To Start my back hurts super terrible today! Nerve pain Extreme! So Tired! Even Had a Nap!
When the rhuematologist started doing labs back in 2007 I remember telling my mom that "it doesn't matter what the diagnoses is, God is in control." When I got my diagnoses of lupus via usps my parents were over 20 hrs away. It was quite a challenging day when the news arrived. I guess I went into the ER with the same idea, "whatever it is, God is in control." As I said we got to the hospital and my mom went in and came back out with a nurse and a wheelchair. The whole time I knew I needed a wheelchair but wanted to down play the severity of it even though I knew I needed immediate attention! After being in the waiting room for half an hour and filling out my paper work I was back in a room on a bed. As I was waiting a nurse was in doing my vitals when I told them I believed I had Transverse Myelitis. Things I remember : I was really thirsty, that when someone walked past my door or made a sudden movement I had an intense electric shock band across my lower back (comparisson to an electric fence by both being electrifying and spikey), and updating fb and texting people to let them know I was in the ER (please pray!) When the first Dr. came he did a sphincter test to see if I still had feeling. They said "if I didn't there would be chance of paralysis (which there was chance of anyways with the diagnoses I received.) I passed the sphincter test. I still think it's interesting that I got one done there cause the Gastroenterologist I saw later on down the road told me that "they don't do those here." Mhmm I'm sure they don't!
When the head ER Dr. came in I pretty much told him " I think I have Transverse Myelitis." And the testing did begin. I got my first ever cat scan first with out contrast and then with the contrast dye. They had to do the cat scan to see if I had masses on my brain to find out if I had MS or to eliminate it. I passed the Cat Scan PRAISE THE LORD no brain masses! Thank you Jesus! I was brought up to my room next the place I'd call "home" for the next week. That night my mom met the Nuerologist that would be taking care of me from that point on.
I'll have to get out some notes, and rack some brains before I can continue with what happened that night. I just want to make sure I get all the details in. Where's the video camera when u need it?
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalms 42:11
"LET not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me." John 14:1
When the rhuematologist started doing labs back in 2007 I remember telling my mom that "it doesn't matter what the diagnoses is, God is in control." When I got my diagnoses of lupus via usps my parents were over 20 hrs away. It was quite a challenging day when the news arrived. I guess I went into the ER with the same idea, "whatever it is, God is in control." As I said we got to the hospital and my mom went in and came back out with a nurse and a wheelchair. The whole time I knew I needed a wheelchair but wanted to down play the severity of it even though I knew I needed immediate attention! After being in the waiting room for half an hour and filling out my paper work I was back in a room on a bed. As I was waiting a nurse was in doing my vitals when I told them I believed I had Transverse Myelitis. Things I remember : I was really thirsty, that when someone walked past my door or made a sudden movement I had an intense electric shock band across my lower back (comparisson to an electric fence by both being electrifying and spikey), and updating fb and texting people to let them know I was in the ER (please pray!) When the first Dr. came he did a sphincter test to see if I still had feeling. They said "if I didn't there would be chance of paralysis (which there was chance of anyways with the diagnoses I received.) I passed the sphincter test. I still think it's interesting that I got one done there cause the Gastroenterologist I saw later on down the road told me that "they don't do those here." Mhmm I'm sure they don't!
When the head ER Dr. came in I pretty much told him " I think I have Transverse Myelitis." And the testing did begin. I got my first ever cat scan first with out contrast and then with the contrast dye. They had to do the cat scan to see if I had masses on my brain to find out if I had MS or to eliminate it. I passed the Cat Scan PRAISE THE LORD no brain masses! Thank you Jesus! I was brought up to my room next the place I'd call "home" for the next week. That night my mom met the Nuerologist that would be taking care of me from that point on.
I'll have to get out some notes, and rack some brains before I can continue with what happened that night. I just want to make sure I get all the details in. Where's the video camera when u need it?
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalms 42:11
"LET not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me." John 14:1
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