Much Better

I stayed home from work today. The medicine from the CAT scan we still working its way through my systems so I thought it would be better if I was home. Overall I feel fine, no more pain and no other issues. I'm going to stay away from fatty foods for a few days but other than that I'm good to go.

Sunday Fun

I was playing a computer game on Sunday afternoon at around 3:00pm when I got a bit of a pain in my chest. It moved from there into my abdomen and got a lot worse. I ended up curled in a ball on the floor in about a minute after it started. After that came the sweating, I went from dry to drenched in about 30 seconds. After about 15 minutes of that I called 911 as it wasn't letting up.

By the time I got to the hospital I was feeling considerably better. They hooked me up to the heart monitor and whatnot. The docs were checking to see is I had a heart-attack. I didn't. I was there for about an hour before the pain was gone. The monitored me for another hour before it all came back. Defiantly not a good night.

I got my first dose of Morphine and things got better, but I still had a nice dull pain in my abdomen. They were concerned that it could be my gallbladder or my appendix. The pain got all kinds of worse again about 5 minutes after I had my x-ray so they gave me a second does of morphine. I felt no pain at that point. After the shot they rolled in and ultrasound system and took a look that way. I was also drinking some stuff so I could get a CAT scan. Not bad tasting but not great either.

Nothing unusual on the x-ray or the ultrasound. I waited for an hour for my CAT scan and then another 2 hours after before I found out. Nothing was wrong with me :-) Based on the blood work they took earlier I had a high white blood cell count. Means my body was fighting an infection of some kind, but its not a specific marker for any one thing. I'm also low of phosphates which means I need to drink milk and eat more green leafy food.

At 11:00pm I was on my way home. All in all it was an, um, fun(?) night... heh. For now I have 2 prescriptions to take on an as needed bases and 1 to take daily for awhile. the daily one is for acid-reflux which is a possible cause, the others are for pain and nausea.

Chris stopped in while i was in the ER, he knew what was going on when I just left the game and didn't come back. I was texting Melissa while I was in the ER too. It nice to have some friends here to help out when ya need it :-)

Space

Mom sent me a little model of the new space capsule that will be replacing the shuttle in a few years. I took my time and put the whole thing together in about an hour. I took some pictures along the way, you can see them in my gallery.

Star Trek

Yup... The are making a new movie!!

Christmas Present

Well this Christmas I got some nice gifts. The biggest of which is my new bike. Mom was very nice and sent me a gift certificate to Walmart so I could try out the bikes there and get one tat suited me. As you can see I got a nice one. Its comfortable and lighter than my old bike.

Melissa got me a bunch of cube world people blocks. Each block is about an inch and a half square and has one digital stick person on it. The people each have their own actions, for example one is a cleaner, one has a pet, one has a ball. They all have a bunch of animations involving their own actions. The neat thing is when you place them next to each other (all four sides) they interact with each other. They climb into each others cubes and its just a fun little thing to watch and waste a few moments. I have them all at work and they keep me company during the day.