- Oct 9, 1999
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Its true, the damn thing tried to kill me, sneaky bastard, lulled me into a false sense of security by laying low for 35 years and then BOOM!!
Actually I had been having what I thought were back spasms about once a month for the last four months, the pain was always in the same place in my back and felt like a severe muscle cramp, and they always went away after a few hours, until this past saturday night/sunday morning that is
just after midnight saturday
It started out the same as usual, pain in my back, no biggie I thought, it will go away in a couple of hours
around eight a.m. sunday
and it did, but only for an hour or two and then it was back, and it brought friends! the pain was now consuming my chest and ribcage area on my right side
on and off throughout the day on sunday until about six a.m. monday morning when it got serious, I made a doctors appointment, but it was not until two p.m.
around ten a.m. monday I got my wife to take me to an urgent care center, I was in bad shape, I was pale and sweating and holding my chest, they thought I was having a heart attack (at least I didnt have to wait in line
)
They poked and probed and took xrays and told me to go to the emergency room
I dont remember much after that, lights flashing by on the ceiling as I was wheeled down a hallway, a doctor saying something about laporoscopy may not be possible because of gangrene, a lady saying "you are going to start feeling a little different" thats the last thing I remember until I woke up
They did do it laporoscopically (<<word?) and they said it was gangreneous too and that it broke on the way out so they had to keep me for an extra day to pump me full of antibiotics
So, now I have a half shaved chest/stomach with four incisions about an inch to an inch and a half long with these nasty looking metal staples holding them closed.
On the plus side, I got a whole bottle of these neat little blue pills
Actually I had been having what I thought were back spasms about once a month for the last four months, the pain was always in the same place in my back and felt like a severe muscle cramp, and they always went away after a few hours, until this past saturday night/sunday morning that is
just after midnight saturday
It started out the same as usual, pain in my back, no biggie I thought, it will go away in a couple of hours
around eight a.m. sunday
and it did, but only for an hour or two and then it was back, and it brought friends! the pain was now consuming my chest and ribcage area on my right side
on and off throughout the day on sunday until about six a.m. monday morning when it got serious, I made a doctors appointment, but it was not until two p.m.
around ten a.m. monday I got my wife to take me to an urgent care center, I was in bad shape, I was pale and sweating and holding my chest, they thought I was having a heart attack (at least I didnt have to wait in line
)They poked and probed and took xrays and told me to go to the emergency room
I dont remember much after that, lights flashing by on the ceiling as I was wheeled down a hallway, a doctor saying something about laporoscopy may not be possible because of gangrene, a lady saying "you are going to start feeling a little different"
thats the last thing I remember until I woke upThey did do it laporoscopically (<<word?) and they said it was gangreneous too
and that it broke on the way out so they had to keep me for an extra day to pump me full of antibioticsSo, now I have a half shaved chest/stomach with four incisions about an inch to an inch and a half long with these nasty looking metal staples holding them closed.
On the plus side, I got a whole bottle of these neat little blue pills
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