Timeline:
Wednesday: I had a wonderful afternoon of making warenka ("empties")with Aiden. I made the dough, rolled it out and let Aiden do the cutting. So we proceed to fill our empty...no pun intended... bellies. We are so full we literally roll off our chairs after this very fat-filled mennonite meal. Then it starts......the belly ache from hell. I wasn't sure whether to throw up or drink water. So I did both.
I then put the kids to bed as the pain is flaring EVEN more and radiating down my right abdominal area. All I can think of is all that white flour and heavy cream I ingested from dinner so I blame it on that.
Now I am trying to watch TV, but now the pain is finding it's way to my lower back. It was up there with labour pains.......I did not need to relive THAT!@!
So I take some tums and go to bed.
Thursday 1:30AM:
Loads of pain.........
Thursday 2:15AM
Loads of pain..........
Thursday 3:10 am
I get up and look up Appendicitis on GOOGLE.
3:30AM, GOOGLE was a bad idea, I should never self-diagnose myself :-)
Eventually, my body passes out from exhaustion and I can finally sleep for a few hours.
Thursday 9:00 AM:
Call my "sister" Denise and she suggests before I actually go to the clinic to call the BC Nurses line to tell them my symptoms. I do, I cry, I call Dawn's boys to look after my kids so I can go to the clinic.
I wait for what seems a lifetime at the clinic and the doctor says, it's one of 2 things....Appendicitis or an ovarian cyst. He said if it is appendicitis to go to the Kelowna General ER so if it ruptures I can have it happen there in the next 6-8 hours while I wait for a doctor. I laugh. I cry, I call Jay to come home.
Jay drops me off at the ER at 12:30 pm. I register and WAIT........and wait, and wait, and wait....oh wait.....now a blood test........and wait...............and wait. You get it by now.
Eventually Jay and the kids come to visit me at 4:30 and I am still keeping the same chair warm as I was at 12:30. They are eating some yummy ice cream treats in front of me when I haven't eaten all day except for a coffee and a piece of gum. And to top it off, I brought a boring book!!!
So, I get in to see the doc and I plead with him to let me go home cause it's just PMS!!! No such luck. I wait again in a different room and then I got a CT scan.
So my results of the scan say my appendix is fine but my body says otherwise.
Thursday 8:15pm..............long day of waiting in the ER and chose to go home instead of staying for observation. I probably would have been laying in the brightly lit, chaotic hallway anyway. So home in my cozy bed I will go.
Jay pulls up and before he can say anything I say head to the nearest drive thru. 2 DQ cheeseburgers and a strawberry shake later I am quite satisfied.
The house is not as bad as I thought it would be but let me tell you what Friday brings.................
Friday....the day is OK. We sleep in and have a lazy morning of crepes and coffee. A nap or 2 and then I decided to go to Extra foods to do some much needed shopping. I grad myself a honey latte from Starbucks (my new fave) and head to the store.
Got my 200 dollars worth of groceries and earned myself a 25 dollar gift card.....ya hoo!!
I get home and the dog looks like she got into something that was STICKY..........I find out that her and Sarah found a bottle of Rogers Golden Syrup and decided to play hair salon with it. Jay did try to wipe up any of the evidence but has seriously failed. On the floor, boots, leather chair, couch, ottoman, it was EVERYWHERE!! I guess that is why I don't go out much. Bad day!! Our marriage is still intact and we love to laugh at situations like this (when they are OVER). My life is such a blessing even though I can't go out anymore!!
Wednesday: I had a wonderful afternoon of making warenka ("empties")with Aiden. I made the dough, rolled it out and let Aiden do the cutting. So we proceed to fill our empty...no pun intended... bellies. We are so full we literally roll off our chairs after this very fat-filled mennonite meal. Then it starts......the belly ache from hell. I wasn't sure whether to throw up or drink water. So I did both.
I then put the kids to bed as the pain is flaring EVEN more and radiating down my right abdominal area. All I can think of is all that white flour and heavy cream I ingested from dinner so I blame it on that.
Now I am trying to watch TV, but now the pain is finding it's way to my lower back. It was up there with labour pains.......I did not need to relive THAT!@!
So I take some tums and go to bed.
Thursday 1:30AM:
Loads of pain.........
Thursday 2:15AM
Loads of pain..........
Thursday 3:10 am
I get up and look up Appendicitis on GOOGLE.
3:30AM, GOOGLE was a bad idea, I should never self-diagnose myself :-)
Eventually, my body passes out from exhaustion and I can finally sleep for a few hours.
Thursday 9:00 AM:
Call my "sister" Denise and she suggests before I actually go to the clinic to call the BC Nurses line to tell them my symptoms. I do, I cry, I call Dawn's boys to look after my kids so I can go to the clinic.
I wait for what seems a lifetime at the clinic and the doctor says, it's one of 2 things....Appendicitis or an ovarian cyst. He said if it is appendicitis to go to the Kelowna General ER so if it ruptures I can have it happen there in the next 6-8 hours while I wait for a doctor. I laugh. I cry, I call Jay to come home.
Jay drops me off at the ER at 12:30 pm. I register and WAIT........and wait, and wait, and wait....oh wait.....now a blood test........and wait...............and wait. You get it by now.
Eventually Jay and the kids come to visit me at 4:30 and I am still keeping the same chair warm as I was at 12:30. They are eating some yummy ice cream treats in front of me when I haven't eaten all day except for a coffee and a piece of gum. And to top it off, I brought a boring book!!!
So, I get in to see the doc and I plead with him to let me go home cause it's just PMS!!! No such luck. I wait again in a different room and then I got a CT scan.
So my results of the scan say my appendix is fine but my body says otherwise.
Thursday 8:15pm..............long day of waiting in the ER and chose to go home instead of staying for observation. I probably would have been laying in the brightly lit, chaotic hallway anyway. So home in my cozy bed I will go.
Jay pulls up and before he can say anything I say head to the nearest drive thru. 2 DQ cheeseburgers and a strawberry shake later I am quite satisfied.
The house is not as bad as I thought it would be but let me tell you what Friday brings.................
Friday....the day is OK. We sleep in and have a lazy morning of crepes and coffee. A nap or 2 and then I decided to go to Extra foods to do some much needed shopping. I grad myself a honey latte from Starbucks (my new fave) and head to the store.
Got my 200 dollars worth of groceries and earned myself a 25 dollar gift card.....ya hoo!!
I get home and the dog looks like she got into something that was STICKY..........I find out that her and Sarah found a bottle of Rogers Golden Syrup and decided to play hair salon with it. Jay did try to wipe up any of the evidence but has seriously failed. On the floor, boots, leather chair, couch, ottoman, it was EVERYWHERE!! I guess that is why I don't go out much. Bad day!! Our marriage is still intact and we love to laugh at situations like this (when they are OVER). My life is such a blessing even though I can't go out anymore!!
3 comments:
hey, mel..
i didnt get to talk to you this morning.. ar you still in pain?
what did the docs say? are you okay?
maybe I will facebook you to find out.. happy easter...
talk to you soon
karleigh
Love it that you can laugh about it all. :)
AA
Mel, I've started to blog myself and I'm totally enjoying reading yours! I've laughed out loud many times. An example would be that after your horrible stomach pains, waiting at the clinic and hospital you head to DQ for burgers! Too funny! Hope your feeling good!
Oh and I'll definatley call before we ever come to B.C.
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