*Graphic-don't read if you get grossed out.
I'm not going to give all the details because frankly I don't want to be blogging about the same thing for a whole week but I will give some details. I will give a bit of a background that I've had this pain before but I was pregnant with Kya at that time so they couldn't do all of the tests that they were able to do this time. Back when I was pregnant with Kya I went to the hospital because of my appendix, they took it out sent me home and a day later I was having the same pain that I was experiencing THIS time that I went.
So since I was familiar with the pain I knew it was going to be bad. The pain that I was having was a sharp pain in my high stomach. So on Sunday of last week we went into the hospital with me moaning in pain, they told me it was probably gas and sent me home in the middle of the night, two hours later we were back in the hospital and this time they had me stay. They admitted me so that they could run a gallbladder test on me on Monday. Before the test they decided that I needed to have a GI tube.
More like a HOSE!
And no I didn't get any pictures of me with the hose up my nose. But this old lady looks WAY to pleasant with it up there. The only thing that was keeping it from coming out of my stomach was the tape on my nose.
Lets just say when the nurses that come in to SHOVE a hose up your nose say, "This is NOT going to be pleasant!"... um, they know what they're talking about. The hose was shoved up my nose and down my throat into my stomach, SO not pleasant! Then for the gallbladder test they hadn't let me have any pain meds for 5 hours before hand then they had me lay completely still on my back which was super painful, because I hadn't been out of the fetal position for the whole time I was there. The test took so long they pumped nasty things into my tube to make my gallbladder do a ton of stuff, which made me throw up a ton of nasty green bial, remember that I was on my back and wasn't supposed to move!
After Monday the days kind of run together I was needing pain drugs every hour but had to wait two hours in between. It hurt to talk with the GI tube in my throat because it would move slightly which hurt my nose and throat. They were continually running me down stairs in the mornings for a new test. On Thursday I think it was that they did an Upper GI test. Which was very long. They said on average the test takes a couple hours, mine took 6. They had me try to drink some foaming stuff and a couple of other things until I started throwing up on them. Then they pushed three cups of thick white nastiness down my lovely tube. And x-rayed me every 15 mins for the first 2 hours and then every 30 for the rest of my 6 hours! I hadn't spent that much time out of bed the whole week and it wore me out. The next day they did surgery, luckily it was Laparoscopically which means I have three small incisions and that scar tissue was the problem. Evidently when I got my appendix out they put staples in after the surgery and one of the staples had hit my small intestines which probably caused this pain the last time. This time the obstraction was caused by the scar tissue. I am glad that they figured out the problem, and hopefully I will NEVER have to do that again!
The rest of my days were spent in the hospital from after the surgery till Sunday and with way less pain! Which is the only time I pulled out the camera because I felt a little better. I really missed my kids and being home... OH it's good to be HOME!
Kya was pretending that she was the one sick and I was the doctor.
This is where Preston spent most of his time... and the kids thought it was super fun to be able to get a cup of ice chips every time they came.
They poked me so many times I have bruises up and down my arms from all of the IV's and poking for blood.
