my lameo hospital visit

i've had a few people text me to ask how i was after my facebook post about being in the hospital on thursday so i figured i'd blog about my very unfun hospital visit. well, that morning i woke up with a weird pain in my back. it actually wasn't bad at that point and i thought i had just slept on it wrong. with a few more minutes of trying to get comfortable i realized it wasn't that and thought maybe i had to go to the bathroom.. ha! well, after my bathroom visit i realized that wasn't the case and laid back down. at this point it was getting super bad and for the life of me could not get in a comfortable position. i ended up waking up rey and told him there was something wrong with my back. i've obviously had some major back issues this pregnancy, but this was a different kind of pain and in a whole different spot. rey even offered to rub my back but the second he touched it i flinched and had to pull away since that area was super sensitive. after trying to get comfortable for a few more minutes i decided to call my doctor because i knew something was wrong. i talked to his nurse and told him my pain level was to a six and it was super uncomfortable. she then asked if i had felt the baby move that morning and i said no, but my mind had been more concentrated on the pain since i had woken up. she told me to drink some sugary juice and do a kick count and that i should be feeling up to ten kicks an hour and that she'd check up on me after she consulted with my doctor. so after i hung up i drank some lemonade and things just got worse. i couldn't sit, stand, walk, lay down and my pain level was going up! plus, i was supposed to be counting kicks and i had only felt three, but like i said, i was in some major pain and was pretty much just crying as i tried to find a comfortable position for my body to be in! i ended up drinking like 3 glasses of juice in hopes of feeling the movements, but the pain made me so sick that i ended up throwing it all up.

well, about a half hour later the nurse called and i told her things had gotten worse and that i had thrown up. she put me on hold to talk to doctor tanner and when she came back on she told me to go to labor and delivery, which to me was pretty scary to hear! it also made me realize how much i've procrastinated and how i really need to get my hospital bag ready in case of an emergency like this one. well, rey and i hopped into the car and off to jordan valley hospital we went! jordan valley is like a half hour away from my house and that was seriously one of the longest car rides ever! so stinkin uncomfortable! well, we got there and they put us into a room right away. now i warn you, i'm going to be talking about pee a lot at this point, so if that grosses you out i suggest you stop reading! anywho! they had me change into a gown and then wanted a urine sample. well, when i went to the bathroom hardly anything came out. the nurse then set me up in the bed and probably the only nice thing was that they had something hooked up to my belly to hear the baby's heartbeat and i got to hear his little heartbeat all day. they then needed to hook me up to an iv and that was freaking painful! my veins suck, and i was dehydrated so i got stuck not once, but twice in the freaking hand and that my friends is painful! actually, while they were hooking up my iv i started to pass out. it's kind of funny because as i was passing out i remember thinking this is nice! all the pain was going away and it felt like i was drifting off to sleep! well, that didn't last long because they had me roll over to my side and it brought me back! haha! they then told me it would be about a half hour until the results of all my testing came back and they'd be back to check on me then. well, things went way downhill from then because i was in so much pain and was basically just crying in the bed! on a scale from one to ten my pain was probably at a 9, possibly even a 10 at times. eventually i called the nurse to ask if i could stand up just to see if that was more comfortable. kind of pissed me off because i even had to wait about 10 minutes before she came in to help me up. honestly it didn't do much, but i'd gone through about half of the iv bag so she had me go to the bathroom and they put a little bucket in to measure my pee again, and once again hardly anything came out.

at this point i think they could tell i was in pain so they gave me some morphine. that took my pain from the 9 down to like a 4. so i was still in pain, but at that point i was happy. it was kind of annoying since it made me super sleepy, but i was still in pain so i couldn't get myself to fall asleep. then the real fun started since they decided to put a catheter in me to measure how much urine i was producing in an hour. not one of my proudest moments in life, but i figure when i have the baby it will be worse so i should just get used to it. after a bit they had an ultrasound lady come in and she looked at my kidneys, and holy crap that was painful on my side that was hurting! plus, i had to take deep breaths while she did it and it hurt super bad to take in deep breaths. she even did something of my bladder and it had been about 45 minutes since i last went pee and she couldn't see my bladder at all, despite the fact that i'd just gone through a full iv bag. which now that i'm thinking on it, i think this was the reason i got the catheter, so just switch that around cuz i'm too lazy! ha!

basically, i was producing hardly any urine and they said i was making like 30 something, when i should be making 50 something. they said a really dehydrated person not drinking anything would probably produce 30, and here i was with these iv bags pumping me with stuff! basically just a bunch of testing and nobody had any idea as to what was wrong with me. and poor rey, since we left in a hurry we didn't bring anything to keep him occupied and about halfway through the visit his phone was dead, but he was a trooper and a really good support for me. at least he got to eat though, he went down to the cafeteria and got himself some grub, but i was only allowed to drink clear liquids. although, around 7:30 they said my doctor cleared me to eat something so i got really excited, and you know what they brought me? like 6 little packs of saltine crackers! i hadn't eaten anything all day so at that point i just took it and was grateful. however, my pain was once again starting to come back, and made it's way up to about a 7 or 8. the nurse said that he wanted to try and have me take some oral medication and so they gave me some percaset or however it's spelled and let me tell you, that was amazing!! within ten minutes i felt no pain whatsoever. not only did i not feel my back pain, but every single pregnancy ache and pain was gone.. i felt normal again! finally at about 9:45 the nurse said that since the medicine was working and i had produced a little more urine that was good to go, but if it came back really bad to go back to labor and delivery, and if it was just kind of bad to go to doctor tanner's office and he could give me a prescription and just to drink lots of water. they really had no answers as to what was wrong with me since all tests came up inconclusive, but their guess was maybe that i had passed a small kidney stone. so who knows! i do know that all that water that they pumped into me came out that night since every half hour i was up that night going to the bathroom!

now, i'm just drinking tons and tons of water in hopes that whatever that was doesn't happen again. i do get freaked out occasionally since every so often i can feel my kidney start to ache again, but luckily nothing like the other day so i'm just hoping it stays like that because i do not want to go through that again! well, that's my update and i hope it didn't gross you out too much!