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Oh boy-my internist took one look at me and sent me to the hospital. She wanted to rule out pulmonary embolism, a really nasty blood clot. I feel like the walking dead today but the overall summary goes a little like this

-Internist said blood pressure was 180/126 and pulse was over 150, I was dehydrated and look terrible (gee, you think?)
-call boss, he asked if I could wait until after work to go to hospital, umm NOOOOO!

-Drive myself to er
-Got to pass a long line of people and got an ekg
they decided I wasn't dying at the moment so shipped me back to a different department
-FIVE needle pokes later, get IV
_no less than 4 docs poke at my tummy and seem fascinated when I rithe in pain
-finally get pain shot of diladid

Fast forward about 8 hours
-ended up soaking up 4 bags of saline
-2 chest x-rays, 2 abdominal x-rays
-drink two glass of crappy tasting contrast stuff for cat scan
-lay in strecther in hallway because no rooms available
-No less than 8 cranky, pissed off nurses and one really nice, cute one!
-ended up with 3 diladid shots, two tordal and one phenegrahn to keep it all down
-Get abdominal cat scan, looks ok but of course takes hours to find that out
-have nasty, explosive d and the bathroom at hospital is GROSS
-released at 10:30 pm with a script for zantac and percocet
-probably severe gastritis or ulcer-nothing they can do for either
-follow up with consult with gi guy next Wednesday for upper endoscopy, not sure how long it will actually take to get the endoscopy??

So, loads of fun, arms look like a junkie, feel like walking dead and look oh so lovely in greasy ponytail and no make-up. Managed to come in because boss was here this am but will be leaving very soon to go home and crawl in bed.

The humira IS helping with my joint pain and swelling. Its not all gone but it is improving. It also seems the D stops for a couple of days after the shot. Due for shot tomorrow and D is back in full force, despite having eaten next to nothing since Friday.

Forgive my ramblings, way too much drug in my system, shouldn't be conscious.

Still haven't ruled out a visit to the psych ward yet. Asked the internist yesterday and she said lets ruled out everything else first!

Thanks for every ones responses. I did read them all, forgive me for not replying, as she drools on keyboard, can't think straight-must go home.

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Taking it one day at a time.....

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