Date: 2006-05-31
From: daleville!

To: er
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: few clouds

no this photo does not go with today, but i want to put these up, so deal.I woke up today around 6am. Sleeper thought we should get the free breakfast and then go back to sleep. When i was walking to breakfast my lower back hurt really bad, it was making it hard to walk. I figured i slept wrong. While we ate my jaw was shaking a little weird. The lady at the front desk told me i looked really sore. I did! I took some ibuprofen and went back to sleep. It was hard for me to get comfortable and my knees started to hurt too. When i woke up at 1230 i felt funny, but better. I was laughing and hangin out. Merlin, wolf paw, natty boh, 42 and lush all showed up. they hiked 10 yesterday and 10 in today. They said they were hot and tough days. I was glad i didn't have to hike today! We all went out to lunch. At lunch i started to not feel good again. Didn't feel like talking, eating, siting..My jaw started to shake again. And then my back started to hurt. I had to leave and go back to the room. I almost could not walk back. I called my sister and told her to read from the internet the signs of lime disease. I had every symptom. Sore joints, head ache, fever, tired, and neck stiffness. I was shaking under my sleeping back and blankets. Wolfpaw and natty had been keeping thier stuff in our room, they came in and tracked down sleeper. He came and started to call this guy del who left his number at the front desk, as a trail angel. He called homer and Theresa who came to my room to take my temp. At this point i felt a little better, my temp was 101.4 We all decided it would be cheaper for me to wait until the clinic in the morning. They gave us a cell number and said they were across the street at a cookout of we needed them. For the next 45 minutes i laid there shaking and crying everything hurt. I didn't think i could make it through the night, i just wanted to sleep. Sleeper called them back, they came and took us to a clinic they said i was too sick and i should go to the ER my temp was 99.5. i was having trouble breathing, my arms were going numb, i was hot and cold, shaking, and sore. I felt like a baby what is wrong with me! I wanted to make it stop. I must just have the flu or something i didn't want to go to the er. Sleeper had to push me in a wheel chair and at check in i started to get worse. Sharp pains in my lower back/side more shaking crying,pain pain pain, i felt like i was going to throw up as we sat in triage, people where staring at me, i felt so stupid. I am with strangers, i have never felt this way, i can't stop the tears, my jaw is shaking a mile a minute, i want to throw up, go to sleep, make it stop.The triage nurse starts to ask whats wrong... what isn't wrong? He takes my temp 103.8 in 40 minutes since the clinic it jumped from 99 wow! I was taken right in. I am really sick, this is scary. They take a bunch of blood and try to start and IV. Sleeper holds my hand as one of my veins burst. It hurt so bad and she tried again on my wrist, this one hurt even worse! Now i am just sobbing in this hospital bed, everything hurts and now even worse! Why is this happening to me? I was fine yesterday. I should have been hiking today, i came into town for sleeper not me. What is going on. IV #3 works and they start to give me fluid. They tell me i have a kidney infection and have to stay over night. The ER Dr offers to take sleeper back to the hotel. He hates hospitals i felt so bad that he was even there with me, had to see me like this, and deal with the stress of it all. I finally get to my room at 2am. I am tired and still in pain and just want to sleep. I have never been this sick, never had to be admitted to the hospital as an adult. I take care of people, not the other way around. I worked in a hospital for 6 years, this is weird. I don't want to stay here, and at the same time i am glad they know what it is. In a way i thought they would say i had the flu go home, and then i would feel stupid for crying and acting so bad. But now in a way i feel it was ok, because there really is something wrong with me. sleep sleep sleep......