The day from hell, or

The day from hell, or week so far actually. Woke up feeling not to great this past Sunday. Slept most of the afternoon. Monday morning awoke to excrutiating back pain. Spent all day barely taking care of Caleb. Woke today to more back pain and stomach cramps. Had big plans for visiting w/ my brothers family, which ended up being them taking Caleb for the day so I could sit in the ER. My dr couldnt see me til almost 5 pm and I figured at which point she would send me for all sorts of tests tomorrow since most labs close early. So sat in the waiting room of the ER for 7 hours, yep thats right 7 hours before they take me back. Found out I was dehydrated, still not sure how that happened or why I didnt know. Other than that just pumped with pain killers that never worked and sent home being told I had low back pain for no known reason and to take pain killers and muscle relaxer. I’ve been doing that since yesterday and it’s not helped at all. Finally got home and my wonderful hubby is fixing me dinner at 2 am!! I havent eaten since 11:30 Tuesday morning and all I ate was a hot dog!! Tomorrow Caleb is going to stay at a friends until Dean can get off of work. My return to “work” day on my discharge isnt until Friday. I laughed and told the nurse “too bad my return to work is a toddler at home” and struggled to walk my way to the car. I can barely stand up straight and every step is agonizing. Hoping a day in bed tomorrow will help and not knowing what to do if it doesnt. Didnt do anything to strain it that I know of, and nothing that would cause three days of excrutiating unable to resolve w/ narcotics pain. Was very disappointed at the outcome, they didnt do any xrays or MRIs. He totally discounted my complaint of abdominal cramps and said it was probably just ovulation pain, but I’m a week past ovulation. They did a hcg test and it was negative so my fear of a tubal pregnancy was put to rest. So unless I get worse or have more symptoms theres nothing they can do. Had two drs try to reassure me that if my spinal fluid pressure was raising too much I”d have more symptoms than just back pain, but I still dont think they are too sure. It’s just odd that the pain is in the exact spot where the dr did my spinal tap and I was told then that they do it there because that is where the spinal fluid builds up. I dont want a spinal tap but if it menas freedom to walk w/out pain I’d do it. But neither the ER dr or my neurologists thought it was from that since my only symptom was back pain. So I went to the ER at 2 pm and got home around 1:30 am, almost 12 hours there. Spent most of waiting to be seen spent the rest of the time waiting for my body to fill up w/ 2 bags of IV fluid to fix my dehydration. So if anything at least now I’m not low on fluids!! I think its funny I was taking all of those pills to decrease the amt of fluid my body was holding and tonight they fill me full of fluids!! Didnt feel dehydrated and dont feel particularly rehydrated so who knows. Off to bed after some yummy bbq chicken that my wonderful hubby made me!!! Hope tomorrow is a much better day for me and that Caleb knows his mommy loves him even when she is too sick to care for him.