wimmhtw* 6.3

1. So usually I do this on Sunday, but we ended up spending yesterday afternoon and evening in the Emergency Room. My boyfriend was having extreme stomach pains all week, and he finally decided to go to Urgent Care. We had barely sat down in the room with the nurse there when she told us they were probably going to tell us to go to the ER. They just didn’t have access to the kind of diagnostic tests we were needing. So we went to the ER, for the tests and the hours of waiting, to find out he has gallstones. He got some meds for the pain and nausea, and we left with the number of a surgeon to call to schedule the surgery. It will be some weeks before this is all resolved, but at least we have an understanding of what’s going on, and he has some meds to help deal with the symptoms in the meantime.

2. In that vein, I am extremely grateful to local nurses. In the last few years, we have been to many, many of the local urgent cares, ERs, and hospitals, and I have seen so many kind, compassionate, hard-working nurses. They have helped keep us all bandaged, medicated, fed, hydrated, comfortable, and hopeful through surgeries, hospital stays, ER visits, and all the rest.

3. Sleep. Sleep makes me happy.

*what is making me happy this week