Last night I was sitting at home watching a movie with a friend when I get a text message from my friend Kristy. If you knew the history between me and Kristy you would kind of laugh in amazement at how far we have come. She has been sick since like Thursday but we all just figured she had the flu and it was hanging on. So the text says " Hey I am throwing up blood, what do you think that means?" I'm totally shocked at how non shallant she was about the whole thing. So I immediately call her and tell her she needs to go to the hospital now. She said "well it has only happened twice" I'm just shocked. I understand that she didn't want to go because the hospital around here is really not all that great. It takes them forever to do anything! So I said I would call them and see what they say then call her back. After tracking down the number I called and they said she needed to come in. Now on top of the throwing up she had a migraine from hell that would not go away. So I called her back and told her what they said. She said "okay well I will drive myself in. My mom has to work tomorrow, and Ric can't leave work" HELLO!!!! I said no you aren't, give me a few minutes and I will take you in. I went to my mom's to pick up the baby because she wasn't sleeping yet, (I forgot to mention it is 10:30 at night) and explained things to her. She said the baby was fine there and for me to just go. So off we went. We got to the Tonapah hospital and the journey began. They gave her a shot to keep from throwing up, and one for the headache, (which we told them wasn't going to work). Then the wait for the radiologist, X-ray's then an hour's wait while the contrast stuff she had to drink made it through her system. A CT scan, then more waiting. The images were sent three times before the people that looked at them finally got them, it took two hours. YAY they got the results back, now the wait for the doc to get there and a shot of Morphine to get rid of the headache. ( This one took the edge off finally) Doc says she has a bacterial infection in her small intestine, antibiotics to get rid of that, now another CT scan of her head to see why her migraine has been there for a week and won't go away. Wait for the radiologist again, then wait for the place they send the results to again. It is now almost 5:00 am. As we figured, because she has had a CT scan on her head recently for her headaches, when the results came in everything was fine, now we had to wait for doc to come in and give us discharge instructions. He gets there, goes over everything. Since her headache and nausea are not 100% gone, she gets one more shot for vomiting, a shot of Demerol and a shot of Valium for the road. We get antibiotics for the road and we are finally out of there. Now if I hadn't mentioned. I have been awake since like 6:30 the previous morning with not even a nap! It is now 6:30 the NEXT morning, and surprisingly I'm feeling fine! We make it home about 7:30 and I head home to see my kids who are already awake and ready for they're new day. Now I know this sounds like a hell of a journey, but you have no idea how good it feels to have a friend that calls YOU when they need something because they trust you that much. I feel very loved. She knew that when in need I would be there for her no matter what. I feel so good about myself that I was able to help her out when she needed someone! Oh, and Sam, sorry our movie got interrupted and you had to spend the night waiting for me to get back. I'll make it up to you I swear!!
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