I have been sickly as of late.
Feels like I am always sickly lately.
And I am not pregnant.
At the beginning of the month I was suffering from some chest pain. My brilliant, should have been a doctor if he liked math and science husband suggested that the symptoms I was having were similar to last year when I had pericarditis. Which is an infection of the lining of the heart that I got after having a nasty chest cold. Having recently recovered from a nasty chest cold, it seemed plausible and as the pain got worse I headed to the ER.
That will be a recurring theme in this story.
They diagnosed me with pleurisy in my left lung. Painful but not serious. Whew. But I was also having some stomach problems and not able to keep anything in. Anywhere. That is as graphic as I will get. The ER staff seemed more concerned with the pleurisy and sent me home, confident I would feel better.
My intestinal difficulties got increasingly worse, adding some nausea, stomach cramps and vomiting to my already fun symptoms. After being extremely uncomfortable for a day and a half I called my doctor who sent me some medicine that would help. It made things worse. Thanks Doc!
The next day I visited the good doctor and he ordered a bunch of fun tests and put me on an antibiotic convinced that I had some weird intestinal bacteria. The symptoms got even worse then. He ordered a different prescription and that one seemed to be helping...at first.
The next evening, after Evan was finally able to go back to work because I couldn't stand upright to take care of Sadie, my symptoms got rapidly worse and...you guessed it, back to the ER.
There I finally got some pain medications (morphine IV...yay!) and some more tests and medications and FINALLY a diagnosis.
I had a bacterial infection in my intestines that caused my colon to become infected and essentially shut down. I didn't even know that could happen. In reaction to that I developed a bladder and urinary tract infection too. Big Fun. I was sent home with pain meds, nausea and vomiting meds and more antibiotics.
Thankfully, I started feeling better. Unfortunately my follow up test results showed that I wasn't.
I had a CT scan this last Thursday and the results came back normal, which is great. But now I need to go see a specialist.
And I have a cold now.
But I am feeling better.
And this was WAY too much information for you probably, so thanks for sticking with me, but hopefully this clears up any questions for those of you who have been bugging me.
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