not dead yet...

Sorry Ive been MIA. I had an angry ovary last week...that's what Im calling it anyways, because it sounds cooler. I have been down and out since 7-10 til today. That's a long ass time. I don't like when weeks disappear without an explanation. I started having left lower quadrant pain on friday night after an evening of skinny dipping and mexican food at my friend, Carrie's, house. I chalked it up to gas. Not so lucky. After not moving from the couch for 2 days and using up my last vicodin left over from my hysto, I broke down and called the doc on monday morning. I refused to go to the ER...too many horror stories (from ER nurses) about nurses that think it's funny to be rough with young women that come in with "female pains." They automatically chalk it up to an STD and treat you like a used whore...no thanks. My doctor was shocked when I told him why I refused to go to the ER. He ordered me a CT scan...yay. I threw up, shit, and pissed on the machine...that's what you get when you put contrast into every orafice of my body. I was praised on my projectile vomit. Im a pro. Tuesday back to the doc for my results...he had heard about the vomitting, thought it was funny. I still didn't. They found an abnormality on my left ovary. They scheduled me for an US with my GYN...for this morning...yeah, that didn't happen. Thursday evening we headed to the hospital when I was doubled over in pain. I didn't have the tolerance to drive the 25 min to Firelands (the good hosptital) and had to settle for Bellevue ER. Sucky. I had to scream at the girl behind the counter for a nurse NOW becuase she expected me to wait...I was curled up on the floor...I don't do that, ever. The nurse saw me from behind the double doors and ran over to me and yelled at the receptionist for not calling her immediately...bitch. I was immediatly shot up with some pain killers...did nothing. 3 shots later I got some relief. Long story short, I got transfered to Firelands becasue the Bellevue doc didn't want to do anything and didn't think my past history of cancer was a good enough reason to order a stat US. Firelands did. So I got the lovely wand up the hoo-haa and lots more pain meds. I have an extremely high pain tolerance. Im talking, I dislocated my patella and ruptured my ACL when I was 16 and calmly replaced my patella and walked across the football field to our ortho on the sideline and said something was messed up. I am not a fan of pain meds. I was during this hospital stay. So the US showed a 6cm (that 2 1/2") cyst in my ovary that had ruptured. I guess that is uncommonly large. I was finally able to control my pain by oral meds on friday evening so I was able to get discharged. Unfortunatley there is nothing you can do about cysts except to let them run their course. That just sucks. Im ready for my female parts to stop giving me shit and getting "angry" with me...grr. Thanks to everyone that was concerned. I appreciate it! I owe Lora a call, which I plan to do on my hour drive home from work today!!!! Im excited! But I am glad to be feeling better...