This week is so fired

It's not been a good week, to put it mildly. I spent a few hours in the ER Wednesday night, with some serious pain. ER doc thought it was my gall bladder, called surgeon, told me to get an ultrasound today (they don't have a tech on at night, how weird is that?!).

Got the ultrasound done, talked to the surgeon tonight. Ultrasound is normal, of course. *headdesk*

I've had issues with right side pain for well over 20 years, on and off. The pain that started Wednesday night, however, is the worst it's ever been, as well as the longest time it's hung around. The morphine they gave me last night helped a lot, the hydrocodone I'm taking now isn't helping nearly as much.

So anyway, we talked to the surgeon about the history, and we all decided that removing my gall bladder is a good idea at this point. But we need to make sure we give the insurance company whatever information they'll need to cover it (as in do we need to do further tests, etc). I'm supposed to call the surgeon's office tomorrow to make an appointment for Monday and to start the ball rolling on the insurance stuff. The hard part will be that Dan has to go to school on Monday, so I have to schedule my appointment around that, since I'm not going to be in any shape to drive.

More than likely surgery will be Tuesday or Wednesday.

Of course, this is sucking for work. Yes, I work from home, but I need to be in better mental shape and not in pain to work. I don't know how much PTO I have, and since I'm hourly if I don't work and I don't have PTO I don't get paid. *sigh*

We were just finishing digging out from the unemployment period. Figures.

So anyway, I'm trying to figure out if I can actually knit while impaired. I'm working on the clapotis right now, since that's a fairly simple repeat pattern. I'm not going to seam more of the hoodie, since I want those seams to look good, and it's the first time I've seamed something up in a long time.

And all this is on top of some other health news I got yesterday that I'm not ready to talk about yet.

Sheesh!!