5 things you don't like to hear in the hospital....

All things I've heard in the past 36 hours that I'd wish doctors hadn't told me....

"Oh, I was digging for a vein, but I guess that was a nerve or a tendon"
Ya think?!

"I don't really know what that is"as she pointed to a spot on the ultrasound.
Grrreat....

"NPO" aka nothing by mouth...no food, no drink, no water
Are you people even remotely aware how much I enjoy food?!

"Well...the CT scan was kinda ambiguous, so we don't really know what's wrong"

"I'd like to keep you here overnight and do all the tests we did today tomorrow."
You're friggin kidding me right?


It's been quite the roller coaster ride here....I kind of feel like I'm on an episode of "House"...you know, where someone comes in with symptoms of Appendicitis, but it's never Appendicitis on "House" that's just not interesting enough.

Thursday night I had familiar pains of an Ovarian Cyst rupturing....you know, where your lower abdomen feels like knifes and you can't get out of the fetal position all evening and night? I was really annoyed because I'm on the pill so that I DON'T get cysts. Blerg.

So...all night that night and the next morning the pain got worse, not better, like usual. It began to radiate to my entire abdomen and it hurt even to the touch. So I went into see a midwife and she did an Ultrasound so check things out. She couldn't see a cyst, as expected, since once they rupture there's usually just fluid in the pelvic cavity. She was very concerned with my pain level and felt it was Appendicitis. So she sent me to the ER. Holy not fun.

Can I just say that ER care sucks compared to all other health care I've ever experienced? They performed a CT scan and came back not really knowing anything (insert annoyed sigh here).

They threw around the option of Diverticulitis and Appendicitis, but both those options didn't show on the scan as very possible. They saw a 3cm avoid, or oval shaped pocket thing right near my colon and uterus. The avoid is an abscess, generally caused by infection....how it got there? Not a clue.

So, I've been being treated with IV antibiotics and pain meds, but I have to sit here till tomorrow and repeat an ultrasound to see if the abscess is gone. If so, yippee, I'm out. If it is still there, and encapsulated itself, they'll drain it with a very large needle (sounds fun eh?)

So here's hoping that the meds all work and in the morning I'm abscess free and more pain free so I can go home. This whole hospital thing is lame.

That about sums up my weekend thus far. Oh and Addie is thankfully at my in-laws having fun. That is a huge stress relief. Oh, and she's sick with the croup. Yep, that's right....sharp rocks at the bottom? Bring it on.