When it rains.....

it pours!!
Just a quick update on the drama in our household right now. Friday night I started getting a really bad backache so I took some Ibuprofen and it went away for a few hours. Well that night I was up every three hours, popping like 3 Ibuprofen and laying on an ice pack because of the extreme pain. This happened a few months ago and it went away after 2 days in bed so I was just expecting that it was a muscle spasm or something. Well all day Saturday it just kept getting worse, I couldn't get out of bed without feeling completely nauseous, light-headed and extreme pain. So, poor Mark who is recovering from surgery and isn't supposed to lift our kids was stuck with the kids all day. Finally Saturday night I really felt like I needed to go to the ER, something just wasn't right. The Ibuprofen didn't seem to be doing anything for the pain and I just wanted to crawl out of my skin. We went in and immediately they were thinking Kidney Stones. They got me on some Morphine, which would help for like 15 minutes and then slowly the pain would come back. I had a Catscan and the Dr. told me it was actually a ovarian cyst called a Teratoma, more like a tumor. So he called my OB, they did an ultrasound and 6 hours later sent me home with meds to manage the pain and instructions to call my OB on Monday. Well, Sunday was the same, luckily neighbors took turns with our kids so Mark could get some rest too. Sunday night I really started feeling crappy and threw up a few times and was bleeding. Called the Dr. he wasn't too concerned and said it's all related but it isn't emergency because the ultrasound showed that the tumor hadn't flipped over my ovary or anything. So today I finally went to my OB and again he doesn't want to remove it yet, although it will need to be removed because he wants me to start feeling better. Also, I guess the ER doc forgot to mention that I had a kidney stone too, so that could be the reason why I am in so much pain and we don't know if I passed it yet or not because I haven't been looking for it since I didn't think that is what is was. I am also quite "backed-up" so he wants to clean me out first and get me feeling better before they do surgery. I would rather they just get the dang thing out, but whatever. So I am on a wait and see mission, still stuck in bed, still feeling like crap. I hope this isn't an indication of our summer to come.