Well, it felt like I was having a heart attack anyway. My chest started hurting on Thursday night with a really sharp pain and it happened all of a sudden. I was sitting there watching TV and texting when it felt like I was being stabbed in the heart. Then I was crying from the pain and I couldn't breathe normally. So my friend drove me to the ER - the Am. Fork hospital is so close I probably could have walked - just kidding - I could barely stand from the pain! They hooked me up to oxygen and gave me an IV of morphine (which at first did not touch the pain), gave me aspirin to chew in case I was having a heart attack. And then I did test after test- given more meds and tons of x-rays and ultrasounds and EKGs and blood tests. I was in the ER for 7 hours!!!!!!!
So the verdict was that I have pleurisy. "This is an inflammation of the surface of the lung tissue. It can be caused by old scar tissue" (since I've had pneumonia and bronchitis countless times). It is painful and the pain is made worse by heavy breathing" (of which I was doing because I was in PAIN-duh!) "coughing or sudden movements. The treatment is relief of symptoms which include rest" (yeah - I like that idea!) "anti inflammatory medication and pain medication".
So THAT was MY excitement of last week.
3 comments:
SCARY! but i'm glad it wasn't actually a heart attack. sorry about the trip to the hospital - but hopefully now everyone will let you do what the dr. prescribed and REST!
Hey, it's Shannon. Shelley's sister. Glad to see you have joined the blogging world! Sad to see you are in pain. :( That is so scary. I was looking through all your posts and your kids are so big! My goodness! I guess it's been 3 and a half years since I've seen any of them, or you for that matter, so it makes sense that they'd be bigger! They are good looking kids. Thanks for the post - now GET SOME REST!
Just can't stay away from the hospital, huh??? Sorry to hear of your ordeal, glad you are OK!
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