Yup. I’m back in the hospital. I’m in Springfield’s own St. Johns hospital. Apparently something is wrong inside me that made me bleed insane amounts of blood. The doctors can’t seem to figure out what is wrong w/me right yet. I’m not aloud to eat anything. So far I’ve only gone two days without anything to eat. I’m not a big fan of not eating. Oh well. On top of crazy bleeding I’ve managed to put a couple cuts on my face right below my left eye. The nurses ‘were’ letting me walk to the bathroom until I blacked out and collapsed (twice). Apparently my face met the floor pretty quick. What can you do? I guess I’m in here without bail until Tuesday before they will even figure out what is wrong w/me since no doctors seem to be here to do anything about my situation. I’ve already undergone a lot of tests. (CT, Radioactive blood trace to find where I’m bleeding internally, lots of blood tests, urinalysis, and more) They have not figured out what is going on or if it has a direct association to my appendectomy last week. I’m sick of hospitals. I’m going to turn evil if I don’t get to eat anything for three or four days.
Oh yeah. A new law was passed. I’m not sure if it’s just Missouri or what but no Hospital in-patient is aloud to smoke. I’m prescribed the patch. Hoorah.
Life sure has its ups and downs.
Friday I drove to Butler County Courthouse to oversee a recount. Essentially I just sat there and answered questions about the vote tabulators as they came up. As 11 O’clock came around I started to get what I thought were some viscous hunger pains so around 11:30 I took a quick 15 minute break to get a Sonic chili cheese dog and chili cheese fries. After I ate lunch the pains got significantly worse. I thought it might be the food since my body rejected it on me twice. It never hurt so bad to throw up in my life. I somehow managed hiding the fact I was really sick until about 3:30pm when I told the Judge, Clerk, and some other County officials that I had to go and asked for directions to the hospital.
I checked myself into Butler Hospital and was processed pretty quick. A bunch of people saw me and pushed on my stomach which made me practically jump out of my bed. They all said I had suspicious signs of appendicitis. They made me drink a few glasses of red dye and hooked me up to an IV of saline solution. It wasn’t long before I got a CT scan. Shortly after the CT scan my nurse came back in to the room and told me I had appendicitis and had to decide where I was going to have surgery done. I was told that one of the best doctors to do this was in Lee Summit so they made the arrangements and shipped me off to Lee Summit hospital in an ambulance. I was submitted directly to surgery. I met my surgeon, Norman Mutchnick, M.D. as I was being prepared for surgery. Not 30 minutes after I got there I was in Surgery having my worthless appendix removed. Zippy was at the hospital as they were wheeling me out of surgery and took this video. I don’t remember this video being taken so I can only assume I was still pretty drugged up.
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All I have to say is if having my appendix removed is minor surgery, I don’t ever want to have major surgery done. My stomach and right shoulder hurts like hell. Apparently there is still air inside me from the surgery so I’m just waiting for it to pass and then I should feel better. It seemed crazy to me that I woke up Friday absolutely fine. I checked myself into Butler Hospital Friday afternoon and was undergoing surgery Friday night at Lee Summit hospital. After all that I walked out of the hospital Saturday afternoon. I guess my next battle will be with my insurance company. Joy.
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This is the Nurse @ Butler hospital as she was walking into my room to tell me I needed to pick a surgeon.
Three holes. That’s it. It’s supposed to be the least painfull way to go. I’m just lame.
Stubby was talking a lot of shit last saturday (as he occasionaly does when he gets drunk) so I ordered a set of huge (16oz) boxing gloves so we could beat the crap out of each other in a relatively safe manner. The gloves were delivered yesterday so after drinking half a case of beer we went out and fought. I didn’t realize how much we seriously suck at fighting. Practice Practice Practice.
After Stubby & I got done releasing some tension Zippy stepped up to the plate and beat the crap out of me. Damn it’s fun.
I’m trying out a new ‘thing’. Zippy has been dieting and being healthy and what not so I figured drinking a lot of carbonated high fructose corn syrup was something I might ‘quit’ doing to be .01% healthier. In general I’d drink 6+ cans (72oz+) of soda a day if I didn’t run across a fountain drink. I think it’s that Hardee’s medium fountain soda that’s 32oz or something crazy like that and since I drive a lot I would get one of those quite often. It just can’t be good to inject large amounts of the smallest section of the Food Pyramid on a regular basis. I think I’m going to let my insulin level drop for a while and see what it does for me. I cut off from drinking a ‘lot’ of soda quite some time ago. For the last week or so I’ve been on this ‘no soda’ kick. I never thought drinking a lot of water would be so satiating. There are so many high quality alternatives to Pepsi, coke, or my favorite, Dr. Pepper that there seems really no reason anyone should flood themselves with the stuff.
Do you drink a lot of soda?
My breakfast this morning. Health is obviously my #1 concern. hahaha. What could be a better breakfast at 5.am?
