Just a Small Medical Emergency

I know that I am a busy graduate student but more then a month between posts is a little much... but I have a really good excuse.

I was in the hospital.Ok, no not for the whole time but let me share the horrible ridiculous story.

Back in February, I suffered from a complex migraine where I had an intense aura and had trouble speaking for a couple minutes. Scary. This led to a MRI and many tests, which all led to that I'm fine and it was just a really mad migraine set off by travel, stress, and illness. But it also led to a medication. (I don't take medication because it usually does weird things to me) So Guess what? I reacted with heart palpitations and extreme anxiety. This led to the ER, and another medication which shot my heart rate up to 180... Not good.

All in all I was ok after this joyful medication experiment, but this is not the end of the story.

I had residual problems with my heart rate after this incident, my pulse was set off by everything. Caffeine, Stress (In grad school...never), and activity. This led to more doctors visits and you guessed it, more medication.

The week before finals I was given two new medications to help with my heart rate. I have never been so sick in my life. So after not eating or sleeping for 3 days I was back in the ER at 2am. This put me on the Medication/ER merry go round for the next couple days. Who would have guessed that piling up medication on top of one another would be bad?

Luckily, my friend Kayla came to help me after my 3rd trip to the ER. So when the worst of the reaction hit she could call an ambulance... and my mother.

When I woke up Monday morning I was in the Hospital, still disoriented and confused about the ordeal. Thank goodness my mom made had made it up from Idaho, since we all need some mama love when we are sick. I spent the next two days sleeping and recovering, medication free, since we now know I don't tolerate almost any medications well.

As you might have guessed though, I did miss my finals. Nice to be in grad school though, they kind of want you to do well, so I'm making them up currently.

When I left the hospital, my mother whisked me away to Idaho for a couple days to spend time with 3 of my siblings. Chad, who was also in Idaho for spring break and dying of worry, was then able to bring me up to Spokane and stay for the week with me helping me reassemble to messy life.

I'm doing so much better now! And I wanted to thank everyone for their help, love, and prayers during this time. I hope that this will help answer some questions that people had. I promise I will be better about updating and no more hospital stays.