So they pumped more fluids and meds into me (I continued to throw up despite the nausea meds...to the point I started bringing up bile because there was just nothing left...that was painful), and sent me home with lots of meds (antibiotics on the off chance it was bacterial, because we needed this gone, two nausea meds that way I could rotate them and take them more often - instead of just taking a single Zofran every 4-6 hours, I had Zofran, then Phenergan 3 hours later, then another Zofran 3 hours after that...that way I also stood a better chance of having relief if I threw one up - and Vicodin for pain, which I pretty well held off on because narcotics make me nauseated and I didn't really need any more help throwing up or feeling gross).
Felt better once I started keeping food and fluids down again. But about 10 days later, I'm still having a bit of a feeling that my gut is inflamed/irritated.
But, all that said, feeling so much better now.
TMI incoming (poo talk, you've been warned)
But the antibiotics and funky diet really upset the flora in my gut, which led to a week of frequent poo, and very soft sticky poo. Which has led to hemmoroid flare ups that itch and burn, and very raw skin around the same area. I had been using over the counter hemmoroid cream for comfort but the constant moisture was making the small area of raw skin much larger and much more irritated. So I stopped, took a pseudo Sitz bath (I don't have the basin, so I parked myself in a shallow lukewarm bath with Epsom salts), used a pH balanced cleanser specially made for peri-anal care, made sure everything was dry, and put cornstarch on my butt (glamorous). It was doing better, but it's been warm out, and as my body does prefer the warm temps to the cold, I've been getting some sunshine time in, which leads to more moisture in areas where skin touch, and then to the raw area finally peeling and bleeding a little.
All in all, I really just wanna walk around a cool house naked all day with cornstarch in my crack. Can't do that, but if anybody knows diligent backside care, it's a nurse assistant, yes? I've gotten over this in the past, I can do it again!
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So, next day here. I was in SOOOO much pain last night I couldn't keep going. That's been an issue for the last couple days. I wake up feeling a little achy, and by the middle/end of the day, I'm in so much pain I don't know what to do. I did take Vicodin the first night, but then I wound up with a headache after the pain was gone (narcotics are contraindicated in migraine sufferers, it was bound to happen). I didn't want to take more narcs last night so I popped a few advil and stretched out in a nice cool bed (window open, naked, cool sheets...it helped....while cold isn't usually soothing for me, this wasn't a shocking cold and it seemed to calm the burning sensation I was having in my muscles and joints, plus just laying down hurt, since I had been sitting up and fighting it for so long).
Hate pain days. I'm hoping some light activity and going to bed earlier tonight will help, since I have to work Thursday and Friday (still on light duty from a sprained/dislocated hand).
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I'm planning to move back home. I really don't like the idea of moving and starting over with so many things yet again, but I need my family and friends and support that I just don't have here. So I've talked to my mom and we're going to look into housing and jobs and things. And I'm looking at a different degree program. I think part of the problem with my lack of urgency to finish this one is because I don't actually think I can physically do it. I could know the info inside and out, but that wouldn't compensate for the fact that spending multiple days on my feet for 8-12 hours and still having to keep up with homework and a regular job. So I am looking for something that would be less physically taxing that would help me out financially (I won't be a computer programmer millionaire or anything, but a certificate in billing/coding would at least provide me with close to twice as much per year, and I could still decide I like something else later and continue my education further for that).
For now, that's all I have. Trying to figure out money and houses and jobs and all kinds of messy stuff.
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