Health
Husband Health Woes…I’m scared
11:00 AM
Rob and I got a hotel room this weekend just for fun.
Last night he went home with a stomach ailment and told me to stay here.
He will be here in a few minutes to pick me up so we can drive to the hospital. He is in agony with stomach pains and I am scared.
I will update when I know more.
7:00 PM
We still don’t know anything. Rob is in the ER as I type this. I came home to give the dog his pill. We know that he’ll be there at least until nine because they gave him some stuff to drink for his catscan and they told him it takes two hours to get through his system…that is if he can keep it down. He threw up a tiny bit before I left and they gave him something in his IV to “relax” him. When I left he had just finished the drink they gave him and was going to lay down for a nap(the nurse let him shut out the lights in his little curtained-off area). He is still in tons of pain. He said he has never felt pain like this in his life.
It was everything I could do not to fall apart tonight and I’m not saying that I won’t. I am trying to be strong because the last thing Rob needs right now is a weepy wife but it is killing me to watch him go through this. And knowing there is NOTHING I can do.
Right now he is SOOOO frustrated that the ER is taking so long to get to the root of the problem. He keeps complaining about how they really already know what is wrong with him they are just milking it for the insurance money. All he wants to do is come home.
I just hope he keeps that drink down. They told him there was only one other way to get it into his system and it’s not thru an IV!! Yikes!
I feel so bad. I wish there was something I could do to make him feel better. He is in so much pain. I just want him to get better.
11:00 PM
Okay, I’m back at the hotel…
When I left, the status was still up in the air but they are suspecting pancreatitis…however you spell it. Basically, it’s not good.
When I left his CT info wasn’t back yet but he was definitely staying the night. He kind of kicked me out. He said that me staying wasn’t going to do either of us any good. My time would be better spent packing up and sleeping at the hotel and then coming back in the morning. I think I was annoying him asking if there was anything I could do every five minutes.
I’m kind of numb right now.
I don’t really have anything else to say…except my friends are amazing and I love them…and I love my husband more than life itself and I don’t know what I would do without him.
Any Male Readers, Run Screaming From This Post.
I had to have an ultra sound today as I have been having very irregular periods over the last few months and I wanted to get down to the bottom of it. Actually I just wanted to get on the pill to try and regulate them it’s my doctor wants to get down to the bottom of it.
I went to the doctor on Thursday and the male nurse that saw me heard the word Period come out of my mouth and announced that I needed a pap smear. As he was flying out the door to relay this to my doctor I had to shout after him that I was still, in fact, on my period.
“Well, um, uh, then…we have a problem.” Was his response. He ran out the door to discuss with the doctor and came back asking me when I would no longer be bleeding. I informed him that that was the whole problem. I do not know when I will stop because last month I didn’t stop at all. He got kind of flustered and said: “Ummm, I gotta go ask the doctor again.” As he flew out the door a second time he actually muttered: “I’m so glad I’m not a woman.”
My doctor finally came in and we discussed what was happening. She said the first thing she wanted to test for was to see if I was anemic or not. Ironically the way to test for this is to take blood. I asked if there was a blood test to see if you have diabetes. She said yes but that I should really be fasting when I do it so I told her to write down that test and I will do it some morning on my way to work.
The second thing she wanted to make sure about was that my ovaries and uterus were functioning properly. She wanted to make sure there are no cysts or what have you that might be possibly causing this bleeding. That brings us to today’s lovely visit to another doctor to have my insides checked.
When you have an ultra sound done they make you down 44 ounces of water an hour before your visit. I followed directions. I drank so much water I was sick to my stomach. Yet when I finally got into the examining room and they started using the little scanner looking thing, she told me that my bladder was not full and I would have to go out to the waiting room and drink more water. As you can imagine, drinking more water was the last thing I wanted to do, but I did it.
After about 45 minutes another girl came and took me in a different examining room. She said my bladder was full enough to see my uterus but not my ovaries. She went on further saying that it didn’t matter since they can take pictures of those when she does the probe.
WHAT?????
My doctor conveniently forgot to mention that she had ordered a probe as well as the ultra sound. Oh, and it is just as invasive as it sounds. I’ll spare you the gory details, just know that it involves a camera at the end of a very long stick.
So yeah, Kelly was a very uncomfortable girl today.
I don’t know when I will hear back on the results of my tests today. I go in to get the blood work done Wednesday morning.
I’ll keep you posted.
I am a 50 something married woman living in California.
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