.A Day at the OB Hospital.

I have always heard people say that once you have a child that your body gets all out of wack and you can get crazy sicknesses and weird stuff like that but I never thought anything would happen to me.My

Thursday morning I woke up and I felt like I had been hit by a Mac truck! I only had a slight temperature (99.1) so I took some Tylenol cold and flu because not only did I have the fever but my neck and back hurt and I had a killer migraine. I mean I was walking around the house in sunglasses it was that bad. Throughout the day everything kept getting worse and worse and that night when I went to bed my temperature had gone up to 101.5. That night Quinn quarantined me to the bedroom while he and Silas slept in the living room. That night I got no sleep and every time I woke up I was laying in a puddle of sweat, it was gross!

Yesterday morning when I woke up my temperature was 103.5 so I rushed to Regional Medical and they gave me a bag of fluids and called an ambulance to come and get me and take me to the hospital because they thought it was my appendix.

While on the way to the hospital some dumb fuck from New Jersery or something pulled out in front of the ambulance causing the driver to slam on breaks. I nearly thought I was going to go flying out the back of the ambulance.

Upon arrival at the wonderful Outer Banks Hospital ER the nurses began taking my vitals and this bitch of a nurse decides it would be a great idea to take my blood pressure on the arm that has an IV in it. That hurt so bad I am surprised that I did not hit this woman. I think my doctor had a lot of fun yesterday because from the time I got there at around 10:30 AM and the time his shift ended at 6:30 PM he order me for 3 different Cat scans, a MRI and took tube upon tube of blood. When he left they still had no diagnosis for me and my temperature was still rollercoastering up and down and the doctor that took over for him was an idiot in my opinion. Not only did that doctor barely come in to check on me she diagnosed me with a bacterial infection of my small and large intestines. I have to go see a specialist in Elizabeth City next week to have him further investigate the infection. That's all well and good but I just do not see how that would cause the tremendous back and neck pains and the migraines that I was having.

Now I understood that I could not nurse Silas for 24 hours because of the contrast dye that used for the MRI and the Cat scans but then they gave me a prescription for 15 days of antibiotics and I can not nurse that whole time so now it is looking like I am going to have to use formula. I know that eventually I would have had to have stopped breastfeeding but I did not want it to be at such a young age. So needless to say I am pretty pissed off about that!

When Quinn went to go pick up Silas from his parents house this morning, his mom's friend had meningitis a long time ago and said that all my symptoms point to that and the only test that the doctor did not run was a Lumbar tap to test for meningitis. The doctor kept saying to my mom that if it was his daughter he would not do that test unless he really really thought that's what it was but frankly I think he should have because that is probably what I have but I guess we will see. This morning when I woke up and took my temperature it was 102.1 and I was very nauseous and dizzy but I took my antibiotics and my wonderful Vicodins and I must say that I do feel a lot better. My temperature is at 98.1 and I am able to walk around and clean and do laundry. Other than the fact that I am profusely sweating I am happy and I hope that the medicine they gave me works and I get better soon because I HATE being sick.

So keep me in your thoughts and prayers and keep checking back for an update on how I am doing! :)