Here We Go Again...

As some of you may have heard, I broke my New Year's resolution.

How did I do that you may ask?  Well on Wednesday, I went to the hospital.

My stomach has been a mess and a half, I hadn't been eating and anything I was eating was not staying in me.  I wasn't even really able to keep up with my fluid intact.  And the pain in my stomach?  Awful.

So after leaving work early and calling Dr. I, we decided that we were going to Goose Lane.  I was under the impression that I would be going there and eventually staying overnight at Yale New Haven.  Or at least that was the plan.  But obviously plans change.

We did go to Goose Lane, ended up in the same room where this whole process started and I got hooked up to some IV's.  They addressed the fact that I was extremely dehydrated and gave me two bags of the fluids.  I had some saltines and a healthy choice type chicken dinner and it didn't come back up!  Because of this, they sent me home.  However, when I questioned the pain in my stomach, they basically said I had to call Dr. I the next day to find out and all they could do was give me pain meds and send me on my way.

While we were filling the prescription for the pain meds, I got a phone call from Dr. I.  Mind you it was 7:30 at night and I was not expecting to hear from him at all.  For this reason along with countless others, he proved his nickname of the Rockstar.  Anyway, he told me he didn't agree with them releasing me because in case it was a flare up, I wouldn't be able to tolerate the steriods by taking them and he was expecting me to get it by IV.  But he asked about the pain and then told me a little about the lab work that came back earlier that day.

I have an infection and that's what is cause all my discomfort.  Now they don't know if the infection is active or not but he assumes that it is due to my symptoms.  He basically told me that I could start antibotics that night or I could wait to hear the results of the second test on Thursday and then we can proceed accordingly.  I decided on option two and went home and got into bed.

Yesterday, I called the Rockstar to find out more about the infection because my mother told me a few things about it that she was concerned about, one of them being the fact that I can have visitors.  Anyway, the test results still weren't in and he suggested taking the medication so I can start to be on the mend.  And while it may sound silly to start treating something that we don't know I definitely have, he has not steered me wrong before.  

I started that medication yesterday and while I don't feel a huge change, I'm hoping it works.

Rest time now.  I'll updated once I hear back from the doctor.