Hello again - - well, i'm home. I did end up going to the ER...the pain (as you read in my pp) was just too much to bear and so my cousin took me over around
4am while my husband waited until the kids got up to take them to daycare. He met me there later and when he saw how bad i looked, that was it...he just teared up. He's not an emotional guy at all - but seeing me in such unrelenting excruciating pain was too much i guess.
Long story short, i went to the same ER where my surgeon is affiliated and that turned out to be the best decision (depsite having a hospital 2 minutes from my house). All of my pre-admission test and xrays as well as all of my imaging (CT, MRI, xrays, surgeon consults, etc) were all available to them. My bp which is generally very low was a whopping 165/102 and my HR was 135 - all from the pain. Pain does extraordinary things to your body, especially your vitals. So anyway, they gave me 2 percocets (god knows why) which did absolutely nothing - - after some more waiting and seeing and talking to 100 dr's, they gave me a shot of dilauded...15 minutes later i could actully shift my weight slightly without stabbing pains. It did wonders for the intesity and i could just feel my insides calming down as a result. That kind of pain just rattles you to your core. And it's exhausting! I will see my surgeon this Monday (he was away and returns from vacation tomorrow) - but the ortho residents and the on-call doc all assured me that Dr. Clements would be made away of just how bad this situation was for me. I couldn't lift my legs, bend my kness or even stand up. Scary. But now i can...i was discharged after about 7 hours and i feel a LOT better right now. Not fixed or even "good" - but better than i did 24 hours ago...which at this point, i'll take. I have meds to get me thru til Monday when i see the surgeon and it was discussed that maybe my surgery needs to be pushed up a week or so...we'll see..at this point, i just want it over...like i said, if EVER there was a doubt in my mind, it's no longer there. This episode confirmed for me that i most certainly AM doing the right thing by having these surgeries.
Thanks all of you for your support and encouragement. Its times like this when you literally feel alone because no one knows what you're going thru...but i always have all of you and for that, my many thanks. I'll keep you posted.
Michele
4am while my husband waited until the kids got up to take them to daycare. He met me there later and when he saw how bad i looked, that was it...he just teared up. He's not an emotional guy at all - but seeing me in such unrelenting excruciating pain was too much i guess.
Long story short, i went to the same ER where my surgeon is affiliated and that turned out to be the best decision (depsite having a hospital 2 minutes from my house). All of my pre-admission test and xrays as well as all of my imaging (CT, MRI, xrays, surgeon consults, etc) were all available to them. My bp which is generally very low was a whopping 165/102 and my HR was 135 - all from the pain. Pain does extraordinary things to your body, especially your vitals. So anyway, they gave me 2 percocets (god knows why) which did absolutely nothing - - after some more waiting and seeing and talking to 100 dr's, they gave me a shot of dilauded...15 minutes later i could actully shift my weight slightly without stabbing pains. It did wonders for the intesity and i could just feel my insides calming down as a result. That kind of pain just rattles you to your core. And it's exhausting! I will see my surgeon this Monday (he was away and returns from vacation tomorrow) - but the ortho residents and the on-call doc all assured me that Dr. Clements would be made away of just how bad this situation was for me. I couldn't lift my legs, bend my kness or even stand up. Scary. But now i can...i was discharged after about 7 hours and i feel a LOT better right now. Not fixed or even "good" - but better than i did 24 hours ago...which at this point, i'll take. I have meds to get me thru til Monday when i see the surgeon and it was discussed that maybe my surgery needs to be pushed up a week or so...we'll see..at this point, i just want it over...like i said, if EVER there was a doubt in my mind, it's no longer there. This episode confirmed for me that i most certainly AM doing the right thing by having these surgeries.
Thanks all of you for your support and encouragement. Its times like this when you literally feel alone because no one knows what you're going thru...but i always have all of you and for that, my many thanks. I'll keep you posted.
Michele
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