elbe121
Shared on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 09:27This past Easter Sunday seemed like it was going to be like any other normal Sunday. Woke up, got the paper, started to flip through the ads. My fiance wakes up, seems fine for about the first 20 minutes or so then she says she feels sick to her stomache, probably food poisoning cause she says that she taste salsa from the restaurant we ate at the night before. So she decides to go lay down before she has to head out to work that afternoon. After about an hour of her trying to rest she wakes up to a violent fit of vomiting, again it still seems that food poisoning is the likely culprite. She stays in the bathroom for a few hours praying to the porcelin god, decides that she needs to go to work, instead of listening to me. She's too sick to drive to work so her daughter drives them to work.
After 15 minutes of her being gone I get a phone call that she passed out at work and on her way to the hospital. When I get there she has started to have severe chest pains. They run test on her a cat scan and something else, I was too uptight to remember exactly what was said. All the test that they ran came back negative for any signs of a heart attack or anything wrong from her neck down to her waist from what they can tell, but the type of test she took doesn't reveil any organs so they need to keep her overnight, or something along those lines , I really cant remember. She still has some chest pains up til about 2 a.m. monday morning then nothing. Monday morning she says that her chest and stomache are very tender and sore but shes not hurting like she was.
The doctors diagnosis is vague. All they say is that they think that she had a severe stomache viral infection. They saw that she felt better and since they assumed that it was just a stomache virus that she is okay to return home. What utter crap IMO, but hey what do I know. I work with computers for a living. They refer her to a gastro intestine specialist, since they really werent too sure what caused the sickness.
I've never heard of anyone having chest pains that resemble a heart attack from a stomache virus, maybe a sore chest from vomiting put not chest clutching, dropping you to your knees pain. Finally get home late monday and as of yet she hasnt had any chest pains close to what she experienced in the hospital. Hopefully the doctors were right. But when they come in and tell you that you have a disease and that you might need to get an HIV test you kinda loose a lot of faith immediately in them when none of the test theat they ran would show any traces of what they had found. Then find out that the lab accidentally gave you the results for the patient that was in the room prior to your arrival.
After 15 minutes of her being gone I get a phone call that she passed out at work and on her way to the hospital. When I get there she has started to have severe chest pains. They run test on her a cat scan and something else, I was too uptight to remember exactly what was said. All the test that they ran came back negative for any signs of a heart attack or anything wrong from her neck down to her waist from what they can tell, but the type of test she took doesn't reveil any organs so they need to keep her overnight, or something along those lines , I really cant remember. She still has some chest pains up til about 2 a.m. monday morning then nothing. Monday morning she says that her chest and stomache are very tender and sore but shes not hurting like she was.
The doctors diagnosis is vague. All they say is that they think that she had a severe stomache viral infection. They saw that she felt better and since they assumed that it was just a stomache virus that she is okay to return home. What utter crap IMO, but hey what do I know. I work with computers for a living. They refer her to a gastro intestine specialist, since they really werent too sure what caused the sickness.
I've never heard of anyone having chest pains that resemble a heart attack from a stomache virus, maybe a sore chest from vomiting put not chest clutching, dropping you to your knees pain. Finally get home late monday and as of yet she hasnt had any chest pains close to what she experienced in the hospital. Hopefully the doctors were right. But when they come in and tell you that you have a disease and that you might need to get an HIV test you kinda loose a lot of faith immediately in them when none of the test theat they ran would show any traces of what they had found. Then find out that the lab accidentally gave you the results for the patient that was in the room prior to your arrival.
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