An interesting night...

I went into work about 3:30 yesterday afternoon, and my day had been going fine, I was just a little more tired than I thought I should have been. Well about 4pm my chest started feeling tight and was hurting, it wasn't horrible, it was just bothering me. So I just ignored it for a while, but it was progressively getting worse. I was getting to the point to where I couldn't take full breaths, and every time I swallowed I would get a really sharp pain...Now understand this, I have a very high tolerance for pain, and I have dealt with a lot throughout my life so when it gets to the point to where I'm thinking about leaving work...its BAD. Anyways, I asked if I took a ten (my shift supervisor already knew I wasn't feeling well but I didn't tell him how bad it was) I called my mom asking if I should go to patient first after work, my mom said that she was going to come meet me at work and if I decided to finish my shift that was fine but either way she wanted to come and check on me. So I went and told my shift that I might be leaving early to go to the doctor, he was really cool about it he just said go ahead and close your till and clock off, don't worry about it. So when my mom got there we ended up going to the hospital simply because it was closer. Well, by the time I got there the pain was at a 10 on a scale of 1-10...I didn't want to move, talk, breathe, anything. I hurt a lot worse to lay down than it did to sit up, so when they were doing an EKG (usually they want you laying down) it got so bad I started yelling, but I was in so much pain I couldn't sit myself up so my mom had to...luckily they could still run the test with me sitting rather than lying down. Well, I didn't have a heart attack, which is good. They did blood work, gave me some GI meds to see if it was a stomach/esophagus problem, and they took an x-ray of my chest. They ruled out all the big things. But they don't know what it is. They have a few ideas of what it could be, but they would need to take a CT scan and they were hesitant to do so. They didn't want to do the scan because they have recently found out that CT scans can cause cancer and on women, when we have kids it could cause birth defects, because a CT scan has the radiation equivalent to 500 x-rays, and I've already had probably 2 CT scans before, so they don't want to do that unless they need to. So, anyways, they did give me a medicine which is an anti-inflammatory/pain med which really helped with the pain, which is why they think its something inflammatory in my chest. But, they sent me home on a "watch and wait" protocol. So if the pain gets as bad as it did last night, I go back. Well, the medicine they gave me has worn off obviously, and the pain is coming back. I've been taking Advil which is a ton less effective as the meds they gave me, but it takes a tiny bit of the edge off (mostly because it’s an anti-inflammatory).

Mostly right now, I'm really tired. I dared going to choir practice tonight, which probably wasn't a good idea because my pain is a lot worse now, and just moving around some completely wipes me out. Luckily I don't have school or work tomorrow, so I have one more day to try and recover. I'm hoping that this will eventually go away, whatever it is. But I have this suspicion that it’s going to happen all over again. I think I might be able to deal with this a lot easier if I weren't so tired. And its still hard for me to get comfortable, especially in bed because the pain is worse when I'm laying down...I might try sleeping in the living room on the lazy boy.
At least I'll be able to study for my A&P class...Oh, hah, something funny...one of the things that they think that it might be, is something that I learned about in A&P Thursday. Your heart is incased in 2 membranes, and inside them is a liquid, so it’s kind of like a water balloon but with an extra bit of rubber protecting something inside. It is basically a buffer for your heart to be able to move and to prevent friction. Well they think that my liquid/membrane might be inflamed. That's just one of their ideas of what could be happening, but I thought it was funny that I had just learned about it.
Anyways, I think I'm going to go sit in the lazy boy and watch a movie.

So...I'm finally at a computer that I can blog on...I know its been a while. I don't even know what I want to say. This semester is going to be probably my hardest yet. I'm taking Anatomy and Physiology and I basically feel like an idiot going in there being the only one not studying to be in the medical field.

I'm just sitting here in the library wasting time before my last class for the day.

Yeah this is the most pointless post I have ever written. I think I'm just writting because I can.

so..yeah.

Later.