth control pills. What was funny tho, was while I was waiting for the doctor to tell me some news, my mom was with me in the ER room still, and they hooked me up to the heart monitor. >:) HEHE! I started movin around really fast and i started hittin the lil sticky things, and it made all the squiggly lines freak out really bad. The doctor and the nurses were gettin mighty pissed at me! MY MOM TOLD ME TO DO IT! Anywho, they take me to my room which was the cancer unit of the hospital. Well, everyone kept bringin me flowers, so they gave me a room that was not in that unit. :) YAY! That first night, they stuck me on my blood thinners and a heprin drip. Mom stayed awake half the night to make sure I was still breathing. paranoyed but still a motherly thing. Time passed on it was the same thing everyday.
- Get blood drawn every 6 hours
- talk with the doctor and the nurses
- take a nap
- eat 3 square meals a day (i gained 10-15 pounds while in the hospital because of this and #5)
- stay in bed, couldn't walk around, only time i could was to go to the bath room
- watch movies and tv all damn day!
- sleep
- repeat
Well, Thursday evening, Brian came and saw me, and then a few minutes after he left, my one and only came in! Of course at the time we weren't dating, we were just friends. Then friday afternoon i got released with teddy bears flowers and gift basket galore!
NOTE: I shortened this a bit, because I am hella tired and I wanna go to bed! NIGHT!
