Alas, my dear friends… I have escaped the clutches of the hospital once again. Thank you for your prayer’s &encouragement. It was a very unnerving experience! I am glad to be home in my normal world. Although i am a bit loopy from the morphine hanging around in me and the sleeping pill. Prayerfully, i’ll be back to my good senses in a day or two.
I had a scary episode hit me on Tuesday evening @9:30PM. Before we hopped in the car and went to the ER i though i was gonna die in my house. It was a peculiar pressure under my ribs, up high in my chest. I felt like i was being suffocated from the inside out! Nothing even close to comparison with my typical abdominal pain from the muscles. Before it started i became very nauseous, shaky, and chilled. Typically these are the symptoms of a bowel obstruction which is very likely for someone like me. The pressure got to the point i nearly couldn’t breathe because my chest felt like a hippo was sitting on it. This nonsense spiked my BP to 150/100+ and my WBC was up @ 14,000 from 4.3. The pressure was causing me pain in my back and making me fear things like kidney stones, appendix, gallbladder or bowel obstruction. None of which they found in the end! Praise the Lord!! After admitting me and doing CT’s, x-rays, and starving me I released yesterday. The two doctors they had look at me and the labs came in to say, ”Now you know… NO doctor gonna touch you!” I laughed because they acted as if i was clueless to that bit of information. I didn’t really want them to quite frankly but i did want them to rule out any dangerous stuff. The pressure & pain from the pressure hung around for nearly two days then backed off. Now i just have some irritation internally from it but i’ll survive. They think i could have possibly had the pain from either an ulcer or adhesion’s. Either way neither was confirmed. Adhesion’s could never be confirmed period but an ulcer can be seen. They released me and said go to Tampa since they worked on you. I have since made Tampa aware but we aren’t going up there. They will look at the labs from a distance. We will finally be going to speak with the potential primary care physician next Tuesday. I’m not so concerned about getting an answer to whatever was going on because i know with what’s happened to me it could be impossible to figure that out. Some things are just going to remain a mystery and i’m okay with that. As long as the scary stuff was ruled out i’m okay with the not knowing. Life goes on! If those feelings and pressure where familiar to me i would have stayed home no matter how bad the pain because i know what to expect but to answer your questions “no” what was happening was very unfamiliar and that’s why i resorted to the ER.
I read something in my testimony today and i laughed to myself because the Lord keeps me honest to my words. Those words were:
”Where He leads i’ll go and if that means tragedy, heartache are there too then i’m confident thatHe’ll give me the strength i need to handle those. He hasn’t forsaken me yet… even when i had pretty much forsaken Him for myself. We are ever changing He is always the same. I am smiling right now as I say that because i think of all the things i’ve changed my mind about. Good thing He never changed His mind about me!”
As always i have to remind myself that i am dependant on Him for everything and this life keeps me humble. Again, Thank you for your prayers. They are precious to me. While i’m on the prayer note i wanted to ask once again for prayer for a couple of people. One being Jim the man who i met with the throat cancer. The other being Kristin who is going to give up a kidney to the love of her life. An obviously the man receiving the kidney. I want them all to know the same peace, strength i do in these trials. I also would love to be witness to the healing of all three of them! Please take a quick minute to lift them up in prayer too. Thank you for doing that for me! Love to you all from me!
YAY! You’re ok! Good luck on Tuesday! You are always an inspiration to me in courage!