My Stay In The Hospital

For those of you that might have noticed that I vanished (Sean, I know you did): I was in the hospital. On Monday the 16th, around 2 PM, I felt weird—like a hot flash but worse. It went away. Then, around 5:15 PM, it started again, I went to the bathroom--and threw up a toilet full of blood. I think I tried to call for Mom (doesn’t matter, since she was nearby and heard me) and then I fainted. I’m told the reason for that was because my iron level went from 13 down to 6 or 7 in about 2 seconds.

The ambulance hit every pot hole known to man in the 3 minutes it took to get to the hospital. The poor EMT nearly fell over twice.

Either Mom or Dad stayed with me the entire time I was in the hospital, in shifts, since with all the tubes, I wouldn't have been able to reach the nurse call button from where it was located.

( Bleeding ulcer causes a hospital trip )

I'll post more about what happened as I think of it.