They always say how there is a first time for everything. Last night, I had my first experience in a hospital where I was actually the one being admitted. Here is how the story goes:
Around 4 p.m. yesterday, I was experiencing some pains on my right side/back. I didn't think anything about it because it truly felt like nothing; I actually got Anna to step on my back because I thought it was just needing to be popped or something. Well, I had biology lab from 6-8:50 p.m. After lab, I came back to the dorm room and decided to relax before working on some biology homework. Suddenly, the pain on my side increased times 10. I couldn't sit, stand, lay or breathe comfortably because of the pain. I went into the bathroom and just laid on top of the toilet. After vomiting (sorry you guys), I thought I would feel a little better...I actually started feeling worse. I then decided to lay in the hallway/bathroom because I didn't really know what to do with myself. All of a sudden, I hear Anna running towards me. Even though I was in a butt-ton of pain, I laughed a little and said, "no Anna, I am not dead" because I knew that was probably what she was thinking. After she ran and had a spaz moment, the rest of my roommates followed. She started arguing with me saying that I needed to go to the hospital. Now, I am sure all of ya'll know how incredibly stubborn I am. Me and her bickered for about 10 minutes until I told her I was not going to the hopital - the end. I had called my brother before going to the bathroom the first time and asked him to bring me some pain meds. He called and said he was outside Rose right about the time I started puking again. Maggie thought it would be a good idea to tell him (while there was other guys in his car) that I was laying in the hallway, naked, and throwing up. Thanks, Margo. Yeah, I was definitely fully clothed...so no one get excited.
While Anna and Maggie were gone, I was still laying on the ground but this time I was in Megan's lap. I just started bawling my eyes out. I was hurting so bad...and I had no idea what to do. Poor Megan, I bet she thought I was losing my mind. I'm not one to cry when I am in pain - I am stubborn like that. She then started calling my sister and telling her everything. Around this time, Maggie and Anna came back up. While Megan was on the phone with my sister, Justin started telling them that I needed to stand up and jump off of an elevated surface...yes, he said he wanted me to jump. I started to stand up and then I said, "Why on earth does he want me to jump? I can barely stand straight." Well, remember me saying earlier that I told Anna I was not going to the hospital, end of story? About this time, Tyler was making his way back to Rose and we were all going to head up to DCH like a big ole happy family. Anna, my smallest roommate, grabbed my arm and helped escort my happy-tail down the stairs. Once getting to the lobby, I decided it was a good idea to duck my head so I didn't scare anyone. Maggie and Megan were a few feet behind us; Maggie told me later that she noticed that the people at the front were giving me weird looks. Maggie went up to them and said "She has appendicitis!!!" Way to go, Maggs. Yeah, they started apologizing right then - aha.
After finally making it to the hospital, Tyler let me and my roommates out while he went and found a parking spot. After walking in the door, a security guard snapped on my roommates telling them to walk through the medical detector. He then looked at me and forcefully told me to sit in a wheelchair. Remember me telling ya'll that I was stubborn? Well, I looked at him and said "I really don't mind walking...". He said "No. It's hospital policy. Sit." After sitting in the wheelchair, he pushed me inside to the front desk. I had to fill out some personal paperwork - I literally couldn't write straight. After finishing, the lady behind the desk kept telling me that she couldn't find me in the computer. I was like WONDERFUL. After a few minutes, she finally found me. I looked over to my roommates and started crying again...this mean nurse-lady pushed me away into a small room and I sat by myself...aching with pain. The mean nurse-lady looked at me and said, "Your friends are going to have to stay out in the lobby! I am NOT dealing with all of that crap tonight!" I looked at her and said, "They are? They were just kindly helping me inside because, you know, I am kinda struggling at the whole "walking" thing." She looked at me, while finishing taking my temperature and my blood pressure, and said "fine then walked out. I am thinking someone must've peed in her CHEERios earlier that morning.
After sitting there for a while, another lady came in and asked me all of those personal questions like, "do you smoke? do you drink (I bet it had been a while since they had someone say no to that - PS, this hospital is right across the street from the campus)? When is the last time you have had your period? Are you pregnant (get ready - I have a story about this)?" After she finished quizzing me on my life, she finally left the room and said someone will come get me shortly. I then heard Tyler and Maggie's voice - they decided to come back and keep me company. Right when they entered the room, I started vomiting again - aha! "Shortly" to that lady must've meant around 20 minutes, because that was how long it was until another lady came in and got me to go to ANOTHER room.
Once I entered the next room, a Doctor came in and told me that they had to run like a billion tests on me. You should've seen the excitement on my face. She gave me one of those hospital gowns to put on and vomit bag then left the room. At this moment, I was sweating and I was in sooooo much pain. About ten minutes later, my nurse came in and gave me a "pee cup" and a wipe thing and said, "wipe first then pee". She said she had to do that so she could tell if I was pregnant or not (that is twice that I was asked that same question). She escorted me down to the bathroom and said, "Don't forget, we are in exam room 6." I laughed and walked into the bathroom and said, "Ohhhh-kay great. Thanks so much." After peeing in the cup, I looked down and saw the wipe and said, "crap...". I quickly picked up the wipe and threw it in the garbage...like she was gonna know if I used it or not. I waddled back to the room and put the cup on her little table and laid back down on the bed.
