MENTAL STATUS: "Groggy". Diagnosed with pharyngitis with Strep.
You know, it is just so ME to get sick--I'm talking really sick--in the summer.
And that's exactly what happened.
Here's the lowdown:
My mom came to visit, we had a great time on the beach and played mini golf and even met up with her first cousin and her children, too, for a little family reunion type thing. I wasn't feeling great this whole time but just thought I was feeling run down because I was doing so much.
But...
1:00 AM Thursday morning: woke up with chills, fever, and aches. Took some Tylenol.
5:30AM: still feeling awful. Took some more Tylenol.
Stayed horizontal the whole day with a heating pad on the right side of my face and head. I had a sore throat just on my right side and could feel pressure near my ear and just ached so bad I felt like my limbs would fall off.
I told my mom to go home in the afternoon. I thought I was feeling a little bit better and my hubby came home early from work. But then I maxed out on Aleve and it was only 6PM, so I thought, "Uh-oh."
I texted my hubby from upstairs because I was writhing in pain and told him to call the doctor. He said ok and that he would be up in a few minutes. Well, I was so sick and in so much pain I then literally texted him "help". That go him upstairs in a flash.
We described the symptoms to the doctor and he was afraid my throat was bacterial and it would get worse and maybe obstruct my breathing so he recommend me to go the hospital.
Anyhew...in my 6 hours there they gave me two bags of fluids, a bag of antibiotics, a shot of Decadron, 2 Tylenol, a shot of Toradol and when all that still had me writhing in pain they gave me Morphine. Morphine?!
Well, it worked. :)
After getting my money's worth of drugs, I finally was discharged about 1 AM in the morning.
So now I'm finally vertical again--although I feel my bed calling me now--and the hubby is getting my prescriptions filled now.
Sheesh. What a time! (I need a shower badly)
So did I miss anything good while I was incapacitated?