Sooo Sick and Miserable

I still haven't gotten better in weeks. I've been super nauseous, throwing up bad and switching between constipation and watery diarrhea. I have had a couple "ok" days in between but not much.

I went to see my doctor  (my actual dr and not a work in) yesterday. He put me on antibiotics even though my labs came back fine (always baffles me how they can when i feel like THIS). Hopefully it'll rid my body of some of the bacteria and I'll start feeling better.

He also finally got me scheduled for the camera endoscopy. So today is prep (yay....) and tomorrow at 7:15am I am going in to swallow the camera. I will wear a device for 8 hours and then return it. It will take a couple weeks for them to read the images but hopefully they'll be able to find out what is going on!

I think it's funny because people keep saying things about feeling bad because I am so sick. I just keep telling them, it's life for me! I can't let it get me down or I would always be down! I have learned to get used to it and I am just thankful that i don't have to worry about losing my job or trting to make it through this. It also makes me a lot more thankful for the good days or even the ok days! I feel like i have a lot more appreciation for life than most and I'm good with that. Of course, i get frustrated with all the tests and when I'm laying in bed in agony, i cry and want it to end, but at the end of the day i know I'll be ok! :)

Pillcam Day 2: Agile Patency

I went in at 7:30am to swallow the pill for the agile patency.  It's purpose is to make sure everything is wide enough and nothing gets stuck. Tomorrow at exactly the 28 hour mark, 11:40am, i have to go back for an xray to make sure it passed and isn't stuck anywhere. Then I go home and wait for a phone call with the results and to schedule a time for me to go back again and swallow the pill cam and get hooked up to the device that reads the images for 8 hours.

I knew this process was going to take about 2 days but i didnt expect a 3-4 day event. And it really makes me think, what would I do if I was working? And this isn't the only time the doctor pulls me in for these tests with unpredictable timelines. I mean think about it: i couldnt go to work during these days...or at least tell them a time i couls be there. And honestly, how many jobs out there can you just tell them I may or may not be in all week and if i do come in, i dont know what times or for how long. Ok?...yeah i don't think that would go over so well! This is my week and how it doesn't seem possible to hold on to a job during weeks like this:

Day 1: Prep day aka laxatives!

Day 2: Swallow a pill and don't eat for an additional 4 hours. ..yes i know you're starving and about to pass out but wait 2 hours before you drink anything and 4 before you eat and try not to pass out, especially if you have to go to work!

Day 3: Come back in for an xray and then wait for us to call you and then come back exaxtly when we need you to either today or tomorrow. ..hope you don't have anything to do!

Day 3/4: Once again, drive back up here (40min for me) and swallow the camera capsule and have wires coming out of your shirt and don't expect to be uncomfortable if you have to be in public aka a job and i know you have no choice because we just made you take half your week off already! Oh and good luck keeping your job after you have had to be out so often for doctor appointments, hospital stays, testing, and of course,  actually being sick. And FMLA? Yeah, you used up those days in the 1st month plus we don't care.

Ok!! My rant is over! I'm just hungry and cranky and thinking about this fun crohnie life haha. Seriously though, the procedure isn't complicated by any means! It's just time consuming the way it has to be split up over 3-4 days. It is also frustrating when you can't eat and the hunger kept you up all night and you also couldn't have anything to drink after midnight, which you wouldn't notice when you're asleep but of course that wasn't the way my night went (even after taking my ambien).

So there you are! Day 2 of the Pill cam!