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On that note, I’ve been sick and seem to be getting sicker by the day. I have strep and a lung infection or something going on. My lungs are going snap, crackle, pop. I have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow so we’ll see what she says. So everything has been posted late. Also don’t forget to do a look for the weekly makeup challenge! Link is on the sidebar to the right. This weeks theme is Dragons.

Beware, there is blood… and lots of bitching…

Sooo. I ended up going to ER yesterday. My blood sugar wouldn’t come down. Between the withdrawal from cymbalta and the herxing from the doxy I felt like I was dying and going crazy. I wasn’t planning on going to the ER, but several people that I now hate(:h:) threatened to either call 911 or come pick me up. So I reluctantly went.

It took them 6ish hours to get my blood sugar down to 245. I had several EKG’s because my heart and pulse were going crazy. They gave me two bags of fluid, insulin and anti-nausea medication which made me sick. That photo up there? That’s after the nurse cleaned my arm up and after she took the iv thinger off to try to give me insulin through that part of the thing in my arm. Unfortunately all that happened was my blood went all over her. She wasn’t wearing gloves either. There was blood all over my arm, all over her hands and arms and all over the floor and the side of the bed. Ugh.

Anyways. I hate the hospital. My mom ended up telling the admitting nurse that I took 10 units of her insulin to try to get my blood sugar down, which resulted in the nurse chastising me about taking other peoples medications all the way to the room, thanks mom. After we got to the room I had to strip. Lucky me I thought ahead and wore my hippie dress that has no straps. Nurse gave me the XS gown… which fit like half of my body. So she had to get me a new one. Gown down. Then she tried to insert an iv and take my blood. *sigh* I hate this part, so much. She poked me once got a whole syringe of blood out but the iv wasn’t working, or something strange. So she thoroughly checked both of my arms and then tried again just above her other attempt. NOPE. So another nurse came in and she asked her to try. She got it, then inserted the iv thing extremely slow. I swear it felt like it took an hour and it hurt as much too. So she got it in and then tried to put the blood the previous nurse got into the vials except it clotted. So she had to draw a new syringe of blood, got the vials filled, got the iv going and then the dr came in.

And then my mom overloaded her mouth again and told him I’ve been LIVING on freaking muffins. *rage* I’ve had 4 muffins in the past week. I’ve literally been living on chick peas, spinach, broccoli and brussels sprouts for more than a couple of weeks. So I got lectured about living on muffins and how I need to stay away from carbs etc. Thanks mom. The doctor literally looked like he should be in my bed instead of me. They checked my blood sugar which was over 500 but I can’t remember what it was. They gave me insulin directly into my iv. I hadn’t eaten since 9am and went in at 530 I think. I asked if I could have something to drink because my mouth was so dry I couldn’t swallow. So they gave me ice chips. By 8pm I felt like I was going to puke from not eating. So they gave me the anti-nausea medication through iv and then gave me sugar free cherry jello which tasted like cherry nyquil. The anti-nausea medication? It didn’t work. Ugh. Oh they also hooked me up to the heart monitor because my mom kept telling everyone I was having heart problems and palpitations, which I wasn’t. But oh well. Around 9pm the monitor started going crazy and was doing the emergency beep thing. It kept showing my blood pressure going from normal to like 200/100 then back down and my pulse was going crazy up and down. So they brought in the ekg machine and ended up giving me ekgs 5 or 6 different times. Eventually they decided my monitor was picking up interference from something because the ekg showed my pulse at 108 when the monitor showed it at like 130. However the ekg thingy was all over the place.

They literally had me lay still for almost 2 hours while they were doing ekg’s and checking my pulse and what not because of the stupid monitor. I seriously had sticky things all over my body. Also I had to pee really bad and they made me wait for like an hour before letting me go. I think they checked my blood sugar on every one of my fingers. They actually somehow bruised my pinky from checking my blood sugar and the last nurse that took it actually put a little round bandaid on it, which Kai found incredibly funny after I got home and showed him all of my wounds and sticky things and told him what happened. I guess it was kind of funny. I’ve never had anyone put a bandaid on my finger after checking my blood before. Also people kept coming in and saying “Wow you look pale and sick”… Yeah, about that… I AM PALE AND SICK. Also every time a nurse or the doctor would come in they’d ask how my pain was and I would tell them it was no worse than usual. Then they would ask what was wrong, and I’d have to tell them I have lyme disease, then they’d be all “ohh. I’m sorry, that must suck” or “ohhh. What’s that?”. Have I mentioned I hate hospitals? Over all it was annoying and painful and I just wanted to come home. The doctor didn’t prescribe me insulin or anything. He literally told me to check in with my regular doctor, and said to use my moms insulin until I got in to see her… No “come back if blah doesn’t get better” or anything. Also my phone exploded when I got out of the hospital. It doesn’t get signal in there. So I had a bunch of text messages and Kai sent me a photo of Mochi sitting at the top of the stairs waiting for me to come home. When I got home she was still there and as soon as I walked in the door she ran down to me and wanted me to pick her up. Fumiko was asleep since it was 12:30am when we got home. But yay, Mochi missed me. Also. They wouldn’t let me take my medication in the hospital. Which sucked because my hands started swelling and hurting because I hadn’t taken my 2nd or 3rd dose of it.

