hi,,,
Sunday, November 18th, 2007[edited 11/19/07 11:11 PM]
Sorry i’ve been scarce. Besides work keeping my busy , on Wednesday went to see a new doctor. His advice seemed quite sensible. So I decided try it….
Well, I woke up Thursday moning with an almost full fledged migraine, not to mention light sensitivity and nausea.
I drove to work after puking a few times, brushing my teath again as soon as I got there, so no one would know.
I managed to fake it until almost 10AM. I inspected my office foor as a possible bed. I eventually crawlled down and tested it using one of my piles of paper as a pillow. The severe trobbing pain just intensified what I knew was not a usual migraine.
The 1st empy bed I asked permission to just give my head a rest in for half an hour, to see if it would pass, was being worked on by a housekeeper doing her thing in it as I was calling the unit Director. Room TAT’s are suppposed to be 30 minutes. So I killed 30 minutes, I did mail, had an episode of diarhea and then waited outside the room another 27 minutes and the cleaning of the room had yet to be started, never mind the bed being even whiped down (wiped to dry down is 20 minutes minimum to kill all the nastier bugs). A spanish soap opera on TV either made her attention to detail more focused, or less so, depending on your perspective. I gave up after 45minutes mostly because I had to throw up again and thought I might pass out.
I did throw up in the 3rd floor nurse’s longe bathroom, but managed to make it to the bowl so it flushed away with no left befind labor. My next stop was CDU, an area in the ER that usualy has patients, but is rarely full. I asked for an out of the way bed, where my I could just try and reast off the worst of the pounding in my head ache. As it was they had no people back there.. I was alone in the complete peace of a whole sequestered unit.
Softhearted souls who know me as a hard worker who has never given up on them; never gave my request a second thought. They showed me the 1st empty bay told me to holler if I needed anything, then left me to situate myself. Could I figure out the bed controls? Not a chance. And darnded if I had it in me to jump on the bed. My shoes kicked off in on side, I pulled up a chair on the other and ended up getting on the bed wrong way round. No matter, I could reach the pillow, I grabbed it and pulled it down over my throbbing head. I was descending into helplessness. My body was trembling, I was doing the ‘please don’t puke, the light and movement’s gone’ in through the nose out through the mouth deep breathing ritual, and it blissedly worked. I was able to be still for almost an hour.
In that hour I couldn’t get a grip though and I knre this was not a usual migrane. I knew I needed to get up and go to triage and register as a real patient. I just couldn’t move, just the thought of lifting the pillow, sitting up and trying to walk put me flat on the floor and out cold. As luck would have it, just as I knew I couldn’t just wait it out, the security folks rounded and found me. I scared him since he expected the unit to be empty. Then my boss called my cellphone wanted to know where I was, I was late for our meeting.
After that, wheels spun. It only took a little while for the ED Triage nurse to process me & then the ED Doc. to see me. He ordered lot & lots of lab work, a CT scan and a neurology consult. He also ordered an IV and some Nubain and Phenergan. Besides making a huge dent in my head ach before the neurologist saw me. I was actually able to sleep completely through the CT scan, and all the bausea was gone. Since it was dark when the neurologist saw me, my pain was down from 10 of 10 to 5 and I could focus without puking, it was much easier to explain my history…. and my occult symptoms forunately were well documented.
New meds. Can’t spell for beans, but I feel clear…. Was I ever? [actially I mostly missed ya’ll and felt the 10 day since my last post]
Still new meds, not so in a hurry to post before ready. Quite late for a lucid post for a drunk though ai’t it…. *grin.*
Love y’all