Overnight in the ER
It is currently 10:45am Saturday morning. I am finally awake enough for an update. Thursday went well enough, normal day at work and then when I got home; bedtime usual time (between 7pm-8pm). I woke up just before midnight with severe abdominal pain, back pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. This has happened twice before. Not waiting it out this time, not waiting to see if it gets better on it's own like the last two times. I checked into the local ER around 12:30am -- door to door is only about a quarter of a mile. Long story short, I was there until about 7:30am with my friends Zofran and morphine. I actually needed to have two doses of each throughout the night, which is a change from before. Usually one dose of each worked like a charm, and immediately. Morphine did not work immediately like it did the two previous times. This is a little concerning because eventually my body will get used to/adjust to the pain meds and I'll need them stronger. Eventually there won