The ER, through the 1st night...
The emergency area of the hospital... I had seen it once before. But never really needed to go there like I did right then.
It was hard to walk... I forgot to mention that. My walking - no - my movements in general, were slow. My thinking rate was normal... and I could tell that I wasn't moving very fast... We got inside and they took my blood pressure. Then, a man led me and my mother to some reception type place. We waited an amazingly short time before they took me back into a room. I was presented with a hospital gown and instructed to put it on. My mom and the nurse/doctor (I don't even remember if they were male or female anymore... I think female) left the room, and I changed out of my clothes and sat down on the bed. Laid down. And little did I know, that that would have been the last time I'd walk for a very long time.
The room looked weird, I think. It was partially dark... It seemed huge. But then again, it seemed small. I think I had a door, but BEFORE that door, on the inside, there was a curtain, I think... but I think I could see out of my room. Yeah... I remember seeing other people there. I remember hearing other tales. But I've forgotten them all.
My dad showed up sometime. I guess my mom had left and called him. I think he came from work. I don't know what order anymore, it's all jumbled up. I was given an IV and about every 10 minutes they came in and wanted to take more blood from me. I finally gained thirst. I couldn't have caffeine, though something caffeinated sounded sooo good, I asked my parents if they could get me something to drink. Nothing without caffeine sounded good anymore. But, they ended up offering me Vernor's. It was bubbly... and I could swallow it with suprisingly less pain. It made me feel a bit better, and I actually grew to like that stuff ^_^
Okay, during the ER times I was rushed around to many, many tests. To find out what was wrong with me. I had a few X-rays, and I think this is when they took me down for a CAT scan. The CAT scan memories are weird ones. I was pushed around in my bed for the tests 'cuz walking was too difficult to keep up. Rolling into the place where I would be having the CAT scan, my memory tells me that there was a silver hallway... Like the walls were made of metal... In my head it looks like a fairy tale. The guy taking me said something to some other guy there... Went through a door. The room was white and there was a strange white machine in the middle (gasp! I wonder what that could be *rolls eyes at own stupidity*). Some other doctors there... I think guys and one girl. To move me onto the platform to go into the machine they lifted the blankets under me and placed me on there... There was something to hold my head in place... It was warm & felt nice compared to all the pain my head was giving me =\ I was slid into the machine... It was cold and airy and made some weird noises. I kept my eyes closed most of it, but when I looked, there was ... I don't know how to explain it so I guess I won't. But I remember thinking about what I was looking at and describing it in my head :s
Once that was over, I laid there for a while, and the doctors went into some other room... Behind a window I think I could see them. They were looking over the films. It was dark there. And bright where I was.
Thirstyyyy... very thirsty. After this I was put into some waiting area with other people ...um... in beds. Like I was. And I saw a drinking fountain, if I could walk, I would have loved to use that thing.
It seemed like hours I waited for someone to come get me. Some other women were waiting around and talking to eachother. I waited...and waited.
Someone came... I was taken back to the ER room... or maybe not. I think that then I went to get an ultrasound or something. My parents were trying to find me at some point and I remember passing by them and they sent someone to see where I was being taken. They caught up to me and they were let in while, I think, I was having the ultrasound (I'll ask people later on to check on things that happened, my memories of before going under anesthesia are faint).
That thing disgusted me... the sounds... coldness... urgh, the sounds made me want to scream. I can't stand noises inside the body, heart beating... it makes me tense.
It gets later... and later... I think I had some other tests, but, who can remember? CT scan? Did I get an MRI then...? I have no idea... I was admitted to the hospital and taken to a room. A bunch of doctors came in and talked to me. What time was it? It was late, I was tired. I answered all sorts of questions (somehow...lol) I thought they moved my room... or my bed, sometime. At 1st there was someone sharing my room. But later I had my own room. Was it hours later? Or the next day? I don't know. I said goodbye to my parents and it must have been 3am or so...? I was left there alone... Was it that night? I was suddenly on the other side of the room... Doctors kept feeling my stomach and stuff and every 3 minutes (exaggeration) a nurse would come in and take my blood pressure and temperature (something I guess you get very used to). I talked to many doctors then. Laying in my bed... in faint light. Talking was difficult, by the way, I could hardly voice a single word. Oh, and I had the monitors attached to me... I think the yellow line had something to do with your lungs/breathing rate, the red was heart rate, and there was a blue line too... maybe that was the one about oxygen in blood.
During the night, I remember being freezing cold. A nurse told me it was because of my fever that I couldn't have another blanket... but I was shivering, so cold... They gave me platelets for my blood via IV. They looked brownlike and it was weird...
Sometime, somehow... I fell asleep...
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