A fun day at the Urgent Care facility and the emergency room....

Probably for the price of a week in Hawaii or some such fun place I spent the day at Urgent Care and an evening at the Emergency Room. If I had it to do over I would have just stayed in bed that day and hoped for the best...then used the money I would have saved by not going to the Urgent Care and Emergency Room and and used it to go on a trip to anywhere except the Urgent Care and Emergency Room and probably Haiti! I woke up with stomach pains that I figured would go away since a few weeks earlier I had the same kind of pains and they did go away. Unfortunately they did not go away and they got worse as the day went on. When it got to the point that I couldn't walk or stand up straight I decided to call the Doctor. My doctor was booked so I ended up having Christy take me to Urgent Care. I didn't feel confident to drive or walk all the way from the car into the doctor's office. I got a really nice doctor who took good care of me but could never figure out what was wrong. She did blood work, had an ultra sound done and kept me all day in bed with an IV and wouldn't let me eat or drink. When all the results came back OK she sent me home and told me to go to the emergency room for a CT scan if the pain was still there by 10:00 p.m. At 9:30 she called me and told me to go to the hospital and she would call there. When I got there they put me on another IV, did more blood work, an EKG and a CT Scan...again normal results. When they decided they had made enough money on me without a diagnosis they sent me on home after finally giving me something for the pain. I went home and woke up feeling just fine! I don't know what kind of cruel joke my body was playing on me but I hope that it won't do it again. The final insult will be a scope they want to put down my throat to see the last piece's of my body that they hadn't probed and taken pictures of. I am supposed to have that in Feb. sometime...if I follow through with it. I am fine and the pain has not come back so we will see. Christy had her phone and wanted to take a picture before she headed off to work...the smile on my face is fake!