Aurora Borealis

Because I had absolutely nothing to do today, I spent a few hours in the ER at St. Joseph’s.  It all seems a little silly now, but…

I had some sudden onset pain around my right shoulder blade this morning.  I thought maybe I’d slept funny.  Then it moved around to hurting also in the upper right part of my chest and under my arm – muscular type pain.  And I was just feeling not quite right – a little flushed or something – just not quite right.  And then a while later my lips started tingling.  That pretty much pushed me over the edge.  I called our friend R. to see if he might be available to watch Agent Murphy if I had to go to the doctor or something.  He had his wife, C. call me to hear about my symptoms.  (She’s a pharmacist by training, so she has some medical background.)  She decided St. Joseph’s would be the best place to go.  She came over and watched Agent Murphy while R. took me to the hospital.

So I had bloodwork, IV painkiller, an EKG, and chest x-rays.  Everything came back normal, so they’re treating it as some sort of skeletal-muscular injury and prescribed pain medications.  They don’t know why my lips are tingling, but say that’s a classic symptom of hyperventilating. so it may be that because of the pain I’m breathing rather shallowly and not exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide normally.  I sure don’t feel like I’m breathing abnormally, but whatever.  My lips aren’t back to normal, but they are a little less tingly now.  The IV pain medication worked so well, that initially I thought I wouldn’t need the prescriptions.  Yeah.  On the way home I changed my mind and filled both prescriptions.  Mostly I just feel it in my shoulder now.  All very strange.  And rather scary.  I’m glad it wasn’t anything serious, like some sort of cardiac incident.  And I’m glad we have such good friends who will step up for something like this.

Mr. Tldz was able to relieve C. of Agent Murphy duty a little before 2:00 because his new boss offered to drive him home, so he didn’t have to wait until 3:00 to catch the first bus.

I’m glad to be home with my family!

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