On Tuesday night, Emily went to bed early, feeling run down. At 12:30 the next morning, she woke me up with a bloody nose. She was losing a lot of blood, but we were attempting to get it to clot. Then, she started complaining of acute stomach pain, radiating from her belly button.
So, I had to wake Billy, and he helped her with the nose bleed while I gathered things for our trip to the ER.
Luckily, before we loaded up, she was able to stop the nose bleed, so now we were only dealing with the tummy pain. At the hospital, she was running a fever, so they gave her some Tylenol in triage to help bring down.
By the time we got a room, she was feeling better.
Feeling not good:
Feeling good*:
So, at this point she had no more pain, and no more nosebleed. They tested her for Flu, and guess what... she had flu A!
They ran a few other tests to rule out appendicitis, but since the acute pain had subsided, they didn't order an image.
Checking the time, so see what show would be on next.
Finding out that cable is nothing like Netflix.
At around 5:30 she was finally discharged. We stopped by Walgreens to pick up some Tylenol & Advil.
We got home sometime after 6, and I had to check out for at least a little while before taking the big kids in to school. Since she was not cleared to return to school until Monday, the two of us came home to sleep. The twins were soooooooo good. They had a second breakfast, then came up with us and quietly watched their tablets while I tried to recover some of my night's lost sleep.
Emily kept her fever under control with lots of medication the first few days, but we slowly tapered it off. We had a low key weekend, and she was good to go Monday morning.
I'm so glad it wasn't anything more than the flu. At least the flu went away.
later days
*yes, these were taken second apart.
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