I hate hospitals. Have I mentioned that? Ugh. Next time you guys tell me to go to the hospital I’m not listening! My blood sugar was back up to 524 when I woke up. My skin is still crawling, I feel like I’ve been poisoned and I feel like I’m losing my mind. My entire body feels like it’s shaking. I’m antsy and nervous and I need to do something. I’m going to try to clean. I hurt but I can’t sit here I’m going crazy. I know it’s from the cymbalta and the doxycycline. I’m herxing and having withdrawal issues. I’m glad I didn’t stay on the cymbalta. I’ve only been on it for 2 months and the withdrawals are hell. :/ I can’t imagine how it would feel to go off of it after being on it for longer. Ugh.

I have to say thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. I really appreciate it. Here’s to hoping I feel half way normal soon, and that Kai finds a good job super quick. Now I shall… Go do something before I go nuts.

I didn’t realize my hipstamatic film got changed. Stupid shakey changey thingy. So these are all dark. I didn’t realize it had changed until all the presents were opened. So poop. But at least I got photos! My mom came up and watched Fumiko open presents too! She’s still recovering from having a stent put in her main artery so she gets tired and exhausted easily. But it was nice that she was able to come up and partake in christmas presents! Now she’s downstairs resting with Willow.

So presents!
Fumiko got some nice things.

1. From Kai and I she got a Dead Tired Draculaura doll, and a Draculaura and Count Fabulous plushie.
2. From Mamoo she got a Mad Science Lagoona Blue doll and a Lagoona Blue and Neptuna Plushie.
3. From Grandma Sue and Grandpa Tom[1. They are actually Sascha's biological grandparents but Fumiko adores them and they are grandma and grandpa to her. ] in Michigan she got a cute shirt, skirt, pants and a kitty hat and mittens.
4. From Dawn she got a cute Hello Kitty plate and fork and spoon set.

So she got some nice goodies. For her birthday we got her a Starlite pillow pet[2. Which I'm seriously thinking about stealing.] and a Sweet 1600 Clawdeen Wolf Monster High doll. We’ve checked at so many stores for monster high dolls of any kind and there were none, anywhere. I found this one when I went to get a japanese beer from Kai. It was seriously the last doll and she was on sale for $22. Fumiko really wanted the Draculaura, Frankie Stein or C.A. Cupid Sweet 1600 dolls but I can’t find them anywhere in stores and their prices are jacked up online. But I’m sure she’ll like the one we got her anyways. We’ll just work on getting the other ones later. Her birthday is on the 31st, then mine is on the 1st, then Kai’s is on the 7th, and his mom’s is on the 21st I think? Lots of January birthdays. I’m still not sure what cupcakes I’m going to do for her birthday and we still have to go get hello kitty themed birthday stuff. But yeah. Today was nice.

Kai got these awesome soft, fuzzy pants from his mom and a star wars light saber chap stick that lights up. haha I got him a bloodstone pendulum and his star wars game. I got a pair of lotus earrings from his mom which are awesome and I love them. She also got us an awesome new shower head. Kai used his new phone upgrade on my phone line so he got me a white iPhone for christmas. It’s seriously awesome and I don’t know how I lived without hipstamatic. :O Santa also brought Fumiko all sorts of goodies. Hello kitty crayons, tattoos, a coloring book, a coloring thing that rolls out and you can cut off individual coloring things, hello kitty, chococat and keroppi socks and some candy. She’s been super happy and calm and sitting quietly playing with her dolls. Though at one point the Neptuna plushie was a zombie and Draculaura and Lagoona Blue had to murder her.

No christmas dinner today. It was not in our budget and I am not up to cooking all that much anymore. Kai’s been doing most of the cooking and I’ve basically been eating steamed broccoli, roasted brussels sprouts and carrots, and sauteed spinach with lemon juice. Not much is agreeing with me lately.

So yeah. It’s been a nice day. I hope everyone is having a wonderful day and staying safe! haha and now Fumiko is watching monster high.