Hi all. I haven't been around in the last week because I got a terrible headach last fri and then on sat morning woke up and it was even worse!
Well my DD and DS were at my best friends for a camp out thankfully so I told DH to send baby Bubba over to her also because the headache was the worst I had ever felt!
Finally Sat afternoon after my best friend threatened to put me on the roof of her car and take me to the emergency room or else I had DH take me. I was thinking the whole time they will tell me it was just a very bad migraine and send me home. Oh how dumb I was!! The nurse in triage was asking me if it hurt when I bent my neck forward and of course it did plus I had a 100 degree fever. Well she was nice enough to let me go and lay down instead of having to go back out into the waiting room with all the screaming kids. Was only laying there for about 1o minutes when they took me into a room and the first person I saw was not a nurse but the head er doc!!
he started to do an exam on me and asked me how long I had had the rash on me. I looked down suprised and said about 10 mins maybe since I hadn't seen it until then! He then runs to the door that leads to where the nurses are and yells lets rock and roll folks! We need to get a spinal tap and blood cultures done in 10 mins! OMG!! I was totally freaking out when he told me they thought I had menengitis! Well after a painful several minutes of being poked and prodded with every needle known to man they were finally done. My husband comes back into the room the Dr tells him his preliminary diagnosis and hubby starts looking a bit pale and tells me he needs to leave the room. I tell him as he is walking out to call my parents. Suddenly I hear a thud and a nurse yelling in the hall help help someone is down! She then asks the person down if they are ok and suddenly I hear DH's frail voice say yeah what happend? Ok now I am about to have a spaz not only at what I might have but hubby passing out! (I must say he has done it before he has this thing called Vasa Vagel <sp?> but this is the first time he has ever passed out from it!) So they put him in the room across the nurses station from me and the nurse was so kind and to call my parents and tell them that she needs to come they have both of us in rooms! Well my DM and DF get there and are there with me when they tell me the tests are coming back possitive for menengitis and I was going to be in isolation because it could be very contageous! I am having a major meltdown because ever since I was little I have had a major feer of getting menengitis because my father got it when he was 4 and went deaf in his left ear and had major problems from it. Needless to say my DF was just sitting there numb I think hearing that I had it.
So they take me up to my room and make everyone who comes in wear a surgical mask and gloves. I also didn't know if my DH was going home or what till the next morning when he called me from his room 5 floors below mine!! They kept him because his white blood cells were high (they wanted to observe and make sure he didn't have it also) and his heart rate was really slow.
My parents and I have always joked that when I go to the emergency room I do it up and this time DH and I were the talk of the hospital!
Well for the next 3 days it was a bit of a blur because they gave me narcotics to ease the headache which btw only made me throw up.
Anyone who saw me going for a cat scan or my second spinal tap probably had a good laugh since here I was with my heavy duty mask and a giant chicken bucket!
Finally monday night they got the results back and found out I wasn't contageous!
and told me they were releasing me to go home that night so I could at least be comfy in my own bed. At the same time they released hubby but didn't tell me so I get home with my DM and DF and out walks my hubby from the house just getting there 10 mins before! 
So since mon night I have ben on strict bedrest until finally today the headache started to subside. I am so bored since I am not allowed to leave the house until monday morning to go see the Dr The dr is running tests to see if I might have west nile and will hopefully know when I go on mon I just hope it is not because if it is I might have to go back in for more tests and another spinal tap! I just hope it is not after 2 taps I have a back that feels like some one kicked me and can't handle another! So please send lots of prayers and pixie dust
Well my DD and DS were at my best friends for a camp out thankfully so I told DH to send baby Bubba over to her also because the headache was the worst I had ever felt! Finally Sat afternoon after my best friend threatened to put me on the roof of her car and take me to the emergency room or else I had DH take me. I was thinking the whole time they will tell me it was just a very bad migraine and send me home. Oh how dumb I was!! The nurse in triage was asking me if it hurt when I bent my neck forward and of course it did plus I had a 100 degree fever. Well she was nice enough to let me go and lay down instead of having to go back out into the waiting room with all the screaming kids. Was only laying there for about 1o minutes when they took me into a room and the first person I saw was not a nurse but the head er doc!! he started to do an exam on me and asked me how long I had had the rash on me. I looked down suprised and said about 10 mins maybe since I hadn't seen it until then! He then runs to the door that leads to where the nurses are and yells lets rock and roll folks! We need to get a spinal tap and blood cultures done in 10 mins! OMG!! I was totally freaking out when he told me they thought I had menengitis! Well after a painful several minutes of being poked and prodded with every needle known to man they were finally done. My husband comes back into the room the Dr tells him his preliminary diagnosis and hubby starts looking a bit pale and tells me he needs to leave the room. I tell him as he is walking out to call my parents. Suddenly I hear a thud and a nurse yelling in the hall help help someone is down! She then asks the person down if they are ok and suddenly I hear DH's frail voice say yeah what happend? Ok now I am about to have a spaz not only at what I might have but hubby passing out! (I must say he has done it before he has this thing called Vasa Vagel <sp?> but this is the first time he has ever passed out from it!) So they put him in the room across the nurses station from me and the nurse was so kind and to call my parents and tell them that she needs to come they have both of us in rooms! Well my DM and DF get there and are there with me when they tell me the tests are coming back possitive for menengitis and I was going to be in isolation because it could be very contageous! I am having a major meltdown because ever since I was little I have had a major feer of getting menengitis because my father got it when he was 4 and went deaf in his left ear and had major problems from it. Needless to say my DF was just sitting there numb I think hearing that I had it. So they take me up to my room and make everyone who comes in wear a surgical mask and gloves. I also didn't know if my DH was going home or what till the next morning when he called me from his room 5 floors below mine!!
They kept him because his white blood cells were high (they wanted to observe and make sure he didn't have it also) and his heart rate was really slow. My parents and I have always joked that when I go to the emergency room I do it up and this time DH and I were the talk of the hospital!
Well for the next 3 days it was a bit of a blur because they gave me narcotics to ease the headache which btw only made me throw up.
Anyone who saw me going for a cat scan or my second spinal tap probably had a good laugh since here I was with my heavy duty mask and a giant chicken bucket! Finally monday night they got the results back and found out I wasn't contageous!
and told me they were releasing me to go home that night so I could at least be comfy in my own bed. At the same time they released hubby but didn't tell me so I get home with my DM and DF and out walks my hubby from the house just getting there 10 mins before! So since mon night I have ben on strict bedrest until finally today the headache started to subside. I am so bored since I am not allowed to leave the house until monday morning to go see the Dr
The dr is running tests to see if I might have west nile and will hopefully know when I go on mon I just hope it is not because if it is I might have to go back in for more tests and another spinal tap! I just hope it is not after 2 taps I have a back that feels like some one kicked me and can't handle another! So please send lots of prayers and pixie dust
I told him that since he is such a very laid back guy that is why his heart rate is slow
I did get a chuckle about you and dh ending up in the hospital together, but I'm glad he is going to see his cardiologist also.
