The Day My Life Changed Forever
Hi Everyone!
So I'm trying this "blogging" thing out! I will be keeping friends and family up to date here on my health. I feel some people probably don't want to look at it on Facebook, and this way if you want to know how I am doing, you need to come read to find out! So, for my first "blog" I will start way back from the beginning just incase some don't know what exactly is going on.
On the weekend of August 9th, I was camping with my parents in Osseo, prior to this for several weeks I hadn't been feeling the greatest, but had decided it was probably allergies. On August 10th I was supposed to work night shift at Cumberland Hospital so I went home from camping, still not feeling well I went in to get a rapid strep test done, thinking maybe I had strep throat. This came back negative. I was cut from work due to low census, so I went home and slept. Sunday the 11th I slept most of the day (thinking I would have to work that night and feeling even worse). Bud came home from playing softball and was working outside, and I went out and told him I was going to run to the dollar store to get some different medicine, hoping this would work. The time now was probably about 4pm. I called into work sick, knowing I was in no condition to go into work at a hospital. When I started driving I realized I was starting to have a hard time breathing.
This is when I just kept driving and drove right past the store and went straight to the emergency room here in Cumberland. After I got registered I walked to the emergency room, and before anyone even saw me, the doctor on call heard me breathing walking down the hall and came right to me to help me into a room. The questions began as I was quickly hooked up to get vital signs and what not. An IV was started and I then asked the nurse to call my mom to come in, knowing things weren't looking great. That's when I start to not remember much. I know they told me my throat was closing and that I was going to have to be intubated and transferred out. I asked that they called my boyfriend to come in. I was scared, literally scared to death. I've seen this procedure done a ton of times, but when it's you, it is completely different. At one point things were going so bad so fast that the doctor actually wanted to put a mark on my neck where he may have to put a trach. I screamed...very loud.
The helicopter crew arrived and they intubated me. I was flown to Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire. This all happened within a matter of probably 2 hours.
So I'm trying this "blogging" thing out! I will be keeping friends and family up to date here on my health. I feel some people probably don't want to look at it on Facebook, and this way if you want to know how I am doing, you need to come read to find out! So, for my first "blog" I will start way back from the beginning just incase some don't know what exactly is going on.
On the weekend of August 9th, I was camping with my parents in Osseo, prior to this for several weeks I hadn't been feeling the greatest, but had decided it was probably allergies. On August 10th I was supposed to work night shift at Cumberland Hospital so I went home from camping, still not feeling well I went in to get a rapid strep test done, thinking maybe I had strep throat. This came back negative. I was cut from work due to low census, so I went home and slept. Sunday the 11th I slept most of the day (thinking I would have to work that night and feeling even worse). Bud came home from playing softball and was working outside, and I went out and told him I was going to run to the dollar store to get some different medicine, hoping this would work. The time now was probably about 4pm. I called into work sick, knowing I was in no condition to go into work at a hospital. When I started driving I realized I was starting to have a hard time breathing.
This is when I just kept driving and drove right past the store and went straight to the emergency room here in Cumberland. After I got registered I walked to the emergency room, and before anyone even saw me, the doctor on call heard me breathing walking down the hall and came right to me to help me into a room. The questions began as I was quickly hooked up to get vital signs and what not. An IV was started and I then asked the nurse to call my mom to come in, knowing things weren't looking great. That's when I start to not remember much. I know they told me my throat was closing and that I was going to have to be intubated and transferred out. I asked that they called my boyfriend to come in. I was scared, literally scared to death. I've seen this procedure done a ton of times, but when it's you, it is completely different. At one point things were going so bad so fast that the doctor actually wanted to put a mark on my neck where he may have to put a trach. I screamed...very loud.
The helicopter crew arrived and they intubated me. I was flown to Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire. This all happened within a matter of probably 2 hours.
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