WTF New Pain & More Tests
Ok so it wasn’t IBS. Just like when I got appendicitis last September I go through denial not wanting to believed its not just “tummy trouble” and something worse is happening to me.
Over the weekend the pain kept getting worse and was localized to my right side kind of under my ribs and would sometimes radiate to the middle of my abdomen and up my ribs to the shoulder and arm. I have a fever and I was/am having some breathing problems. By Sunday I couldn’t lay down at all because the pain was so excruciating, after taking a vicodin I slept maybe 3 hours while sitting in a chair. I called my doctor office at 7am Monday and begged the receptionist to fit me in, she said she didn’t think she could but would call me back when the doctor arrived. Lucky for me someone cancelled there appointment so I got in at 9am. Mom drove me.
After my examination Dr. Nemeth said it could be a gallbladder infection or something more serious to do with my Liver or fluid build up around the lung. She needed to do tests.
I had the paperwork with me to get blood drawn for test my hematologist wanted that day Dr, Nemeth added a few more tests to it, wrote STAT on it twice with her fax # and wrote up an order for me to get a chest x-ray at Woodland Center too. She also gave me the paper work for an abdominal ultrasound but that had to be a scheduled appointment. We left from her office and immediately got the Woodland tests done.
Later that day Dr. Nemeth’s receptionist called me and told me I had to be at the Livingston Hospital at 8:15 am the next day (Tuesday) for my ultrasound and I had to call the number on the back of my paperwork to pre-register. Which I did, but apparently the person entering the data in the computer at the hospital doesn’t keep track of the days of the week very well.
When I arrived at the check in desk at 8am the Hospital receptionist informed me that the pre-register person scheduled me for Wednesday. But all my paperwork said Tuesday and I was already there so I was put on the “walk in” list. I had to wait an hour but at least it got done.
When I got home Mom helped Dad pack up the rental Mini Van of stuff from the Garage of “Ambers” house, packed up there cloths, cooler and such and left on a road trip. 2 weeks ago? Dad had forgotten to tell the movers to take the stuff in the garage. So the Parental are driving it down to them (Amber, Paul & lil Aaron). Paul is now stationed in North Carolina at Fort Bragg; they were commissioned on base housing. Though Amber and Aaron won’t get much time with Paul he is supposedly being shipped over seas to the mid east in September.
After my Parents left I saw the answering machine was blinking there was a message from the hospital telling me I didn’t have a referral for my Wednesday ultrasound and they notified my doctor to send one but if they did not get it I would have to sign a waiver saying I would pay the cost. I didn’t call the hospital back, because I have problems working the answering machine and couldn’t get it to repeat the message so I couldn’t get the number LOL, but I figured they should be able to look at their computer, the referral forms I dropped off Tuesday and realize I already had the ultrasound. But I did call my doctor office, inform them about the mix-up, that I already had the ultrasound and no extra referral was needed.
Then Rob came out to see me. This is his first time ever driving out here. Only other times he’s been here I have picked him up and drove. At first he couldn’t come out here because his car died. But for the last month he’s had another car, still kind of a Junker but runs ok, he was just nervous about driving because he’s not done “long” distance driving in quite a while? Which I totally understand, 7 months after I had my car accident I bought another car and it took me another 3 months before I would do highway driving. Driving out to see Rob, helped me build up my driving confidence again. Though he will tell you I still get anxious and irritable in heavy traffic and unfamiliar routes, especially if I am PMS-ing. 
LOL
Rob has Tuesday and Wednesday of and is going with me to my Hematologist appointment Wednesday and is just here to try helping me feel better. Having another unknown painful health problem/condition on top of everything else already going on, I’ve been kind of bi-polar, laughing one minute crying the next. Just keep saying to my self WTF, what’s next? At least the pain has lessened some, but I’m still waiting on the results of these tests and the results of the NCV, EMG and MRI from last week.
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