First hospital trip.

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Well truck stuff is on hold for awhile. I'm laid up in the emergency room in the worst pain ever. Well until they gave me drugs. I don't know what hit me I just know I hurt and couldn't stand straight. At first I thought it was blood sugar. I couldn't sleep or anything. I was hot and cold at the same time. Then I walked outside and looked at some marks on my leg. I thought well shiot I got bit by a snake. Doc said no snake bite but it's sore as hell and so is the rest of my body. Now they are leaning toward appendix. Just drank the nastiest bavarium crap. About to get a cat scan and go from there.
 

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drugs are bad mmmkay. you shouldnt do drugs mmmkay. unless theyre the good ones lol. get well soon man. my mom just had he gall bladder out a few months ago. she couldnt sleep she was in so much pain. then when she doubled over because it hurt so much she went to the er. she had 2 miss diagnosis before she couldnt take it anymore. hope they. hope they get you straightened out quick
 

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I was just going to say gallblatter some of the worse pain ever and took a while to figure out.Luckiluy recovery isnt too bad and we no longer even need a gallblatter.Good luck.
 

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Well truck stuff is on hold for awhile. I'm laid up in the emergency room in the worst pain ever. Well until they gave me drugs. I don't know what hit me I just know I hurt and couldn't stand straight. At first I thought it was blood sugar. I couldn't sleep or anything. I was hot and cold at the same time. Then I walked outside and looked at some marks on my leg. I thought well shiot I got bit by a snake. Doc said no snake bite but it's sore as hell and so is the rest of my body. Now they are leaning toward appendix. Just drank the nastiest bavarium crap. About to get a cat scan and go from there.

Hope you feel better.

I had trouble like that 2 years ago. I thought it was my appendix. Turned out to be kidney stones. They went in an lazered them little buggers and all was good. Hurt bad. Breaking my neck did not hurt that bad.
 

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Well after the ct scan the ruled out my appendix. Evidently something didn't look right on the blood work and Doc said it was more than likely a bad case of cellulitis or blood poisoning. They loaded me up on antibiotics and so far my fever finally broke and alot of the pain has subsided. Except on my right leg were I had the marks it's still sore.

Thank you everybody for their well wishes.
 

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Wish you a speedy recovery

Just got out of the ER myself they think I had Viral pancreatis / enlarged liver / and pass ed a gall stone for good measure . I had the dry heaves so bad I couldn't breath and my lips turned blue . That is when they figured they should get me out of the er waiting room and into the er.
 

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I'm home now. Or atleast moms. I don't want to ever go through this crap again. This has been the worst 24hrs of my life.

Thanks again for everyones well wishes. And cbum it sounds like you were worse off than I was.

Ps. Don't talk to ugly nurses to much. They think you are flirting with them. When in actuality you are just having a little fun to ease the pain.
 

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Sorry to hear about your problems, bud. Hope you have a speedy recovery.
 

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Little update. Two days later after I got home from the er my leg turned red and wouldn't get any better with the oral antibiotics. So my doc sent me to the hospital. I then got to spend a few days in there taking antibiotics by iv. I've been home now for about two days but have done nothing but sit on my butt with my leg up. Not in any pain just bored and ready to go back to work.
 

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Doc was pretty sure it was a bad infection. He couldn't say for sure whether or not it was from a spider bite. But he and my boss (a veternarian) thought that it was a spider bite. But niether one saw it when it happened. I did some reading up on it and I'm pretty sure it was a bite with all the symptoms I had at the first of this ordeal.

Also if you have to take iv antibiotics whohoo hold on to your nuts. That sh*t was not cheap. Doc didn't tell me how much it cost until my third day there. And at that point I was like hell what's another couple thousand in drugs seeing how I had already spent no telling how much just to lay in a bed and have nurses not leave me alone.
 

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Yeah, medical stuff is way overpriced IMO. Last year, I paid almost $500 to have a doctor look at my ear and clean it out when I had an ear injection. For 15 minutes of work, that's a pretty good hourly rate...
 

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Doc was pretty sure it was a bad infection. He couldn't say for sure whether or not it was from a spider bite. But he and my boss (a veternarian) thought that it was a spider bite. But niether one saw it when it happened. I did some reading up on it and I'm pretty sure it was a bite with all the symptoms I had at the first of this ordeal.

Also if you have to take iv antibiotics whohoo hold on to your nuts. That sh*t was not cheap. Doc didn't tell me how much it cost until my third day there. And at that point I was like hell what's another couple thousand in drugs seeing how I had already spent no telling how much just to lay in a bed and have nurses not leave me alone.

Shit, Shane thats a bummer but for me you cannot put a price on health:D Glad to hear you are on the mend