Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Can't sleep

So, after waking up and an hour of laying in bed unable to sleep I decided to come write a post. Last Friday I worked all day at our shop, Pat was out of town and I was covering for him. Anyways, I wanted to take my kids swimming so I was hurrying home about 5pm and I called my sis-in-law Denise to see if she wanted to go but she didn't answer. I thought I would take them anyways. Well, when I got home my house had been destroyed by the kids and their babysitter so I changed my mind. I got things in order, took the babysitter home, did some tidying, and sat down with a headache. It was now 6 pm. I got up to take some excedrin and felt a little woozy, and then when I took the excedrin I felt nauseated which I attributed to not eating for a while so I ate a granola bar. By 6:15 I was full on, sicker than a dog. I had every symptom you can think of. I was worried, really, that something bad was happening to me, and with Pat being out of town what would my kids do if something did. I left the 3 older ones at home and drove to the nearest Instacare with Jaida, calling our buddy Jasen on the way to see if he would take my kids some dinner, which he did ( Thanks Jasen!!!). When I got to the doctor, Denise called me back before I got inside and I burst into tears telling her what was going on and couldn't stop crying from then on. She offered to watch my kids and I told her I would call her back when I knew how long I would be. Well I ended up asking her to come pick up Jaida and go to watch the other girls at my house, but by the time she got to the doctors office to get Jaida, I had had blood tests, lung x-rays, given urine, and they couldn't really find anything but elevated white blood cells, which happens when you are sick. The doctor was concerned about how fast this had come on and how I had vomited in his room 3 times and I was weeping so he sent me over to the emergency room for more testing. Denise drove me and Adam took Jaida to my house and watched all the girls for me ( Thanks Guys!!!). I was in major pain at this time in my back, chest, stomach, and legs. Well after being there for 3 hours the conclusion was that I had a virus in my stomach lining and intestinal track. The doped me up on strong pain killers and anti-nausea medicine and sent me home with 3 prescriptions. It was midnight when we got home and Adam had all my kids in bed asleep (Thanks Again!), and Denise tucked me into bed, I could hardly walk. I called my mom and told her what had happened as best I could while being so under the influence of strong narcotics, and she decided to fly Pam up on the next flight out. Pam arrived at 9 am the next morning, I was still in bed, and she took over (Thanks Pam!!!). Denise showed up a little later and they cleaned and watched the kids, and when Denise had to leave, she has her own cutsie little baby Eliana to look after, Pam continued to care for me and watch the kids. I did not get up that day except to go to the bathroom, and I slept the whole day and that night and most the next day. Pam was a trooper watching my kids and keeping the house clean and monitoring my medications. I tried to come out to be with my kids Sunday evening but I ended up crashing in my recliner, so Pam took me back to bed. Monday I was way better and could move around, but I cat napped on and off throughout the day. Oh Pat got home Sunday night around 2 in the morning and found out all that had been going on. He felt so bad. He had been up in the mountains, unable to be reached. Anyways today, Tuesday, I have felt waaaaaaay better and even went and worked a little at the shop, but I can still feel the pain, especially right when I eat and when I haven't eaten for a while, and I get dizzy easy and have a headache, but thats better than it was. Now though, I can't sleep and I am wondering if it is because I slept for 3 days straight. Probably :).

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Geez Mary! That sounds horrible....Iam glad you got some help and that you feel better!  I am in town and if your up to it a little later in the week I would LOVE to visit and catch up! :)

:) Jen said...

that last comment is from me....Jen

Jenni said...

Mary! You told me you were sick, but I had NO idea just how sick you actually were!! You failed to mention that part! (I've been that sick before, and I know exactly how you felt---it takes days to recover from it)I am so sorry you were all alone without Pat, but it sounds like you had a good support system in place.

I'm sorry about canceling on you (again) due to sickness. Owen is pretty sick, his fever hasn't broken and it's been about 10 hours, so I'm getting a little worried.

I talked to Don about hanging out on Tuesday, and he's glad that it's worked out that way, because he really wants to hang with Pat.
**Hopefully everyone is better!

Kiera said...

Mary,

I found you through Emily and I remembered that I think I saw you and your cute family not this past 4th of July but the year before that. I didnt say hi because I was unsure but now Im sure of it so now Im saying hi!

I'm glad to hear you're feeling better.