Gosh what a roller coaster I've been one the past few days. It was great being home over last weekend, but when I got back to SPU everything was kind of haywire. It's the last week of school before finals so that was kind of to be expected, but Monday I had huge test that I didn't spend much time studying for...thought I failed it. Then Monday evening Tori (roomate) starts feeling sick...she spends all of tuesday and wednesday bed ridden with the flu. Poor baby :(, it was so hard cause she was so helpless. Low and behold...Wednesday were out watching TV at a friends sisters place...and I start feeling really sick. Wednesday night I go to bed feeling pretty awful and dont get a very good night's sleep. I wake up on thursday morning feeling like I had been run over by a semi truck. It was AWFUL. So thursday and friday I spent all day in bed..doing absoluetely nothing and feeling like death on a stick. Saturday rolls around and I wake up thinking...I'm gonna get some dayquil so I can feel a bit better, roll out of bed...and...wow my neck reallly hurts. Not just an ache..it is in awful pain. I proceed to the drug store...trying to get a hold of my mom and am not successful till I finally get to safeway. I call her and tell her and she asks..."can you touch your chin to your chest?" at this point I'm in so much pain its impossible to do that, she says..."you need to go to the ER RIGHT NOW"...and of course I get all emotional and scared cause she's freakin out!
I proceed to the ER with my dear friend Janie...she's an ANGEL. She takes care of me and gets me checked in and everything. I explain to them whats going on and how my mom thinks I might have menengitis because my neck is so stiff. They take a few blood samples and tests...and give me drugs. Oh the drugs :) Man was I feeling great! Meanwhile my mom is still scared out of her mind...and all this time I just wanted to avoid having to get a spinal tap. Turns out, they don't think its menengitis (PTL), looks like a bad muscle strain that seems to have affected my whole neck and head. While I'm in the ER my mom decides to fly up to Seattle, bless her heart...it was JUST what I needed. She takes me to her hotel room while I'm all drugged up on muscle relaxers and vicodin and takes great care of me. Granted my neck still really really hurts, at least I dont have menengitis. Story goes she had every right to worry because she had a patient come in this week saying that there was a menengitis outbreak at her school with people who had all ready had the vaccine. Anyways...
Today I'm feeling a lot better. The flu symptoms are finally going away, but my neck is still in a lot of pain. And my momma just left..but it was so good to have her here. I love her so much! And I'm excited to go home for Spring Break in 3 days :D
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