well hello there, wonderful readers. sorry for being an absentee blogger, but i have a good excuse, i swear.
i've been updating people a bit on my twitter, but now it's time for the full story on here for everyone to read!
as you all know, i had some bleeding problems back at the end of january that put me in the hospital for some transfusions. i saved you all from the most gory details back then, but i'm gonna have to hit some of those this time to give y'all the accurate story. brace yourself.
back in january i got an ultrasound that showed a cyst on my left ovary. it wasn't causing any pain, so we didn't worry too much about it, and we just handled the loss of blood instead. but this last week i started cramping so bad that i couldn't fall asleep through all of sunday night. i also started losing blood again, so i went to see the doctor. the cramping had subsided a bit by the middle of the week, but my doctor wanted to do some more blood tests and another ultrasound, to check the status of the cyst and everything.
i gave more blood samples on tuesday, got the ultrasound on wednesday (ladies....here's a word you never want to hear in regards to a thick metal stick with gel on one end....transvaginal *shudder*), and then i waited to hear the results of those from my doctor.
only then thursday came, and with it, the worst pain i've ever felt in my life.
it felt like it started in my lower back/right hip area, but it soon spread to the front, up my entire right side, and all the way down to my right knee. i thought that all the cramping had maybe caused me to pinch a nerve or something, so i thought that if i could just get through thursday night i could go to the chiropractor and get my back adjusted first thing friday morning.
well "getting through" thursday night was....awful. i spent 8 1/2 hours rolling around in bed, walking around my apartment, stretching in every possible position, holding a heat pad on the entire right side of my body...etc. i gave up trying to sleep at about 4 a.m. and i watched several episodes of one tree hill and ate dry cinnamon life instead. i was measuring time by how long until the chiropractor's office opened.
to summarize this next bit.....the chiropractor didn't help at all. i think he made it worse, actually. two friends came again to give me a blessing, but no matter what i did, the pain just kept getting worse and worse. brittney finally drove me to urgent care where they......didn't do much tbh. they thought i might have appenndicitis so they sent me straight to the ER. by this point the pain was so horrible that i was barely conscious. i had been sobbing for hours, and all i wanted was a tiny bit of relief.
brittney helped me check into the ER, and as i laid on a bed getting steadily worse, she saved me and went to find someone to take care of me. i barely remember the iv going in and the nurse asking me a bunch of questions. i just remember the morphine taking effect and suddenly being able to breathe without the pain. and then i realized that my feet were hanging off the edge of that tiny ER bed, and how on earth would anyone taller be able to fit in it?! and then i got the hiccups that would never go away, and brittney and i laughed like crazy.
well, to make a long story a tiny bit shorter....i got another ultrasound, lots more morphine, and the on-call OB/GYN finally came to tell me that surgery was basically inevitable. what they thought was a cyst was actually my right fallopian tube, all twisted up, enlarged, and full of blood. my roommates stayed with me till almost midnight when my mom showed up to take care of me. she left right after school got out and flew into salt lake--halle-freakin'-lujah.
my new bed in my overnight room was big enough for two!
i stayed friday night at the hospital so they could keep the pain under control, and saturday morning i went into surgery. they weren't sure what they were going to do once they got a better look at me, but they ended up making a slightly larger incision and removing my right fallopian tube completely. but don't worry guys, even with just one fallopian tube, i'm still 95% fertile! (thinking about changing my twitter bio to include that fact tbh.)
i stayed most of the day in the hospital, trying to stay awake and trying to manage my pain with just oral medication and not my (beloved) morphine drip. i left the hospital at about 9 p.m. saturday and went to stay at the hotel with my mom for the night.
and i'm still alive!
it basically feels like i did a really really intense ab workout.
i'm taking percocet and ibuprofen for the pain, and just resting a lot. and tonight my mom is making me meatloaf and potatoes and broccoli. :)
thank you all for the sweet messages and tweets and texts! i'm getting better and definitely feeling the love from you all.
oh, and somehow i managed to save this picture on my phone during my medicated stupor:
it's possibly the most confusing part of this whole thing.
as you all know, i had some bleeding problems back at the end of january that put me in the hospital for some transfusions. i saved you all from the most gory details back then, but i'm gonna have to hit some of those this time to give y'all the accurate story. brace yourself.
