Written Whispers

Sorry to all of you who’ve been worried about me. I meant to write this sooner but I’ve been focused on recuperating and taking more time for myself… and I’ve had a few battles along the way, most of which I won’t be sharing, that are still weighing on my mind.

-

Anyways, just a little update. The night after my last post my Hubby took me in to the emergency room. It was my night of work since the accident and heedless to say- it didn’t go so well. My neck was so bad I wanted to cry, lifting things hurt, and every time I moved a certain way all these little electrical shocks would rush right up my spine and I’d see these tiny white diamonds flash behind my eyelids.

-

Sadly, that wasn’t why my Hubby took me in.

-

I have problems with my spine and hip so we expected that kind of trouble but there was this huge, swollen, area just to the right of my abdomen- not quite next to my hip. There wasn’t any bruise but it was so bad you could still tell there was something wrong just by looking at it. We were worried that maybe when my elbow came back (the way I sit, car hits, jerks forward, jerks back, elbow comes back into abdomen) it might have jabbed my appendix.

-

So, we took me to the emergency room and… well, the whole experience was worse in my perspective than the actual crash. We went in directly after work, so about one or two in the morning, and didn’t get home till maybe seven. There’s a 30-40 minute drive from my area to there.

-

They took me in, gave me like six X-rays (nothing new to me) and a cat scan- one of the worst experiences in my life even though it was pretty much routine. I don’t really want to go into the details of all that stuff, let’s just say I held it in until I got back to my room and then I cried as soon as my Husband was within reach. I don’t do hospitals, small spaces, needles, strangers, random incidents with chemical dyes, or anything like that very well. The combination all together after a painful day at work that still had me reeling was just far too much for me to handle in such a short period of time.

-

The good news is all I had was whiplash with some muscle bruising. As far as my abdomen goes, the cat scans revealed that when my elbow came back it bruised one of my ovaries causing a cyst to form super fast. For those of you who don’t know, cysts aren’t bad. In fact 80% of girls and women have cysts on and off throughout their entire lives but most of them don’t even know it. It’s just something that happens. Sometimes though, when conditions are just right, cysts are very, very, very noticeable not to mention painful.

-

The nurses gave me some pain pills for my neck and the cyst, did some blood work, and then we all went through an interesting experience with my past medical records. The very last time I’d been in the emergency room, eight years ago maybe, my ‘bio mother’ had apparently put that I was allergic to shellfish, Advil, Tylenol, aspirin, Motrin, Midol, and ibuprofen. I’m not allergic to any of those, and for the record- I love shellfish.

-

Anyways, then we went home. … This is a terribly written post but… whatever. The cyst ruptured maybe two days later… I’m not going to explain that. Now I have to go back to the doctor on Monday or someday… because my abdomen is still hurting but now it’s all over.

-

Alright, that was my update. I need to run off and get some more sleep.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 9:10 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.