2am ER Visit

Before I get to the ER visit I want to give you a little background from the few weeks leading up to it.
December 17- We were traveling to Utah for Randy's first appointment. We stopped and ate Jimmy Johns for dinner. I took over driving. I ended up super bloated- so bloated I felt like I was going to puke and I was in extreme pain. So we switched drivers. We debated that night about going to the dr. We eventually decided to wait til morning and if I was still in pain then we'd go. By morning most of the pain was gone.

Over the next few weeks I had this sort of thing happen again and again though nowhere near as bad as the first time. I just took tums because I got really bad heartburn as well. Those seemed to help a little.

Fast forward to last Saturday. By this point, I was having pain just about every time I ate something, and sometimes even without eating anything. This particular Saturday the pain didn't seem to go away except when I was walking. Sunday I attempted church but left early because I was feeling nauseous and dizzy. So I went home and slept all day. Literally. All day. Monday morning, I felt better than the day before but I still had pain. By the time we were going to bed that night I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep.

Now I know it is not good to have this much pain. The only thing that seemed to help were tums and passing gas. My bowel movements were still regular so I knew I didn't have a bowel obstruction causing this. I hate going to doctors, so I debated for a long time Monday night about whether it would be worth it to even go. Then I started to freak myself out, maybe it's been my appendix this whole time, or its my gall bladder. Maybe I have something else really wrong. It was the middle of the night, I was in pain, I was tired, what would you expect? Finally about 2 am I made my decision. I woke up Randy and we went to the ER.

When we got there the ER lady at the desk asked us what had brought us in. So we told her abdominal pain. She jumped up immediately and filled out our paperwork for us. If I hadn't been tired and in pain this may have freaked me out more but luckily it didn't. She got us back quickly and they immediately began testing and asking questions. They took blood and gave me an IV with fluids. After they got the IV hooked up they gave me some kind of pain medicine. It made me loopy.

To describe what I mean by loopy. I thought I sounded strange to myself. Everything I answered it sounded like I answered with a gleeful/giggly voice. Almost like I wasn't taking it seriously. Which I assure you I was. Randy told me the next day that I actually didn't sound like that and that it actually just took me a few seconds longer than normal to answer.

After they took my blood they got the CT ready and took me to get one done. That was weird. The contrast made me feel strangely warm in weird places. Like my nose, throat, and it made me feel like if wet my pants (I had not).

After the CT they took me back and they had me get them a urine sample.

I'm making this sound like each of these happened in sequence but in actuality there was probably a half hour or more in between each test.

So after waiting a couple hours we finally got some results. Blood tests came back clean and so did the urine test. Now we were waiting for the CT results. When they came back the doctor told me that my appendix was fine (they didn't say anything about gall bladder at least not that I remember) and that the CT had shown that I have an ovarian cyst.

An ovarian cyst? That's what's been causing me all this pain? I thought they only hurt when they ruptured. I guess I was wrong. Since I'm in so much pain already I'm worried for how much pain I'll be in if/when it does rupture. I'm hoping that it doesn't and that it just goes away. A girl can hope right? Anyways, they prescribed me two different types of pain medication. And sent us home with instructions to follow up with a primary Doctor and to return to the ER if I start vomiting, get a fever, have vaginal bleeding, or a couple other things I can't remember off the top of my head.

It's been a couple of days now and I still have pain. I stopped taking the stronger pain med because it made me so dizzy. I've just been taking the less strong medication and that seems to keep the pain at bay. But I can only take that one for so long. I guess we'll see what my primary Doctor says. I will keep you updated.

Til next time!
Becca

PS- Randy's surgery is this next week so please keep him in your prayers and that everything will go as planned in the surgery. Thank you!

New Year Resolutions!!

Before I jump into the New Year Resolutions, I wanted to give you all a quick update on Randy's surgery. We have a date set for him to get it done!! He will be having surgery February 4th :) ok on to the resolutions!

It's that time of year again!! The time where we all make resolutions that we all end up failing at lol :)  I usually don't make any but this year I had a friend tell me her and her husbands system when they set the resolutions or goals for the year and I loved it!! So I told Randy about it and we decided to set some goals for ourselves :)

To make it easy on myself, I will be B, Randy will be R, and together will be T. Sounds confusing right now but you'll understand in a moment!

Personal

B- be a better housekeeper. For those who know me really well they know that I'm not the best at keeping up on the housework. So my goal is to keep up better than I currently do. I still may not be perfect but hey at least I'm trying right?

R- be more positive and less grouchy. For those of you who work retail, this will make complete sense. After dealing with grumpy customers all day it's hard to stay positive. Randy set his personal goal to be better.

Educational

B- learn more quilting techniques. I love to quilt and I'm always wanting to learn more!

R- figure out the best time to return to school. We know the sooner he gets back the better. We just have to decide whether it would be best for him to return to school this summer or next spring.

Financial

T- pay off personal debt consolidation loan. Yes we have debt. I know very few people who don't. Our goal is to get all or most of our loan payed off. We got this loan to pay off some credit card debt that seemed like no matter how much we paid on it it never seemed to go down.

Physical

B- get outside more. I don't need to lose weight I'm perfectly fine where I am. But I do need to get outside more. This I believe will help me get fit, meaning more muscle :) getting outside more means to me that I walk more, or garden, or play with my dogs. Maybe even hike. I don't really know, just getting my butt off the couch lol

R- more muscle! Randy would like to gain some muscle this year :)

T- drink less soda. Randy and I LOVE Dr Pepper and our goal this year is to drink less. So far we aren't doing so great with this one ;) but we are trying.

Spiritual

B & R- work on personal scripture study. We both had the same goal with this one :) we do really great at family scripture study but our personal is lacking quite a bit! So we want to be better about taking the time personally to read the scriptures.

T- be better about saying our family and personal prayers. This is another area we've been lacking in. For the first few years of our marriage we did really well with this. Rarely missing a night, then we slowly stopped with personal prayers. Saying them some nights but not others and then the same thing happened with our family prayers. So we made a goal to get back on track with saying them every day.

Hopefully these inspired you :) and maybe you can help keep us on track! Also a quick apology for not blogging for so long. Christmas and New Years kinda threw me off. Maybe I should make a goal to actually get my blogs up on time lol ;) anyways, I wish you all a happy new year!

Til next time!
Becca