ER visit

Oh my word...so we spent last night in the ER...for me. I started having what I thought was heartburn Friday night. Had incredible pain, then threw up a few times and felt better, but by the time I went to bed that night I still had a dull burning pain in my chest. I tried taking tums...then Malox...then Zantac and nothing worked and I kept throwing up and feeling crappy. Fast forward to last night (three days of this mind you)...I was feeling okay and just sitting up in bed watching TV waiting for Jared to get home from his softball game. Around 10pm I started feeling really bad and couldn't get comfortable. It hurt to sit, stand or walk. Then I started throwing up. I'm crying at this point b/c it hurt so bad so I called my OBs after hours line and went through the whole barrage of questions only to be told that I should go to the ER. I would probably have waited it out if she hadn't scared me a little...so Jared's uncle came over to stay with Jayne and off we went. And we waited, and waited and waited. Finally after 3 hrs got to a triage room only to be told that, not to downplay my pain, but the doctor still had multiple "more critical" patients and it may be another 1-2 hours. My pain level at this point was down to a five so we decided to head home and wait it out until I could call the doctor this morning. The good news is they did check the baby and all was well and he or she had a strong, normal heartbeat. Thats all I really cared about!

All this time I am assuming its just really, REALLY bad heartburn but the OB nurse said it doesn't sound pregnancy related at this point b/c at 17 weeks the baby shouldn't be pushing up that far. But she also doesn't know that I carry small and I think it very well could be the baby pushing everything up...but what do I know??!! So she says to get in with my General practitioner today or if I cant, go to Urgent care b/c it sounds like either something wrong with my gall bladder or I have an ulcer. Great. So I have an appt with my gen. practitioner who I haven't seen in over three years. I pray that it isn't something bad and can be fixed with meds or something.

Today is going to be a rough day running on only 3 hours of sleep. But I'd rather be safe than sorry any day.

- T -