Man, yesterday was overall a pure chaos day. I normally have a headache when I wake up in the morning because of the side effects from the medicines I am taking for the staph infection. However Thursday was little different. It was little more worse than the normal ones I wake up with. I went about on my business during the day. It didn't get any worse or any better so I just got used to it. Friday morning came... At 3 am I was woken up completely drenched. The covers, bedsheets, pillows, my jammies, even down to my hair were wet. I was like what the heck because I knew that meant fever. I got up and went to the bathroom. I felt JUST fine. Just completely wet. I went back to bed and woke up at 6:30 with headache STILL, but it was the same one from Thursday. I took my temperature and turned out I had low grade fever (100.5). So I popped some fever-reducing pills and went on to my business for the day. By 8 am, I got text from my hubby that I really should call the infectious disease center and let them know as they said to let them know of ANY fever, due to the staph infection. Off I went and called them and gave them a head up. They said it was possible it was viral or an infection in my PICC line. That they were going to order a special visit from the home service for the infusion center out of Barnes - Jewish hospital (where I'm getting my treatments from). They had told me if I started to feel worse than what I was at that point or fever start going up to call them back and they had gave me the on call number. I chilled with the kids with a movie (Marley & Me) and had the home visit from the nurse for blood works from the PICC line and my other arm so it was kind of pain in the butt. By 4 pm, I could tell I was starting to feel really cranky. We were heading out to pick up my rx and stop by Game stop so the boys could spend their money that they had gotten from my mom for Easter. They had gotten more wii games and games for their gameboys. When we got the in-law's to dye the Easter eggs, I could not stop shivering. I had the chills, so bad. I had tank top on, long slevee, my light jacket AND my mother in law's fleece robe! I just could not stop. Half way through, it got to the point where my neck started to get stiff and it was starting to hurt to move them around. At 9 pm, I told my hubby that we needed to go home as I needed to call the on call doctore because it was alot worse than I was Friday morning. Jeff had the boys in bed already and I was on the phone with the on call doctor. It was determined that it was best for me to go to the ER, given with my history and the staph infection. I asked if I should go to the local one. He said no, I want you to go to Barnes because they have ALL of my history there with the surgeries and the medicines I'm taking. Plus my ENT and infectious disease doctor are based out of Barnes. It was easier that way. I sighed because this is good 35 minutes away. I said okay, off we woke the boys up and dropped them off at the in-law's. By the time we got there at 10:30 pm, we could tell it was going to be a long night. it was practically FULL!! We waited for 2 hours! By then, I was feeling even worse by then. We finally got in the exam room at 1 am, yes at 1 am!!! the doctor was in probably good 10 minutes later which I was surprised because normally it's a WHILE before you see the doc! The on call doctor had called the ER and spoken wth them so they were aware that I was on the way. So they were somewhat prepared. I ended up having lots of test done. CT Scan, x ray, and LOTS LOTS of bloodworks. Everything came back CLEAN! Nothing could explain for the stiff neck or the severe headache, except for one... spinal menigitis. mmmm.. The doctor came in and said that's the only thing we could try test for.. I was like okay go ahead. I was prepared for it because Jeff and I had watched our middle son, Duncan go through this at 5 weeks old. (viral menigitis in 2001). So I pretty much knew what was going to happen, contested to the test and had it done. It was NOTHING like people have told me that it hurts really bad. I barely felt anything!! Doctor said it'd be an hour before we would know the result.. only that turned in THREE hours!! Jeff and I started to get worried because by then, it was 5 am in the morning and I have my IV meds at 8:30 morning and night, faithfully beacuse I CAN NOT be off by 30 minutes because of its effectiveness. Jeff started bugging them around 7 am and they said they would have me out in time so I could make it home to have it done. Rememer, it's abotu 35 miles away from home. 8 am comes and this is when I take my bendaryl to prevent allergic reaction (which I had on the very first does -- broke out in rash). The reason why they decided not to let me go because they wanted the neuorlogy look at the test result to make sure as they had several doctors checking the results to make sure and one of their on call neurologist doctor wanted to check me out to be safe again. She came by and checked me out and everything was fine.By then, we had found out the menigitis result comes back and it is negative. SO it was determined that I had mild migirane since my eye wasn't really affected and I had not been sick to my stomach or vomiting. FINALLY at 8:30 am, they bring me the bendaryl and said they'd go ahead and give me the IV med. *sigh*, knew that was going to be another 2 hours before we'd get home. 9:10 am comes and I'm officaly 10 minutes past the 30 minute timeframe, they bring the IV med. Jeff was, I would say pretty annoyed. I was STILL dealing with the headache, but not so severe as it was and the stiff neck was finally giving up... By the time I got done with my IV med and I already had gotten my discharge sheets, so off I went home! Headache was just barely there, but it was there. Jeff and I stopped by McDonalds so Jeff could get something to eat as he was starving and I did get sandwhich and fries. We get home and the dogs are going NUTS! They haven't been out since 9:30 the night before. I go straight to my bed and get comfortable with my lunch and a soda. I took a bite of my sandwhich and laid down as my stomach was little queasy. I conked out!! I woke up 4 hours later, my lunch is still sitting there and my dogs are sitting on the floor, staring at my lunch. LOL! So I finished eating that even though it was COLD, blech, but hey, it was food! I talked with my mom for good half hour via texting. Headache is just in one spot now and is almost gone completely. So Jeff and I left to pick up the boys as Jeff's parents kept them over night and kept them for the day so Jeff and I could sleep a bit. Thank goodness for them. Now, we all are at home and just gonna chill out. It's been one heck of a night. It was pretty scary last night.
Now it is time for me to get off of here and get my IV meds out for the nightly routine. I wanted to tell all the people that emailed, texted and IM'ed me last night and today. THANK YOU! I appreciate the thoughts! I'm OK, just exhausted literally....
Have a GREAT weekend!!
*Edited to add this: The doctors had said that the headaches had NOTHING to do with the implants. I've had people asking me if it was because of the implants and I can tell you, NO. Some of the comments I have recieved states that it was BECAUSE of the implants. I can tell you that much, NO it has nothing to do with it!! Given with what I had with my very first implant -- no problem at all. None of the headaches started until I started the antibotics except for Friday's, which was far more severe than the usual ones I wake up with every morning. So again, the doctors said the whole situation had NOTHING to do with the implants. So rest assured!