What a week. Monday and Tuesday were pretty un-eventful. Monday Night I broke my jig-saw, but that's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
Wednesday Morining, my wife woke up with a bit of a stomach ache, and took a double dose of Pepto, it didn't help much, but she soldiered on and took the kids to the gym where she ran only 2.5 of the 4-5 miles that she usually covers on Monday Wednesday and friday, she is pretty tough.
She got home, put the kids in their places, and lay down on the couch, and called me to let me know her stomach was really bothering her. I was in class and was unable to come home for just a stomach ache. She was unable to watch the kids at this point so she called her mother.
A few minutes later, she calls back saying that I need to take her either to an urgent care, or the ER. this got my attention, and I packed up my stuff and rushed home. My wife usually has to be forced against her will to go to the Dr.'s office, let alone an urgent care, or the ER. I knew something was up at this point.
I get home, and based on how much pain she is in, I forgo the urgent care place, and take her straight to the ER in the university area in Charlotte.
They get her in very quickly, she was in triage within 5 minutes of being in there. He was pretty nice, and quickly got her into an exam room.
In the exam room the got Julia onto an exam bed, and started checking her out.
They quickly came up with 2 different diagnosis
1. Ectopic Pregnancy, which is what had us in the ER 5 years ago almost to the day
or
2. Appendicitis.
they ran the tests and did a CT, which showed her appendix has swollen to about the size of a cigar.
it is never a good thing when you are able to surprise anyone in the ER... including the surgeon who is doing your surgery
we entered the hospital at around 2pm and she was on the table by 8:30pm
by 9:30 I was having a chat with the surgeon who was declaring how easy Julia was to operate on due to her fine physical health. unfortunately she was too skinny, his words not mine, to be a candidate for laproscopic surgery, instead she now has a 4cm long J shaped scar on her abdomen.
we leave the hospital the next day at 2pm, and head home. Julia is in vicodyn land at this point.
That night, when she goes to lay down her neck veins are deistended painfully, and her head feels like it's going to pop. A couple of calls to the surgeons office, and we end up in the ER again the next day ( friday) to have her checked for a pulmonary embolism ( blood clot in the lungs) which is one of the things that can cause distended vessels in the neck
well 2 CT's later, nothing.
As we are walking out the door one of the nurses, suggests to us to have her drink more fluids that usual to flush the contrast medium they gave her for the CT's that she has had because many people are allergic to it, and that can be a possible reason for her head congestion and jugular vein distension...
it has been a heck of a week, and I just pray that next week will be less interesting.
Wednesday Morining, my wife woke up with a bit of a stomach ache, and took a double dose of Pepto, it didn't help much, but she soldiered on and took the kids to the gym where she ran only 2.5 of the 4-5 miles that she usually covers on Monday Wednesday and friday, she is pretty tough.
She got home, put the kids in their places, and lay down on the couch, and called me to let me know her stomach was really bothering her. I was in class and was unable to come home for just a stomach ache. She was unable to watch the kids at this point so she called her mother.
A few minutes later, she calls back saying that I need to take her either to an urgent care, or the ER. this got my attention, and I packed up my stuff and rushed home. My wife usually has to be forced against her will to go to the Dr.'s office, let alone an urgent care, or the ER. I knew something was up at this point.
I get home, and based on how much pain she is in, I forgo the urgent care place, and take her straight to the ER in the university area in Charlotte.
They get her in very quickly, she was in triage within 5 minutes of being in there. He was pretty nice, and quickly got her into an exam room.
In the exam room the got Julia onto an exam bed, and started checking her out.
They quickly came up with 2 different diagnosis
1. Ectopic Pregnancy, which is what had us in the ER 5 years ago almost to the day
or
2. Appendicitis.
they ran the tests and did a CT, which showed her appendix has swollen to about the size of a cigar.
it is never a good thing when you are able to surprise anyone in the ER... including the surgeon who is doing your surgery
we entered the hospital at around 2pm and she was on the table by 8:30pm
by 9:30 I was having a chat with the surgeon who was declaring how easy Julia was to operate on due to her fine physical health. unfortunately she was too skinny, his words not mine, to be a candidate for laproscopic surgery, instead she now has a 4cm long J shaped scar on her abdomen.
we leave the hospital the next day at 2pm, and head home. Julia is in vicodyn land at this point.
That night, when she goes to lay down her neck veins are deistended painfully, and her head feels like it's going to pop. A couple of calls to the surgeons office, and we end up in the ER again the next day ( friday) to have her checked for a pulmonary embolism ( blood clot in the lungs) which is one of the things that can cause distended vessels in the neck
well 2 CT's later, nothing.
As we are walking out the door one of the nurses, suggests to us to have her drink more fluids that usual to flush the contrast medium they gave her for the CT's that she has had because many people are allergic to it, and that can be a possible reason for her head congestion and jugular vein distension...
it has been a heck of a week, and I just pray that next week will be less interesting.
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