The Friday before this I told my sisters that my left side was hurting super bad and I was in pain. It was such bad pain it gave me nausea, I threw up, felt fevered, and faint. I told them I thought I was either constipated or had a kidney stone, or maybe a cyst on my ovary. I woke up with a dull ache the next saturday but nothing as bad as the night before. Welcome Wednesday afternoon 5 days later i'm in the thick of it again. I'm in so much pain I can't sit still. I had to drive to get Landon and almost didn't make it home I couldn't focus on driving. I got home and had to have Brecken help me to my bed. I threw up and couldn't even stand up straight. I told Dean I think something was wrong and he told me to drive myself to the dr. I told him I couldn't drive and he said he could get off around 4:30 to help me. I then had Brecken call Steph and she said we needed to get up to the Dr. So she took me to instacare. From there they made me go over to the hospital and get a CT can. While I was getting ready to go they told me not to go home and to go back over to the insta care because they had news. I went over to the insta care and they told me 3 things were wrong. 1st: I was in a phase of diverticulitis, 2: I had fluid in my stomach from some type of infection/ rupture 3. I had some issues with my intestines overlapping into one another and with those 3 things I needed to get down to the St. George ER right away. We asked If I could go home and grab my husband and they said yes, but to hurry. We then switched Steph with the boys and Dean and I headed down to the ER. I was feeling a little better by that time but still couldn't stand up or sit still. I finally was called back and the dr there seemed not in the least worried about any of the things the other dr was. They started me on so iv's and antibiotics for the fluid/ infection in my stomach and then he told me he would suggest staying to have a colonoscopy done just to make sure everything else was okay. So I was admitted to the hospital to get the rest of my medicine so my infection wouldn't turn into sepsis and to prep for a colonoscopy. I had to fast for this procedure which wasn't a problem since I haven't really ate or drink since tuesday night. so it had already been 24 hours. Thursday they brought in my drink for the colonoscopy and I just couldn't keep it down. first off it was gross and second just setting on my stomach it just didn't like it to much. I threw it all up. I was able to keep down maybe 3 cups of it and I was hoping that was enough for my procedure. I started popping around 1:30 and I was scheduled for 3:30 they didn't think that was long enough so they pushed back my procedure tell the next day. I was pretty bummed everything was coming out clean and I should have went back. So more fasting and no drinking. day 3! I was in the bathroom form 1:30 to like 9:00 . I couldn't take a break it just kept coming and coming. I had the boys and addison visit me that day and I spent 98 percent of my time in the bathroom while they were there. It was good to see them though. Lisa sent pretty flowers which made my day. I don't get flowers so it's fun every once in awhile to get some. I woke up early (which really do you even sleep in the hospital?) it's the worst like every hour someone is coming in or something is beeping. anyway I woke up hoping to get in for my procedure. No one would help or answer when that would be finally they said 3:30 again. which then they said i might not get out of the hospital again that night because of how late they would be doing it and shift change and things. I was pretty bummed. I was frustrated and mad that I was being kept there for something that took like 10 minutes and should have been done days ago. I was also so weak and still in pain from not eating or drinking. I sent a text to dean and my sisters upset. Finally around 3:00 I was taken in for my colonoscopy. Everything went fine. They are leaving the intestines alone and hope they will fix themselves, they did see that my polyp ruptured from my diverticulitis and that my colon was inflamed, but other then that everything else looked good. So I now know what I have and how awful it is when it acts up. I've been on a bland diet the last week and am still having bathroom issues but hoping it will get better soon. Funny thing is my mom got this same diagnosis this last year when she went to the hospital for the same pain. She wasn't admitted because hers hadn't ruptured.