back in january i got an ultrasound that showed a cyst on my left ovary. it wasn't causing any pain, so we didn't worry too much about it, and we just handled the loss of blood instead. but this last week i started cramping so bad that i couldn't fall asleep through all of sunday night. i also started losing blood again, so i went to see the doctor. the cramping had subsided a bit by the middle of the week, but my doctor wanted to do some more blood tests and another ultrasound, to check the status of the cyst and everything.
i gave more blood samples on tuesday, got the ultrasound on wednesday (ladies....here's a word you never want to hear in regards to a thick metal stick with gel on one end....transvaginal *shudder*), and then i waited to hear the results of those from my doctor.
only then thursday came, and with it, the worst pain i've ever felt in my life.
it felt like it started in my lower back/right hip area, but it soon spread to the front, up my entire right side, and all the way down to my right knee. i thought that all the cramping had maybe caused me to pinch a nerve or something, so i thought that if i could just get through thursday night i could go to the chiropractor and get my back adjusted first thing friday morning.
well "getting through" thursday night was....awful. i spent 8 1/2 hours rolling around in bed, walking around my apartment, stretching in every possible position, holding a heat pad on the entire right side of my body...etc. i gave up trying to sleep at about 4 a.m. and i watched several episodes of one tree hill and ate dry cinnamon life instead. i was measuring time by how long until the chiropractor's office opened.
to summarize this next bit.....the chiropractor didn't help at all. i think he made it worse, actually. two friends came again to give me a blessing, but no matter what i did, the pain just kept getting worse and worse. brittney finally drove me to urgent care where they......didn't do much tbh. they thought i might have appenndicitis so they sent me straight to the ER. by this point the pain was so horrible that i was barely conscious. i had been sobbing for hours, and all i wanted was a tiny bit of relief.
brittney helped me check into the ER, and as i laid on a bed getting steadily worse, she saved me and went to find someone to take care of me. i barely remember the iv going in and the nurse asking me a bunch of questions. i just remember the morphine taking effect and suddenly being able to breathe without the pain. and then i realized that my feet were hanging off the edge of that tiny ER bed, and how on earth would anyone taller be able to fit in it?! and then i got the hiccups that would never go away, and brittney and i laughed like crazy.
well, to make a long story a tiny bit shorter....i got another ultrasound, lots more morphine, and the on-call OB/GYN finally came to tell me that surgery was basically inevitable. what they thought was a cyst was actually my right fallopian tube, all twisted up, enlarged, and full of blood. my roommates stayed with me till almost midnight when my mom showed up to take care of me. she left right after school got out and flew into salt lake--halle-freakin'-lujah.
my new bed in my overnight room was big enough for two!
i stayed friday night at the hospital so they could keep the pain under control, and saturday morning i went into surgery. they weren't sure what they were going to do once they got a better look at me, but they ended up making a slightly larger incision and removing my right fallopian tube completely. but don't worry guys, even with just one fallopian tube, i'm still 95% fertile! (thinking about changing my twitter bio to include that fact tbh.)
i stayed most of the day in the hospital, trying to stay awake and trying to manage my pain with just oral medication and not my (beloved) morphine drip. i left the hospital at about 9 p.m. saturday and went to stay at the hotel with my mom for the night.
and i'm still alive!
it basically feels like i did a really really intense ab workout.
i'm taking percocet and ibuprofen for the pain, and just resting a lot. and tonight my mom is making me meatloaf and potatoes and broccoli. :)
thank you all for the sweet messages and tweets and texts! i'm getting better and definitely feeling the love from you all.
oh, and somehow i managed to save this picture on my phone during my medicated stupor:
it's possibly the most confusing part of this whole thing.
Well I am so glad that your not in pain anymore!! Hope for a speedy recovery!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm already doing so much better!
DeleteOk, now I know. And that final picture still has me laughing. I did similar things while on the good stuff. I didn't like the feeling but I was a really great texter to random numbers I had on my phone...I hope you're starting to feel better!
ReplyDeleteHaha luckily I didn't really too anything crazy. I just couldn't keep my eyes open mostly! But I'm sure glad I'm feeling better now too!
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