4:15am Awake in great pain, and feeling sick to my stomach. Walk to the bathroom because I feel my stomach/throat/mouth may need to use the toilet. I walk 2 ft, knees buckle, and I pass out.
4:17 am. pee.
4:20 sit up/sleep in bed
4:25 get a strong conviction to go to the Dr./ER because I have appendicitis. My stomach has been hurting for the past 2 days but not this bad. That thought is the only thing that convinced me to go to the Dr. I mean who wants to sit in an ER?
4:30 find phone and call dr's office to find out they don't open until 8:30am. Make plans to be there promptly at 8am.
4:30-6:30. Wait to call people because I don't want to wake them up.
6:30am call mother. no answer.
6:45am call Sister who had appendicitis, no answer
7am call mother again. no answer. call house phone. no answer. call house phone AGAIN. no answer.
7:10am call Jade. SURPRISE! NO ANSWER!
7:11am wonder if I live in a twilight zone and if everyone is dead rendering them unable to answer their phones.
7:12-7:45 pretend to be interested about whatever is on TV while I am in unbearable pain.
7:45 decide it is early enough to head to dr's
8am go to dr's office, pee in a cup, be tested for h-pylori, and wait a lot. am given STAT orders to go get bloodwork done and have two types of CT scans done.
10am head to get the CT scans done. Am told that I have free floating fluid on the right side of my body which is probably causing the pain. Two different types of ultrasounds are ordered.
11:20 head across the street to st. marks only to find out that they don't accept united health care.
11:40 am. head to imc hospital, who DOES accept united.
11:50 get a call from dr. saying that imc's ultrasound machine is broken and i have to still get my bloodwork done but i will have to go somewhere else for a ct scan.
11:55 arrive at the wrong building and am redirected to the right building
12:05 arrive at lab. someone else checks me in because of my incredible pain, i spaze out in seizures while being checked in but assure the lady im fine. (it feels like someone stabbed me 12 times in the stomach when i freaked out)
12:20 have bloodwork drawn. nurse refuses to let me walk out and wheels me out and has someone else wheel me out to my car.
12:45 arrive as TOSH to have the ultrasound done.
1pm meet sonographer
1pm-3:00pm have three different ultrasounds done. I will spare you the details... the good news... im not pregnant. well gee... I coulda told you that. The bad news? Confirmed that I have lots of fluid in my stomach but we still don't know why.
