bellus quies's Journal: Nearly Hospital Free in 2006

Yep, I almost made it an entire year without going to the hospital after last years recurring theme of getting stuck in there.

Last Thursday (12/7) I had some tortilla chips with dinner. After going to bed feeling a bit sick to my stomach, at 1:30am I woke up nauseated and ended throwing up. For the next 5 hours. That's right I puked constantly for 4 hours, decided to check myself into the ER and vomited for an hour more until the IV started to work.

My throat is still healing from that acid bath. Not fun. But I can tell the different colors of vomit. And that after the food is out, and after the light yellow bile, about 4 hours into it one goes into a phase where it's a dark greenish brown.

So no more tortilla chips for me. Now I'm relegated to annoying the wait staff with my requests for a side corn tortillas to help satiate my need for salsa.

Oh and the kicker to the whole story. The doctor at the ER told me I had a urinary tract infection. Huh?!? Sure, throwing up for hours because of bacteria down below. I don't think so. (And no it wasn't just happenstance and conccurent. I wasn't having any problems, eveyrthing was normal down there.)