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Friday, February 27, 2009

The ER and purple clothes

So last night around 7:30 Tyson was making dinner and all of a sudden the smell of the carrots he was making made me nauseous. I was like, "dang it, I hope I'm not getting the flu." Anyway, I was able to eat dinner, feed Brenna , put her to bed and then it started - the throwing up. Around 12:30 I was so cold and achy, I decided to get up and take a bath to warm up. I was in there about half an hour and when I stood up, it hit me - I was going to faint! Well, the next thing I remember I was waking up with a start and wondering why I was laying on the faucet - and WHY the heck was my whole body tingly? Tyson must have heard me fall because he was there all of a sudden and that's when I realized my whole body looked like I was having a seizure - you know how your foot looks like when you have a charlie horse? Yeah my whole body was doing that and I couldn't move my hands. It was so crazy - I felt it start in my feet and moved across my waist and into my mouth - my tongue was so tingly I could hardly talk. It was SO scary - I didn't know what to think - was I having a seizure or a stroke?? Tyson had to lift me out of the bathtub. He called my brother Jesse right away (he's a paramedic) and asked him to come over and watch Brenna because we needed to go to the hospital. After he got off the phone I was like - GET ME DRESSED!! So here I am all spazed out with Tyson trying to get me dressed and of course Jesse shows up and got to see me in my undies:) Oh well. Jesse checked me out as Tyson continued to get me ready to go to the ER. By the time we left the tingling was going away but my hands and feet were so tight I would hardly move them. So to make a long ER story short, they hooked me up to an IV, gave me some meds to calm me down, took blood tests, gave me oxygen and even took an EKG. Twice they asked me if I was pregnant - I was like I hope not!!! (I'm not). Tyson was so good to me - he held my hand and tried to keep me awake. He made jokes and did his best to help me feel comfortable. Then I waited forever! Tyson's parents came and Tyson and his dad gave me a blessing. Finally, the DR came back in and said nothing was wrong - I had hyperventilated. That's it???? Are you kidding me?? Whatever, by that time I was so tired and was feeling better I just wanted to get home. So they gave me a pill for nausea right before I left and told me not to nurse Brenna until 1:00 the next day. We finally got home and I went right to bed. Half an hour later I threw up - A LOT!! After that I felt totally fine - so much for the anti nausea pill! To bad I wasn't able to just throw up before all the drama and prevent all this from happening. Jesse and Tyson talked until about 4 and I dreamt all night that the Dr. told me the only thing we could do for me to feel better was to eat really mushy rice and to wear purple clothes every day - hmm. Today, I feel like I've been run over by a truck - my back and head are pretty bruised from when I fell in the tub. Tyson stayed home from work to help with Brenna. She wanted to nurse SO bad when she woke up. She hates eating from a bottle and it took us from 8:00 to 11:30 to get her to drink 4 oz. I felt so bad. Finally 1:00 rolled around and she got to nurse - she was in Heaven! Good thing she won't remember how mean her parents were this morning. All three of us have slept prety much all day - so nice! So I guess the good thing is I'm still alive! I don't want to that again.

5 comments:

Tiffany said...

Oh my! What an ordeal! I hate it when random things happen with your body... I am glad to hear that you are doing better today!

The Hiller Family said...

Yikes! Glad Jesse was able to come over! Also glad Tyson could take today off! That's awesome!

Michelle said...

That is scary! I'm so glad everything turned out to be ok. Hope the soreness goes away soon. I can't imagine how much that must hurt!

Sunshine Promises said...

That happened to me once (throwing up/tingling body/fainting) when I had the WORST flu bug of my entire life! The bad part? My husband had it too! When he heard me hit the floor in the OTHER bathroom, he ran in and stood over me. As I was coming to, David lost it in the toilet about 12 inches away from where I was laying. Well, that was all it took! I crawled over to the tub and heaved! Yep, it was one of those moments that we can only laugh at now . . . 4 years later!

Photo Girl said...

I'm glad you're okay! How scary!

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