Thursday, May 24, 2012

Healing

So, for those of you who follow my Facebook, or my Twitter, you know that a couple weeks ago I was in the hospital.

For those who don't know: 5 May (Saturday) I had a stomach ache. As the day went on it got worse and worse and I ended up not sleeping. By 6 May (Sunday) it was bad enough that I asked Tene to take me to the ER. I hadn't slept, and I went to the ER around noon.

At the ER I got lots of tests, and a nice dose of Morphine - taking my pain from it's eight or nine down to a ... four or five (later down to a two). After a CT scan at, like, six, I was admitted to the hospital proper - the results? Appendicitis.

Sometime around eight or nine (it was a long day, I lost track) I was wheeled into surgery, appendix was removed  (it hadn't ruptured, fortunately), and I woke up about an hour later, safe and sound (although my throat hurt from the stupid breathing tube, and my arm hurt from the IV), and I was finally given a useful dose of Morphine (I'd been kept at a lower dosage until the surgeon showed up so he could more properly evaluate the pain and such - at least that's what the nurses told me).

I spent the night in the hospital, and slept a little but not much (hospitals are not comfortable!). Around one or two the next day I went home, and I've been healing since.

It wasn't too bad of a healing - took about a week and a half, on and off of Vicodin. I'm a lot better now, though.

I just figured I might want to let everyone know that I was in the hospital, or you all might want to know that I was ill.


In other news I'm dealing with some pretty bad depression, unfortunately. I'm working on it, but it's a long road, you know? Seeing a psychologist (CBT specialty), psychiatrist, and a naturopath to see what they can do to help me.