WHHW (Working husband/hospitalized Wife)

Clever title for the week if I may say so Myself.

My sweet husband has spent the ENTIRE week trying to make sure I get better while still working a full time (sometimes longer than 8 hour day) job!

On Monday I started feeling a severe discomfort in my upper abdomen right below my breast line. By the end of the day I had a severe pain in my lower abdomen and had thrown up once. 

Tuesday I thought I could suck it up and go to work... I did, well I tried, for 5 and a half hours. I was so happy I was able to zero out (for you non Myler employees) in my department (Hearing Management) every Tuesday you must have all your emails/milo mail and voiecmails checked and returned. Lucky for me I ONLY had 65 milo mails and 23 Voicemails. It took me from 8 until 1:30. I was feeling a lot of nausea and uncomfortable the whole day, but I did it!

I went home early and emailed my doctor right away about my situation. Its a blessing I am still able to be on my father insurance.... just wish I could see a regular doctor out here (hence why I end up in the emergency room later).

I love our Dr. Dr. Tataro is so great. He has been my moms, Aubrey's and Hunters doctor.

The first email I sent I got an auto response that the Doctor was out of the office until FRIDAY. Great! 

I start to get really ancy when I have been sitting at home for too long, especially with my new job (and Jenny, Whitney, Ashlee, Monica and lots of others can atess to the fact that I LOVE my job). Really! So much, that has really been the hardest part of my week, not being able to go into work everyday.

1. I feel like I am missing out on helping the hearing managers that need it.

2. I love that place.

3. I have the most amazing people I work with.

And 4. I just love the work and I love my cubical and I love having a job where I feel I am actually doing something productive.

So, its definitely clear how much I love my job and that its has been a little treacherous being stuck at home sick all week.

Anyways: Sorry about that little work tangent. 

When I got the email from the Dr's auto response I was a little worried. I tried to avoid Hospitals at all cost. Usually I can work through something on my own.... Not this one! 

Wednesday morning I was so relieved when I had an email from the Dr. He said that the signs I am showing are signs of an Ulcer (of course!) He gave me some advice on how to "fix" it, some over the counter meds i should get and to just cool it the rest of the week. He said obviously something has triggered my body recently... Still not sure what though. He also said if I didn't feel any better by Thursday I needed to go to the Hospital. 

 

Thursday morning the Hospital is exactly where I was. I drove myself (In Kevin's defense he had left for work for the day and I hadn't told him I was going.... In my defense I did not want to make anything into some big deal when I knew they would just be running a bunch of tests). I hate hospitals. Something about them makes me queezy.  I had my own room, and two male nurses, John and Alan that attended to me. 

Kevin showed up when he found out I secretly had snuck off to the Hospital and we just sat around waiting for lab results. I was still feeling some pain so nurse Alan gave me some medicine. 

I went from about a 7 to a 50 instantly. No joke. He gave me a whole tube, vile, whatever they are called of a drug called Toradol (a pain killer) and My body did not like it. I instantly felt out of control. I could feel the cold medicine running across the inside of my chest. Everything go really fuzzy, I felt dizzy, my arms and legs started tingling, and everyone seemed to be in slow motion. Even my speech dragged on and I felt like I was slurring everything. And Kevin and the Nurse were just staring at me! 

It was awful. My heartbeat jumped from 80 to 150 in a matter of seconds after the medicine was injected. And of course what do they wanna do when your heart rate gets that high?? Inject you with something else. My poor body! This lasted for about an hour, me tripping out! The machine I was hooked to kept beeping every 5 minutes and the nurse would come in, look at the screen with a perplexed look, ask me how I felt and then walk out again. I felt helpless. I told the nurse at one point that I felt worse then I did when I came in. 

After that traumatic experience I had an ultrasound to check my gallbladder. My gallbladder looked good and my blood work was also good. Of course?!?! The Dr. (Dr. VanWagoner) said that it is most likely an ulcer but because I have no bleeding and it has not effected my gallbladder I need to continue to rest and he prescribed me some medicine that he said I should see a change in discomfort within a few days! Praise the Lord. 

Its Friday now. Kevin left at 5:30 this morning (hence why I am wide awake now.) He works so hard. I am so proud of him and his determination to be able to provide for our family someday. He does such a great job now helping provide for the two of us, I just know all his hard work and determination will pay off in his line of work over the next few years! 

I love that man.

My schedule for the day. Take half of this HUGE pill I was prescribed on an empty stomach. Probably fall back asleep, the pill makes me a little drowsy. Wake up and do what I have been doing all week. Nothing :)

I guess I could have saved the blog writing for later but I had it all fresh in my mind now.

Maybe do some laundry? I mostly just sit and watch movies all day or nap. I have been napping a lot because I am in the least amount of discomfort when I sleep.

So many kind thoughts from everyone on Facebook and through text messages, regarding me being sick.

We have so many wonderful friends and family members ready and willing to help the moment we need it.

I feel truly blessed.

Thanks to my husband who came home with my favorite flower and my favorite candy. Major points x3 because I'm sick!  

Thanks to my sister Aubrey and ALMOST Brother in law Daniel yesterday for driving me to go get the medication. You two are great and we are so thankful you are close.

I hope everyone else has had a lovely week and has a lovely weekend. Myler has a huge work BBQ this weekend at Lehi park and I have been so excited to go.. Not sure if I'll be feeling up for it or if it is even appropriate I go since Ive been out all week.

Thanks again for all the thoughts everyone. We are truly blessed.