I woke up in pain today. Damn spleen pain. Why why why why why???? I wanted to know. I thought I took it easy yesterday. I found out that the laundry and light cleaning I did was “too much”. I am not suppose to BEND AT ALL. Ugh! No bending, no cleaning, no twist, turn, exercising. Dangit!!! Thankfully after some ibuprofen, heat and 20mg of oxcydone, I had some relief.
I let 4 hours pass so the oxy would leave my system so I could drive. I felt good now and it’s 11am and I headed out because I needed to go down to Fredericksburg, VA. The traffic was good at this hour getting out of the city (DC) but once I started down 95SB it was like rush hour. The Washington, DC area has the worst traffic in the country. I am not saying this because I know it sucks but I even watched it on the news not long ago, yes DC has the worst traffic out of anywhere. It’s a nightmare. This is why I moved from Virginia up because I hated driving in it to work as did my husband. I couldn’t believe it was a dead stop at NOON on 95 but it’s because of all the road construction that it took me hours to get down there. I could have been in New York, NY in this time. Ridiculous.
I was so sleepy. I thought the medication would have wore off as it should have but it didn’t drowsiness wise meaning I had the hardest time keeping my eyes open. Of coarse Tim called and I told him this and got to hear about “oh great now you are going to fall asleep at the wheel and kill yourself” Oh geez… No. I am stronger than that. I can make myself snap out of it. I had to mess with my mind and add some music and fresh air. I only went to one store that was planned – yay me. Did great there! I got my mail that goes to VA and new plates and tags. Woohoo! Headed home through Maryland because I was NOT doing that VA nonsense again.
I am just about to pull onto my street and my doctor is calling me. Oh great. I was hoping for no call because I thought “No news was good news” so I wasn’t happy to hear from her. She (my oncologist) had gone over Mondays scans with my surgeon and a Radiology Dr. and found there is an air sac in my spleen near my colon. They found this to be serious and ordered a study to be done in Radiology tomorrow morning. I have to take enema solutions tonight… gross.
When I got home the pain was starting again and this time I still had the doctor on the phone so I had told her about it and she said this is why this could be very serious. The pain and fevers especially. Ugh great! I’ve learned from my 1/2 year late diagnosis that I can handle pain better than anyone so my spleen better not rupture again because that was the WORST PAIN ever!! I was paralyzed and went blind from my body going into shock from the pain so yes, that insanely bad. So these spleen pains are a touch of that rupture pain because they are paralyzing feeling, I can’t move and I hold my heart while holding my breathe so I remain cool and calm. The oxys took 2 hours to kick in.
Time for me to detox/shower/relax.
xoxo ~Ashley
Cancer Kickin' Girl 