While I was in NY, I was having some abdominal cramps, which I chalked up to eating a lot of weird food at weird hours. But when I got home, it continued. When I went to work Thursday it started really hurting. By Friday, I felt feverish at work and when I got home from work I had a temperature of 101. Not enough to be really sick but enough to make you feel crappy.
Saturday I woke up with a very sharp pain below my hipbone and my fever was even higher. So I went to the after hours care at Kaiser.
They took blood, and the technician stabbed me several times to find the vein. After she was in there, she then started moving the needle around. It hurt so bad I almost passed out.
The Dr. thinks it might be diverticulitis but they will have to do a CAT scan to be sure. I am now renouncing my evil ways and am going to make my health more of a priority. I have taken things for granted because I am so rarely sick and have only taken one sick day since I've been editing, but I have to realize that I am getting older and need to be taking better care of myself and not making work my #1 priority.
This morning I felt better after the drug (they gave me some strong pain meds but I'm going to stick with Ibuprophen for now) and was awakened by my little cat tugging on the cotton ball taped to my arm.
We got up and I told Greg about my blood-letting experience. He gently looked at my arm and then paraphrased a BRAIN line that made me laugh:
"Look at you, being probed and not found"!
LOL!