Pain!

Sunday I went to church and was enjoying since the previous week Clif and I had had to speak, so we were a lot more relaxed this time. In the beginning of Relief Society I started to feel a slight pain in my tummy area so I ignored it like I do a lot. After fifteen minutes I couldn't ignore it anymore, I figured that my nylons were just getting uncomfortable so I snuck out and went to the bathroom to rearrange a few things (some of you know how nylons can be the most annoying things ever). I went back and the pain didn't go away. When leaving church and on the way home I was starting to think that maybe it was heartburn since I was pregnant and that is a symptom of pregnancy. I got home and had clif run to Allen's house to borrow some tums. I took three and it never made a difference. Two hours after church I was still hurting and hurting bad, it was all in the very top of my tummy just below my ribs so I wasn't really worried about the baby. By this point I couldn't handle it, I wasn't getting any relief and it hurt. I cried and Clif didn't know what to do but kept giving me things that we thought might help. After trying one thing I rushed to the bathroom and threw up over and over and over. When I got up I was shaky, hot, cold, dizzy, and still in a lot of pain. I told clif that my temperature had to be wacky and suggested we go to holly and allen's again to take my temperature. We got there and I was crying most of the time (my nieces were confused and sweet affie kept coming to me and giving me pretty smiles to cheer my up). We took my temperature and blood pressure. Temperature was 94.7 and I can't remember the blood pressure. I threw up again there. Clif tried calling doctor Tindal, my OB doctor but he was out of town so we talked to Doctor Connolly another OB Doctor and he said it was most likely a bad flu or gal bladder and that to be safe we should probably go to the hospital. Clif and Allen gave me a blessing and then we headed to the ER. I just wanted the pain to go away so I hoped this would be the best choice for that to happen soon but I was out of luck. We got there and they had us fill out a small amount of paperwork, took me to a room, asked me what was wrong, and had me change into a gown. Then they took my blood pressure, temperature, blood sample (which apparrently they let me bleed on the floor since clif has a pic on his phone of blood all over the floor below my arm), put an IV in, and wrapped me in lots of blankets since I was really cold to them. They also checked the baby's heart beat which was just fine. It came time for the shift to end so we had to wait for the switch to change. The new nurses came and checked everything all over again. Eventually, an hour and a half after being there and five hours since having the pain, one of the nurses asked how I was doing and I told that I was still hurting a lot. She came back with a small amout of morphine, I was just so happy that they finally were going to try and help me feel better that I didn't really think about that they were giving me morphine, a thing I would have usually thought was used for bigger things that what I was going through. It took a few minutes but they pain lessened, but never went away completely, it also made it easier for me to close my eyes and rest which was nice, I didn't sleep, just rested some. After being there for two hours they came back after looking at my blood and urine and said it was indeed gal bladder causing the pain. They gave me a little more morphine and told me when I felt well enough I could go home. I was tired enough wanting to sleep but there bed wasn't letting me that I didn't wait long. After being there for three hours Clif helped me dress and walk to the car. They sent a pain killer (less than morphine :) ) and a perscription to get an ultrasound done the next day. I got home, Clif insisted I eat something and had a hard time getting me to eat much since I kept dozing off. I finally got a little salad and an entire apple down and he let me sleep. It just felt so good to not be in such bad pain anymore that I didn't care that I still hurt a little bit, I just slept. The next morning my tummy area was sore, like it had been run over by a car or something (maybe from the throwing up, I am not sure). I ate a handful of cheerios before I got a call from Clif saying I had to fast from then till four when he had scheduled my ultrasound. I was beginning to miss food. We did the ultrasound and I do have gal stones in my gal bladder. We still haven't had any one really tell us what to do about it besides be careful what I eat. I am watching the fat and off dairy products for awhile (I hate that, the dairy part). Clif found some herbs that are supposed to help dissolve gal stones and improve the gal bladder so we want to try some of that to hopefully help. Tuesday I was even more sore than monday, I walk hunched over cuz it hurts most to stand. Today, I am sore still but not as bad. The baby seems to have not minded any of this at all, still moving around like crazy.