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July 17, 2003
Ow! That's my tummy!
Sometime around the July 4th long weekend, I started getting weird stomach pains. I thought maybe it was something I ate, and then decided it was menstral cramps, or maybe an allergy to some food or something. But it didn't go away. Originally it was just vaguely in the abdominal area, but it began to localize just above my right hip. On the 16th, I finally called the doctor's office and went there for a 4pm appointment with the nurse practitioner who has been doing my annual checkups for the last couple of years.
He had a look at me and listened to my symptoms. It could be ovarian cysts, he said, or maybe appendicitus. He decided it wasn't my appendix because the onset was too long (usually that pain escalates a lot faster). He did an internal exam and gave me a prescription for an anti-inflammatory and told me if the pain got worse to go to the emergency room.
I was unable to really fall into a deep sleep that night and about 3am I got up and told my husband that he'd better quit playing computer games and go to sleep as he would be driving me to the hospital in the morning. He said we should go immediately. Beat the rush.
So we did. I had vague recollections that the local hospital was going to be shut down in the nearish future, but the flyer my husband retrieved from the junk mail trash said it would still be open for "urgent care", whatever that is. So we went there.
Posted by Nicole at July 17, 2003 04:12 PM