A night in the ER

Just when I was ready to have a good nights sleep after all of the reunion business, I spent all of Sunday night/Monday morning in the ER! Around midnight I had the most painful feeling in the right side of my stomach. It didn't go away after a few minutes so I woke up Dave for a midnight doctor appt. He checked things out and felt around all my organs in the area while the pain got worse and worse. And then of course Anna wakes up! I get her back to sleep as I am crying in pain while Dave is thinking about his diagnosis. "It's either your appendix or your ovaries" I started to feel nauseated and after about an hour my personal doctor advised me that we should go to the ER. We packed up our sleeping baby and headed to the hospital. At first they just thought that I was pregnant even when I assured them I was not. After ruling that out, they took my blood to run some tests and gave me some morphine. (which didn't do much) Anna, who did not fall back asleep after she woke up to go in her car seat, found the hospital fascinating! She would not fall back asleep with so much to look at. Around 3:00 am they told us it wasn't my appendix and it was probably my ovaries so I would need an ultrasound. TWO HOURS later they came to get me for my ultrasound! Dave and Anna did not fare so well during these 2 hours of waiting. Anna was tired beyond control and Dave only had a folding chair to sit/nap in. They were troopers for coming along with me. The ultrasound made me a little nervous because she had to do 2 different kinds and then she wouldn't tell me anything because she said the doctor would come in and tell me what's going on. It turns out that I had an ovarian cyst rupture. Not a huge deal, just really painful. I guess when it ruptures the blood and fluid get into your abdominal cavity and that is what causes all of the pain. No surgery needed at least! They loaded me up with pain pills and sent me home around 6:00 am. We were a tired bunch, so we headed home to get some much needed rest. My mom was nice to come get Anna and watch her for us in the afternoon so we could finish resting. I've got lots of pain pills, but it really feels fine now. Kind of a random thing. It was nice to have Dave there knowing what to do and explaining to me what will probably happen next. I think he liked being able to diagnose me but the bad thing about having a husband in medicine is that you don't get much sympathy. They know you're going to be okay so it's just a matter of getting through it. Just a few worried looks would have been nice. :) I'm going to try hard not to rupture any more cysts for awhile though. It wasn't much fun and I'm ready to get back to "normal!"