Another ER Visit

Who knew that eating dinner would be such a bad idea?  I ate and from that point on felt so gross. I spent the next several hours trying to throw up what I ate to see if that would make me feel better. I laid down on my left side (this usually helps) and then tried walking it off. Nothing was working and I was getting worse. I felt as if everything was stuck and there was no movement occurring. I could not burp or move air through and I started to get worried. We decided that maybe the ER was the answer again tonight.

It was a Monday night and little did I know that this is apparently the busiest night in the ER. We got there and the ER was packed. I got checked in and waited an hour in the lobby. They pulled me out of the lobby and into triage and started an IV and did some lab work and then sent me back into the ER lobby. I waited another 15 minutes before I was taken back to a room. When I got into a room the nurse came in and then the Dr. came in. We discussed my history and the surgery I had. He pumped me full of Zofran and Morphine while he decided what he wanted to do. He suspected I had a partial/full gastric outlet obstruction. Because Dr. Frech has privileges at IMC he wanted to send me up there and have Dr. Frech do the procedure. He called IMC and Dr. Frech was not on call but one of his partners was. He told the ER Dr. that they could transfer me to IMC and admit me overnight and someone else would do the procedure in the morning.  I told the ER Dr. that if Dr. Frech wasn't going to do the procedure I didn't want to travel all the way up there to explain to another Dr. my history when we could just do something in Provo tonight. He agreed and called the on-call Gastro Dr. at UVRMC. The response was pretty much the same; they could admit me overnight and do the procedure in the morning. I was so fed up at this point. The ER Dr. said if I really didn't want someone else doing the procedure I could go home tonight and then call Dr. Frech in the morning and see if they could get me in in the morning. At this point, this was the only option that allowed me to not stay overnight, so naturally this is the one I took.  The Dr. gave me more medicine and fluids to get me through the night and left the IV in my arm so I wouldn't have to do another one in the morning. I was instructed very specifically to make sure that I called Dr. Frech in the morning and take care of this.

Little did I know that things were not going to work out how the ER Dr. had this planned.