What a Week...and it's only Tuesday

The title says it all. The week school begins is always stressful and hectic around the Coffer house, but I believe this year tops them all to date. Let me begin back to last Thursday. I began having some very dull abdominal pain, but it really wasn't bothering me so I didn't worry about it. Friday afternoon it got a bit worse so before I left school I went to talk to our nurse. After telling her my symptoms she said it sounded like a kidney stone and told me that I should probably go to the doctor. For those of you that know me well you know that I HATE doctors so I wasn't too keen on the idea. Plus it was 3:30 on Friday afternoon so I knew I probably couldn't get in anywhere. I know some of you reading this are thinking that I could have gone to the ER or urgent care and I am fully aware of this fact. But let's go back to my dislike for doctors and you will surely figure out why I decided to not do anything about it. I told myself that if it wasn't better by Monday (which was yesterday) I might think a little harder about getting the pain checked out. I went to work Monday morning not feeling 100%, but not feeling too bad. However, as the day progressed the pain got worse and worse, but I thought I was doing a fairly good job of hiding it. And apparently I was until about 1 o'clock when the first of my co-workers asked if I was feeling okay. I told her I was just in a bit of pain and she told me to get to the doctor. Then when the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th person asked me (without knowing anyone else had asked me) if I was alright, I knew that I was know longer hiding the pain and I began to think that I needed to see a doctor. By 2 o'clock (just a span of 1 hour) I was in incredible pain! I was demonstrating a lot of symptoms of an appendicitis, so I finally broke down and headed to urgent care. I called Justin and he met me there. It was a very scary experience and I was in a lot of pain, however, the doctor I had didn't seem too concerned. After a battery of tests including a urine analysis, lots of blood work, and x-rays of my chest and abdomen, they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. I felt like the doctor thought I was crazy, but I was in tremendous pain. She decided to send me for a CT scan and then we went back to wait in the exam room. My CT scan got done at about 6, so at this point we had been there for 3 hours. For another 3 hours Justin and I sat in the room with me in quite a bit of pain and Justin starving because he hadn't eaten. Not one person came to check on me so I was not a happy camper. Finally at 9 o'clock (looking back I have no idea why we waited so long) Justin asked a lady sitting at the desk outside my door if we could get an update because no one had come to see us in 3 hours. She said she would go check and my "awesome" (please note the sarcasm) came in not 2 minutes later. She said that they had just read my results (which I don't believe for one minute) so that is why we had to wait so long. Anyways she proceeded to tell us that everything on the left side checked out okay, but that they did find an ovarian cyst of my right side. She said it would have nothing to do with the pain I was experiencing, but I wasn't convinced. She also told me that it was a pretty large cyst, but that I shouldn't worry about it. Once again, I wasn't buying a word she was saying. At this point we left the urgent care (at 9:15) and I came home and did my own research. I found out (I am so thankful for WebMd and other medical sights) that the pain experienced due to ovarian cysts tends to radiate to the opposite side (and people who have experienced this have verified this information) and that there is always a chance that they can burst and cause more trouble. Oftentimes they aren't anything serious and go away on their own, but due to the fact that I believe the doctor I saw is completely incompetent I called my OB today to get an appointment to discuss this with him because he is a competent professional who I can get some accurate information from. Unfortunately, they couldn't get me in until September 3rd, but if they pain continues I might see it they can get me in earlier. I will keep everyone posted on what I find out.

On top of my ailments, Justin hasn't been feeling well and he thinks he has a very bad cold. He didn't sleep well last night so he stayed home part of the day today and slept. So, with all the events of the past few days, we are exhausted. However, Makenna is doing good and getting sillier by the day. I hope my next post will be about her instead of me. Stay tuned!