Update on Back and Grocer

Spent the day in the ER. Back pain and abdominal pain scared me enough to go! I thought it could be a kidney infection or something easily cured with an antibiotic...It was the worst. The nurse had the worst attitude I have ever seen. The doctor was not very comforting. First they took blood and gave me an IV. Gave me pain med called Diloted (sp?) and it gave me a horrible headache as it began to work. Felt like my head was in a vice. The headache started to go away and the pain subsided. But, I think it was an allergic reaction. After I am nice and mellow, they want me to pee in a cup. No assistance to or from the bathroom, I could have easily fallen. They wanted to make sure I was not preggers...

I get back in the room and somebody came to take me for a catscan. I told him they were supposed to make sure I was not pregnant first. He told me they did that. I told him I just brought in the cup...He said they checked thru my blood. So, that was good news...Holding my breath four times til I thought I would explode was no fun during the scan though.

I get back to my room, and I have a drug addict room mate in next to me behind the curtain. Coughing up who knows what. Finally three hours of listening to him, in an unairconditioned room, with the sides up so I could not move, the pain med had worn off and I wanted to scream. I was so hot and in so much pain and nobody came to see me once. The doctor came in to talk to him and finally I got her attention. I had been there since 9AM and it was 1:45. I asked if I could go. She said the radiologist was looking over my catscan again because he thought I may have a kidney stone...She promised to come back in ten minutes. She came back in thirty. Told me that there is a cyst on my right ovary and that the pain was from Siaticia (sp?) and radiating around to the front. Finally gives me prescriptions for meds and leaves. I was crying when trying to get out of bed by myself and get dressed. The nurse came in and I asked for some water. None had been offered all day. She gives me lukewarm tapwater. I took a sip and put it down. Walked out and waited for my very kind neighbor to come pick me up. Dropped of the script, picked up Zoe and came home.

Just a horrible day, still in pain. The doctor told me to follow up with my doctor or one she suggested. I disliked her so much that I would never use somebody she recommended. I told her I had taken Vicodin three times and mentioned six pills and she thought she caught me in a lie...After talking to the guy next door I suppose I can somewhat understand where she was coming from. But, I told her I took two pills three times and stopped. I felt like the Vicodin was masking the pain. She said that is what it is supposed to do and I should have kept taking it...I got no points for putting ice on my back for days and using meds wisely. Instead she made me feel bad for coming there in the first place!

I just got a call from Vons.com and they guy said he had my food from yesterday...I asked how that happened and he said they filled my order and were bringing it to me...Good news since I had not made it to the store today. Don't know why this happened, but I will be glad to get the groceries I had ordered! Dinner tonight, yeah....