listen to your body.

October 23, 2012, 03:46:41 PM

i posted this over at fep, so im sure it will be a repost for a few, but i just wanted everybody to know. if your not feeling good, get checked out.

Saturday was a weird day. The 2 days prior, my stomach just wasn't feeling right. i have been diagnosed with ibs. SO i just kind of blew it off as another day.

about mid day i had to go to my old work and drop off a part i bought, i went to get out of my truck, and had a real sharp pain. Ok. thats odd i thought. Carried on with some other stuff. Went to lunch with my girlfriend, started to get worse. I figured i'd lay down and try and rest. About 9:00 it wasnt getting any better. So, even thought i've been off of work for a week. (figuring, i have no health insurance). i went to the hospital. Hung out there, ran some xray's and what not. 3:00am sunday morning, i had found out i had appendicitis.

The good news is: my health insurance is still valid from my previous job.

bad news is: i cant start my new job i was supposed to on monday. but theres a reason for everything.

moral to the story. don't put things off. if i would have waited much longer, doctors say it would have gotten alot worse.

listen to your body.

Reply #1 – October 23, 2012, 05:31:43 PM

Wait I got 2 more why you should go if sick lol,

Sneezed and blacked out, had killer head ache.. waited a day and went to hospital, told I ruptured lining around brain and asked how long it had been. Said 2 days, was told if leaking that long probably been dead. Had spinal tap, leaked for a week. Hospital refused to patch it until it leaked for so long. Week later they patched it. Missed work for that week with no pay.

When I was 16 got told I had mono, was weak, jaundiced couldn't stand without fainting. Went into coma, whatever red blood cell count is (16-18 normal) mine was 3, woke up from coma packed in ice 3 days later, received 9 pints of blood a day, and was peeing all the red blood cells out. Lost 50 lbs in a week. Didn't have any immunities for couple years after this, which caused me to fail out of my first trip through college.
(For those interested, ^ That was an autoimmune disorder where my red blood cells where being killed off and passed through my urine, the daily dose of blood was to keep me conscience and stop the brain damage from no oxygen getting there. They fixed it by nuking my immune system with some stuff called IVIG if I'm not mistaken. I'm back to being healthy as a horse and rarely sick, from all the steroids I was on after this though I got IBS type stuff going on where my stomach hates me and has a dump valve it uses liberally)

Only times I ever really been sick in my life and only ever broke 1 bone in my body.

So in agreement with Mr. Perry, if your sick go to the doctor.