Monday sucked. I don’t even know how to adequately express the pain. But I’ll tell you that I felt like an idiot almost passing out in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. And it wasn’t the kidney pain, my chest suddenly seized up and I broke into a sweat and couldn’t see.

I was trying to deal with it myself, breathing, walking around, leaning forward… (the guy in the row of chairs across from me was trying not to stare). When I thought I was going down for sure I called up to the receptionist, who was helping someone, and told her I needed help. Suddenly, there were two nurses and a doctor by me, discussing amongst themselves where they were going to put me, because the rooms were full.

I was humiliated. But I didn’t pass out, and I’m guessing it’s because of the anxiety associated with making such a public spectacle.

So, they wheelchaired me out of the lobby into a room, gave me oxygen, put little, electronic beeping things on me to check stuff. My oxygen level was at 70%, and that was after I was feeling better. I didn’t know they could check that.

Anyway, I was prescribed an antibiotic and sent home once they were convinced I could drive safely. The rest of the day was, incredible as it may sound, worse. They didn’t prescribe any pain medication, and I was so out of my wits with pain, I didn’t even think about the fact that I should have some for several hours. I was in bed, writhing, falling in and out of sleep and sweating like a fish.

At around 6 pm, I woke up and thought to take Tylenol, slept for an additional hour, at which point I felt better enough to get out of bed and eat.

Now I have other pains, I’m tired, and I have a follow up appointment in about an hour.

At some point, I’ll have the energy to talk about our weekend. I apologize if I’m neglecting emails. I’ve had a bunch recently, between school stuff, Girl Scouts, Yahoo groups, family matters, and blog queries, I know that some have gone unaddressed. So, email again if you need something, because if you haven’t heard back from me, you’re lost in my inbox.

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