A Night in the Emergency Room...

It started with a fever and a rash, and before I knew it we were in the Emergency Room last night. They swiftly put a mask on me and I thought it was because they didn't want to catch something from me, but it was actually the other way around...to protect me from catching a virus from the hospital! So they did a bunch of blood work (which is always my favorite thing to do....NOT) and even at one point my blood was squirting all over the floor (according to John who got to watch the entire show) as I sat with my head turned for fear of passing out. Boy, it's a good thing I didn't see that. Apparently the nurse didn't have total control when she started to draw my blood. I don't know, but something went wrong. After that was cleaned up, they did a chest x-ray to determine whether or not I had pneumonia, check. Then, the blood and urine tests came back, nothing out of the ordinary, blood work looked perfect, check. The doctor came in to do an exam and ask me what seemed to be about 1,000 questions. One of which happened to do with my stools. Well...particularly if I'd ever had bloody stools. To make a long story short, they did a rectal exam and started to think that I may have something called Colitis which could have been brought on from my chemotherapy. So all of a sudden they're talking about admitting me into the hospital to stay overnight, etc.! I'm transferred to the "In-House Doctor" and he stops by to access my situation and ultimately decides that staying in the hospital might do more harm than good, considering I had my wits about me and seemed to be fine, that if my fever returned, that I should just come back. He thought that I may actually get sick if I stayed in the hospital...which sounds so weird, but makes sense. He ruled out Colitis and ultimately determined that I may have hemorrhoids...lovely. So, the fever and rash just went away on their own and now I'm supposed to just keep an eye on the hemorrhoids (if that's really what it is) and let Dr. Hui know about my ER visit. So...here's the breakdown:

Time in the ER: 5 1/2 hours
Total cost: $50
Time alone w/my husband: Priceless

It's better to be safe than sorry. I didn't sleep very well last night, kept tossing and turning, afraid I was going to get sick again, but ultimately didn't. To make a long story short, I'm fine. No need to worry, I'm hanging in there :)

Peace to you all ♥ Love, Genie