Well this past week I have been suffering from a really bad cold, flu, or virus. The true identity of what is invading my body is unknown at the moment.
All I know is that if it was physically possible I would have coughed out both of my lungs and possibly a kidney. Not very enjoyable I must confess. Well all of the coughing and losing the voice all started on Thursday. Soreness in my body began on Friday and so I began to take my new medication. Let me tell you, that was the best sleep that I've had in a long time. It was nice deep, uninterrupted, and nice dreams kind of sleep.
So my family and I were pretty dang happy when we found out that it worked so great. Well on Saturday I began to have a dull pain in my hips [which is normal with the P.O.T.S and the fibro] so I just waited it out as I normally do but this time it didn't get better with time. I found this odd but didn't give it a second thought, because I thought that maybe it was not going away because of the cold.
The pain then started to move to the back of my hips {which was completely new to me} and then the pain started moving up on the scale by the second. I went from a 2 to a 10 within five minutes. It was the most pain I've ever been in ever. Then the weirdest thing stared to happen {something that I've never experienced before} the pain started moving down my legs. The next thing I knew both of my legs, from the hip down to the foot, felt as though some one had poured rubbing alcohol on them after they cut it a thousand times over. It is the only way I can explain it that makes any sense.
So I took my pain/sleeping pills {like 5} plus an ibuprofen 800 mg, and a pain patch.{not in that order} these things were not working so I took a really hot bath.... don't do this unless you have someone to keep an eye on you. Thankfully I had my mom there to help me or I wouldn't have been able to do this. I sat in this hot bath for at least 10 to 15 minutes {felt like hours} and since I took 5 pain/sleeping pills I think you can guess what happened next. Yes, that's right I started to fall asleep in the tub. Thank goodness I have a good mom and she helped out of the tub.{practically picking me up and moving me around the bathroom}
I am pretty sure that for someone on the outside looking in would have found the quite funny. I know for a fact that if someone had filmed it and I could go back and watch it I would laugh. Well this happened Sunday night and again this morning {the pain, not the falling asleep in the tub} so my mom called my doctor and that turned into a trip to the ER at primary children's. Well the typical stuff happened I got in, got my iv, got blood work done, and got instructions. Then we were on our way home. This was the shortest hospital visit that the Slack family has ever seen in the history of all time.
Well my mom and I met this really cool guy while we were there. He was the tech who did my IV and the cool thing was is he did it one handed. Yes, one handed. He had an accident in November and he accidentally amputated his own hand. It was a cool story that came with gory awesome pictures. Well anyway that was my experience today. Oh and there is a new type of IV that is really cool and I absolutely love it!
Anyway, while we were at the hospital we found out that the leg pain could be caused by two things. Either the new wonderful medication that I am on or what ever has invaded my body. We won't really know until I am better and take the medication. It's going to be a wait and see kind of thing, I am really hoping that its this little alien that decide to invade my body and explore. So hopefully it is done with its exploration and get out of here. So with that my friends I leave you with my latest adventure and hope nothing but the best for all of you!
P.S. don't forget to wash your hands and stay healthy!
WARNING: picture of IV if you don't like IVs don't scroll down
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