<p>at 2:30 am today, after about 7 hours of almost continuous and hideously severe pain in my stomach (really my intestines, I guess), exactly like what i’ve felt in the past from intestinal obstructions, and not having been able to go to the bathroom at all (very unusual for me!), I gave up on the idea of waiting until morning in the hope that it would get better by itself. I was so scared. it hurt so, so much, for all those hours. I was afraid something really bad would happen. After all, I almost died in 2004 from this, and last summer wasn’t so wonderful either. So I called 911; and the emt’s came in ten minutes, and they they were very nice to me, and put mein an ambulance and took me to the mt. Sinai er, where i am now. helped</p>
<p>OH, Donna. I’m so sorry to hear this. I hope you feel better soon. Thankfully you’re at a good place to get help.</p>
<p>Donna I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope everything is ok.</p>
<p>Hey Donna. I hope you’re feeling better now. At least they could give you some pain killers, even if they haven’t quite discovered the problem. That was a long night!</p>
<p>they’ve been taking good care of me and giving me iv fluids i’m so dehydrated, and x-rays ahowed not a complete obtruction, and i was able to go finally a little and feel a little better it does’nt hurt so much and maybe they wont admit me and send me home later I hope so i’m worried about ziggy i was too sick to opn a can for him last night when i got home; the bad pains started on the subway. But he still has some dry food so i guess he’ll be ok for a while. i dont think i can go to work yet even ifthey sendme home; maybe tomorrow? @I 'm still in some pain and am so tired. i coudn’t sleep last night; the 30 to 60 seconds between cramps werent enough to let me go to sleep. </p>
<p>I hope if they do let me go i can find a taxi to take ,me home; all i am waring literally is a bathrobe. barefoot with slippers. and a winter coat the emt’s helped me put on because it was so cold last night. I probably will look like a mentally unstable homeless person i hope somepone stops for me how embarrassing. bye now, need to rest.</p>
<p>I’m so glad io livein manhattan again now and the emt’s wre able to come so quickly and take me to my hospital.</p>
<p>Donna, glad to hear that some relief was forthcoming. </p>
<p>Ziggy will be okay. Don’t even think about going to work! Rest.</p>
<p>I hope someone at the hospital coordinates transportation for you. Please ask for that before they discharge you. You can’t be hailing a taxi in your PJ’s!!!</p>
<p>Someday, when you are feeling better, the bathrobe and barefoot in Manhattan will make a good story. That is how our family survives - we find the “good story” in all of our medical mayhem. </p>
<p>Hang in there, Donna!</p>
<p>How frustrating and scary. Hope you are better soon.</p>
<p>And don’t worry about the kitty. We leave ours home sometimes on the weekend when we go to the lake and she does fine with the dry food. He might be a little huffy, but he’ll survive.</p>
<p>Take care.</p>
<p>So sorry, feel better soon!</p>
<p>Feel better soon.</p>
<p>Donna- I’m so sorry to hear this. I hope you get to feeling better soon. Ziggy will survive and so will you! You are such a trooper!</p>
<p>Wishing you a speedy recovery. Get well soon.</p>
<p>Donna, I’m so sorry to hear this. Sending you lots of good healing thoughts!</p>
<p>Donna, I’m praying for you. Call me if you need me and I’ll come up there.</p>
<p>Wishing you a quick and easy recovery.</p>
<p>Beaming positive energy your way, Donna.</p>
<p>You were so wise to call 911!! So many of us in your situation would have thought, "Oh, it’ll get better soon . . . soon . . . soon . . . "</p>
<p>I wish I could visit you, or bring you real clothes, or at least call you a cab.</p>
<p>Can you use the big fancy car service your law firm uses?? At least then, you won’t have to fumble with paying the taxi driver. (After all, you don’t have pockets with money in your pjs, do you?)</p>
<p>Sending good thoughts and prayers in your direction. Be well!</p>
<p>they just discharged me, so I guess I’ll find out if it’s possible to hail a taxi in manhattan wearing nothing but a bathrobe, slippers, and a winter coat. I do have my bag, with my wallet, so paying isn’t an issue. when i expressed my concern to a nurse, she said oh, don’t worry, taxis around hospitals are used to picking up strangely-dressed people. I guess i’ll see. i also hope the doorman at my building doesn’t think i’m too weird.</p>
<p>I’m not 100%, and am still having occasional stomach cramps, but the obstruction did seem to resolve itself, and i am definitely a whole lot better than i was 12 hours ago. very thirsty, since i’ve had no water, but the iv fluids helped. I am so tired, even though i slept for most of the last few hours. I am a little afraid to eat; what if this happens again? i’ll start slow. no rye bread with cream cheese just yet, for those who remember what i was obsessing about last summer!</p>
<p>in a way i feel kind of silly for having done this and made a big production and used ambulance resources, because of course, as these things tend to happen, i was able to go to the bathroom a little just as the emt people werre carrying me out of my apt and did start feeling better after that. but everyone at the hospital said i did the right thing especially given my medical history. And i did wait a very long time, so many hours, it felt like forever.</p>
<p>It’s so discouraging sometimes to have a body that’s always betraying me, to always wonder if today is going to be the day when bad things happen again. Not much i can do about it, though.</p>
<p>I’m really glad that i don’t have to tell j. about this until i’m already home, so he doesn’t worry so much. i’m also very glad my other history never came up at the hospital, for the first time in many times there. what a relief. One of many practical benefits of having had surgery. it’s hard to explain how much i always disliked having to talk about that on top of everything else, when i’m sick.</p>
<p>ok, here i go, thanks again so much.,</p>
<p>am glad that everything is improving… remember, baby steps. It took you many hours to get from feeling fine to when you ended up calling the EMTs, and it might take you several hours to get back to your old self. Go easy on yourself today.</p>