A Trip to the E.R.
**This post was transferred from the now defunct "The Long Ease" blog.** Yesterday was one of those days - the perfect example of my state of medical weirdness. I woke up feeling perfectly "normal," took a shower, got dressed, went downstairs to let the dogs out, and felt, quite suddenly, an unfamiliar and intense pain in my lower abdomen. It was somewhat reminiscent of feeling like super-constipated, except that I wasn't. But I definitely didn't feel well enough to eat, so I packed a lunch and headed to work. I could not get comfortable at my desk. The pain was getting worse. I started to feel cold. Put on my emergency work hoodie. Still cold. Busted out the space heater. Kept working. Got a phone call from a vendor. Was doing fine and then, 5 minutes into the call, I was sweating. Dizzy. I told the guy I had to go, hung up the phone, fell to the floor, and threw up in my wastebasket. The freezing went ...