Hello to my steem friends, I was absent for a while because last December 31st after going home from my dialysis my tummy ached, I thought that it was my tummy but it was not it came from that part which was the appendix is ill.
First I took some sodium bicarbonate thinking that it may dissipate the acid in my stomach. Then it didn't subside so I asked my dear mother to buy me some stomach ache meds which I refrained from taking because it has some Aluminum in it. Then she went into my neighbors asking for some stomach medication which I forgot the name of.
The pain didn't get any better on the night of December 31st, the whole day of January 1st because I was waiting for the pain to subside, it didn't. I had fever chills, low blood pressure, and a severe pain with my abdomen and body at the same time. Imagine all that hell I went, I am so numbed with my emotions that I couldn't cry but I was yelling in pain.
On the early morning of January 2nd I finally decided that I couldn't stand the pain anymore which is flaring up every now and then, I was yelling in unbearable pain. I rushed my parents to take me to the hospital already.
And so we went, the pain subsided but flared up after a few hours, the doctors/nurses had given me a pain medication at that point via intravenous.
I was advised to get an ultrasound but later changed to CT Scan so that my appendix could get precisely diagnosed. Then we got admitted and the surgeon came and told us that the appendix had to be removed.
My Blood pressure the whole time is very low so I have to get an IV drip of norepinephrine to raise my blood pressure which I think is coming from my infection. Then the Nephrologist of that hospital advised me to get dialyzed before the surgery while also waiting for my BP to go up.
At 4:00 PM of Saturday I had undergone dialysis which is different because they were monitoring my blood sugar and infusing blood glucose in my system to raise it up considering that I have no diabetes.
Then I went back to my room where after a while I was given half a sleeping pill which I thought that would never work but it knocked me until I woke up rolling already to the surgery room.
The last words I had heard was "Let's make you sleep" then after that I am a gonner already but I woke up before they rolled me to the recovery room. At 1:00 AM Sunday I am already back in my room.
The doctor told my parents that I didn't bleed much so there had been no need for blood transfusion and that my BP remained stable considering that it was low.
Thanks be to God that I recovered and no more brutal pain. But I am weak now and my backbone had shortened some more so I could not sleep on my side anymore. I still have to take my Parathyroid medicine but I am planning to have a parathyroidectomy until my pains have subsided.