Four minutes later, she came back into the room with a huge basket of tubes and needles and I almost started throwing up...again. She started by telling me that I was shown negative for being
pregnant. Tyler quickly said "SHE BETTER BE" and I tried to fake laugh, but my eyes were glued to her basket. I could just feel what little color I actually had left on my face just completely vanish. I am pretty sure she started telling me what everything was for, but I was honestly too nervous to actually hear what she was saying. She started walking toward me with two needles and I quickly said, "I really feel like I need to tell you something - I am really scared of needles.Yes, I can do this...but don't tell anyone if I cry, please." She looked at me, smiled and said, "Don't worry, you will be fine." Well, she first started by sticking my right hand. Before shoving the needle in my hand, she started telling me that since I am so dehydrated, she was worried that my vein my burst. I looked at her with wide-eyes and said, "what!?" She smiled and said, "Don't worry. If that happens, it will only leave a bruise." Yeah, she wasn't kidding about the bruise. Anyways, after sticking that hand three times, she decided to try my left arm and found a winner. After drawing a butt-ton of blood, she then decided to shoot stuff back inside me. First, she shot this stuff in me that was supposed to help me with my nausea. She started telling me that I might taste it. About this time, I started tasting something that was a mixture of ear-wax and this stuff that I used to breathe in when I was younger when I had bronchitis and needed breathing treatments. Right after that, she looked at me and said, "Okay. This is morphine. It is going to make you feel really...weird. It could make you drowsy." Directly after she shot it in me, I felt my eye-bags nearly hit the bed - they were that heavy. My body started going numb. She then, unfortunately, hooked me up to I.V. fluid to keep me hydrated. I was really hoping that she was gonna take that horrible needle out, but I guess you can't have everything.
Four minutes later, she came back and informed me that I needed to go to x-ray and pushed me outside of the x-ray room. I was literally laying in hall on my bed kinda like John's dad in "Dear John". A lady then came out and said "Haley Moody?" I, for some reason, raised my hand and said "yeap!" She smiled and asked to see my wrist band then pushed me in the room. Right after she pushed me in there she asked, "Have you been tested to see if you are pregnant or not?"(third time, in case you forgot to count). I started busting out laughing! I looked at her and said, "No mam, I am not pregnant. She just informed me that I wasn't, but I knew I wasn't already." She laughed and said, "Yeah, we are just supposed to make sure." She helped me get up so she could take pictures of my bod, aha. After she finished, she pushed me out the door and asked this random lady if she was with me. I looked at her and started laughing and said "no". She continued pushing me to my next destination.
In this room, two ladies helped lay me in a machine that examined my lower abdomen. The ladies in this room first started by asking me if I was pregnant. I am not gonna lie...all of them asking me was making me wonder if they knew something I didn't, aha. I looked at them and simply said, "Not today." After the machine did its business they helped me back onto my bed. I laughed and said, "I'm sorry I am giving ya'll a show. These gowns are currently working against my wishes." After I thanked them for their help, they started laughing at me and told me how great it was to have a sweet patient. I guess I just make friends everywhere. :) They helped me into my room and wished me well.
After waiting over an hour, the doctor came back in and said, "Well..." She started off like she was going to tell me something serious like I had Ovarian Cancer or something. I almost started hyperventilating. "We couldn't actually find the kidney stone, but that was what this was. Either it is currently passing through or it doesn't have enough calcium in it and we just can't see it. Your tubes are dilated and torn a little, but don't worry, they will heal right up." She then started acting like I was going to have to stay over night; when she said the nurse was coming to unplug me and going to release me I said, "yay!" She looked at me and said, "I really hope you start feeling better, but I will most likely be seeing you again - most people who get kidney stones are prone to getting them again." I looked at her and thought, fan-flipping-tabulous! Twenty minutes later, the nurse came in and finally took that horrible needle out of my arm. I am almost certain that I sprinted down that hallway to the lobby.
My roommates looked up at me and ran to me. I was pretty sad that Delicious didn't come and wait on my departure - don't worry, I informed him that I was quite upset with him. :) Megan ran up and said, "Is it okay if I give you a hug?" Baha I looked at her and I said "yes"; one after another they hugged me and then Tyler came around with the truck and took us back to Rose. After getting back to the room, my roommates started acting like I was disabled or something. All I wanted to do was brush my teeth, drink a few gallons of water and then go to bed. Anna was like, "No, you cannot brush your teeth - Maggie will do it for you." I looked at Maggie and said, "Lets do this, Ms. Dentist." Everyone started laughing. Thankfully, they allowed me to do it myself. After drinking my gallon of water, I went and told everyone that I loved them and laid in my bed. I am not really sure if I opened my eyes once that whole night. Fortunately, I slept straight through Biology...for the first time. :)
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| I figured this would help make this whole "shin-dig" funnier :) |
I am sorry this one is so long! I really hope ya'll enjoyed my first, AND LAST, visit to the hospital!
Have a wonderful Friday! Sweetdreams ;)
Love,
Haley
"Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don't even deserve to be an issue in your life."
- Anon
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