#18

I'm thankful for WEB MD.

Let me explain.

I woke up around 3am yesterday morning to feed the babes and had a weird backache on my right side. It was hard to feed her and started to get super painful so I handed her off to Brian to put her back to sleep. I then tried to go to sleep myself but this odd backache was getting worse. I couldn't find a comfortable position and it started to spread to my front side under my ribs. I got a little sleep here and there but the pain kept getting worse. I even took some Advil to take the edge off and no relief. By 6am it felt like someone had taken a chainsaw and sliced through my body halfway. I started to get really scared and panicked a little as I realized I couldn't handle this getting anymore intense. Well, it did! I couldn't sit up without feeling faint and dizzy and I was getting short of breath. Then the cold sweats came. I was FREEZING and soaking. It was a miserable mess. Thankfully Brian was still home and decided he needed to take the day off, and was deciding if he needed to take me to the hospital so he hopped on webmd. We concluded it must be my gall bladder and my mom and bro-in-law had both had a bout with attacks so I called up my mom to see if she had any remedies for the pain. Through my short breaths we determined I was indeed have a gall bladder attack.
It's the worst pain I think I've ever felt and yes, I did just push out a 10 1/2 pound baby. It's not like contraction pain where it builds, peaks, then goes away for a minute, it's CONSTANT, can't-get-a-breath-in pain. The scariest part was not knowing what it was. It was so painful it made me cry, which then made the breathing thing even harder. I then had a crying hungry baby that I had no idea how I was going to feed. Ugh, it was a mess. It started to lighten up around 9am enough for me to get some rest and when i woke up, it was back to the dull back ache it began as. But I'm thankful for web md that saved me from a trip to the ER. I really don't like hospitals.
After investigating a little more, I read the Gall Stones and attacks are common after having a baby. Why didn't the doctor warn me??