Friday - And Not the Best Way to Lose Weight

 Ohhhhhh, I'm sick!  I actually (and you should sit down for this) went to the ER on Tuesday and was there for 6 hours getting 3 1/2 liters of fluids and lots of nausea meds and scurrying to the bathroom with the runs.  And I called in sick Wed and Thurs and I don't know how I'm gonna make it tomorrow either!  ::heavy sigh::  I think I am getting payback for every time I've said "I never get sick" to a patient!

And would you believe the most horrible part of all this is I came out of the ER weighing 5 MORE POUNDS than when I went in!  Okay VERONICA, you want to explain this to me?  I mean I know how it happens but geez what kind of luck do I have?  Same thing happened to me when I had both my c-sections, I got fluid overloaded.  I kept telling people (okay not people but nurses I work with) "enough already I'm drowning!".  But the doctor was like "she needs to pee" and I said "I'm peeing out my butt!" (sorry if that was a little TMI, lol).  I finally took out my own IV (yes I did!) and said "I'm sick, I don't feel good, and I want to go home.  Somebody call me a cab!"  Okay, so now you know that everything you heard about nurses not making the best patients is true!

So I went home still not having peed but feeling moderately better.  No longer dizzy and feeling like my heart was going to beat out of my chest when I stood up.  Problem was I was stubborn (I know hard to believe isn't it?) and was self-medicating at home for 24hours before a doctor at an Urgent Care blackmailed me into going by AMBULANCE to the ER (that is a story I will have to tell you about some day why I even went to the darn urgent care to begin with).  He thought I had gallstones and had pancreatitis (I don't have a gallbladder I told him) because I had billirubin and protein in my urine  (I've been throwing up and had diarrhea for 24hours and I'm dehydrated I said).  Then he thought it was my appendix because my abdomen was tender (let me push on your stomach while you are having diarrhea I told him.  It's not my appendix I swear!).  I just have gastroenteritis (basically a mean tummy bug) now give me some different drugs than I'm already taking and a note and let me leave!

Needless to say since I'm home moaning to you guys guess who was right?  I swear, some doctors are meant to be in urgent care clinics.  Oh and yes I did say that out loud cause guess who gets the bills after all this is said and done?

Okay here is the tally:

Weight before evil urgent care: 122.8
weight after evil urgent care: 127.8
weight today: 124.8
total weight loss: i'm not exactly sure!

Well, hope you've had a better week than me!  I am still having sweet dreams of Bon Jovi to carry me through!!!

Ciao!  De ;)

Tags: the tummy bug