Fated Strife

Well I didn’t get a chance to update this weekend as I planned… I had to make a run to the ER Saturday night as I was vomiting up fair amount of blood, more than I had before so it kinda scared me.
I went in and got taken back pretty quick, seemed to not be a busy night like it can be at times. I got back there and the nurses ganged up on me and was trying to get an IV inserted so they could give me whatever if they needed to and also to take blood for labs. The doctor came in after awhile and talked to me and such and disappeared around midnight, they were starting to take their lunches around then but she was out there and to put it simply, though GI bleeds can be very bad things, she had more important cases to deal with (people with heart stuff and the like), if I needed someone I could get their attention pretty quick as my curtain wasn’t pulled closed all the way and I could see the nurses station from my bed.

So anyway, she got me a GI cocktail mixed up, from what I could tell it was lidocaine, mylanta possibly, and dunno what else, wasn’t too bad tasting but I knew the lidocaine taste as soon as it was in my mouth. They were trying to see if it’d help my stomach but it never did, numbed it a tad but that was gone pretty quick. She eventually came back in and said we were going to have to put in a NG tube (nasogastric tube, a tube which goes through your nose down your throat into your stomach to add and remove fluids). The nurse came in and was telling me not to try to pull the tube out and such and she sprayed my throat with hurricane spray (numbs it pretty good), commented that people had said it smelled like bananas but I couldn’t tell that, tasted like crap and smelled the same. She sprayed a bit in the ky jelly and got the tube all prepped, I have to say that was one of the most uncomfortable feelings EVER, it hurt like hell and then I had to swallow the freaking thing so it would go down which in turn got my gag reflex going pretty wild, finally got it in my gut and pumped out stomach acid and bile, no food, no drink, no blood. All that torture to find nothing, so she removed it with a nice clean pull and my nose was pouring crap out including blood from the horrible tube and stuff.

I had to go to the allergist yesterday morning, thankfully I am on shots once a week now instead of twice a week. I got sick yesterday after I tried to eat some breakfast, I was able to eat a small amount last night but didn’t help so my mom called Sullivan’s office and got me an appointment for this afternoon at 15:00. I know what will most likely happen, I’ll be prepped for an endo, but with this endo I have the Bravo capsule inserted into my esophagus to measure the acid thats pouring out of my stomach. This was planned earlier and was going to be done if I wasn’t feeling better with the reflux and such and this bleeding made it worse. Just grand. At least I am getting all this over with before my health insurance is gone (which I am losing in a few weeks thanks to TennCare’s ignorance of throwing most of the people off).

I got to talk to Gina some Sunday which was good, but didn’t get to talk with her yesterday any. She sent me an ecard which was pretty cute and gotta thank her for that.

uhh hrmm.. I guess that’s it, not much else going on, playing FFXI some but not really doing all that much in it, just talk to people on there mostly and doing some questing with my buddy Dhalsim

That’s it for now, maybe an update later after the doctor.

Casey would waltz
With the strawberry blonde
And the band played on.
He’d glide ‘cross the floor
With the girl he’d adore
And the band played on.
But his brain was so loaded
It nearly exploded
The poor girl
Would shake with alarm
He’d ne’er leave the girl
With the strawberry curl
And the band played on.

The and the band played on by Bradley Noe, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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