So, after the doctor's dropped a bomb on my lap, they told me I was to get over to Dr. #2's office right away to have an emergency bone marrow biopsy. I was scared. I was tired. I didn't feel good. I still don't think I knew what was going on.
The nurse came in and said that my husband was back. {that's coming in a bit} When Jackie came in, I was still dazed, partially from being sick and partially because I was still in shock. I told him Dr.'s #1 & #2 thought I had leukemia. I started crying and Jackie said to me something comforting but for the life of us, neither can remember what it was.
Dr. #1 came back in the room and explained it all a little more thoroughly to Jackie. He then told him to take me across the street to Dr. #2's office to have the biopsy. After that he was to take me to the hospital to be admitted immediately.
When we got there, he wheeled me straight to the back and the nurses prepped me for the procedure.
Dr. #2 came in and said because of how quickly he had to perform the biopsy, that he could only give me a local anesthetic. Hence the name EMERGENCY biopsy.
Let me give you one piece of advice, if someone is standing on the street, or anywhere for that matter, and offering FREE EMERGENCY bone marrow biopsies, RUN AWAY!!!
I am not trying to discourage anyone from donating bone marrow, by all means, no! But, I am trying to save you the pain of having a bone marrow biopsy with only a local anesthetic. Ask for lots and lots of morphine and you'll be fine! I promise! Trust me. At the time of writing this post, I have had 3 total. I am now an expert :-)
Continuing on:
I will spare you the details of the screaming and crying during the biopsy in Dr. #2's office.
After the biopsy was finished, I had to lay flat on my back for about 10 minutes to make sure the bleeding stopped. When that was all done, Dr. #2 sent us to the hospital to get checked in. They wheeled me into my room and got everything set up. i.e. my hospital gown, my IV, etc.
Deuteronomy 31:6
Now, is when I will switch gears and start another story: Sadie. This starts back kind of at the beginning of my story as well.
All of the girls had been sick, as I mentioned in part 1. Charlotte and Audrey, both, had been feeling 100% for a few days. Sadie had escaped a lot of the illnesses until much closer to when I went to the doctor. She woke up from her nap on Monday, screaming her head off. So, I ran upstairs. It was the fastest I had moved in days. {but this part isn't about me } When I got to her, she was sitting up in her bed, there was vomit on the floor beside her, and all over her sheet. She had her back to me, still screaming, when I went to pick her up, I saw all the vomit in her hair, on her shirt and pants, stuck to the poor girl's face and arms. I felt terrible for her. I wished I had checked on her sooner. It looked like she had been sleeping in it for a while.
I put her in the bathtub, she was still screaming. I tried my best to calm her down. But, this was the first time she had ever thrown up and she was still half asleep. And, ontop of that, I was spraying her with water, trying to get it all off.
I wrapped her in a towel and took her downstairs to sit with me for a little bit. I figured the throw up on the floor and bed could wait. Charlotte & Audrey were awake now, they came downstairs to join us in watching something on tv.
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Everyday, Sadie seemed to be fine and then, she would throw up. I think it was the day before I went to the doctor {that Tuesday} she threw up 6 times. We knew it was pretty bad, but we thought it was just a bug and we were trying to wait it out. [big mistake, we know that now.} Wednesday came. She didn't throw up once. But, she had a fever and was acting sick, which is not normal for our girls.
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Jackie checked me into Dr. #1's office and waited out in the waiting room with the girls. Moments later, the nurse came out and told him that I was dehydrated. They were going to put me on fluids and it was going to be a couple of hours. So, he took the girls back to the van and went to Bojangles to get the girls some food. Because they were hungry and we didn't realize then, just how sick I really was. He drove back to the Dr. #1's parking lot and stayed in the van with them.
Sadie pooped in her diaper and we didn't have any extra diapers in the van, so Jackie drove just down the street to Walgreens to get some. While they were walking up to the register, Sadie threw up all over Jackie. While Jackie was trying to clean himself up, his cell phone rang. It was Dr. #1's office which told him to get back to the office immediately. That I would need to go to the hospital. So, Jackie rushed out to the van, changed Sadie's diaper and took his shirt off and put his fleece on to wear as a shirt because he obviously didn't have a change of clothes.
When he got back to the office, a nurse offered to stay at the van with the girls so he could go in and be with me.
When we left Dr.#1's office to go to #2's office, Jackie called my friend, C, to see if she could come sit with the girls while he took me there and to the hospital. Sadie sacked out in her carseat and Charlotte & Audrey were happy eating and watching Tom & Jerry. Jackie and C worked out a plan that her husband could come and get Charlotte & Audrey, and C would stay in the van with Sadie until Jackie could take her to the ER.
I told Jackie that I wanted him to take Sadie to the ER, not C because she needed her daddy. I knew she would be scared and Daddy's are good at making their daughters feel better! I don't know what it is with the bond between a Dad and his daughter, but there is certainly something magical about it.
So, he took her to the ER, Pastor met them there and then, while they waited, she threw up again. So they shuffled her to the back and started checking her out. They discovered she had RSV and hooked her to an IV.
This part is so hard for me to write because this is my baby we are talking about and all I wanted to do was to be with her.
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Sadie in the ER. Bless her little heart with that pretty smile, even when she was so sick!
They admitted her, she was just down the hall from me. So close, but I couldn't see her.
There we were.
Sadie in a hospital gown and an IV and just down the hall, me, in a hospital gown with an IV.
Poor Jackie was torn. He wanted to be with Sadie, but he wanted to be with me. I told him I was a grown up, I can handle being alone if I have to. Sadie is in a strange place with strange people and all she knows is that these people keep sticking her and hurting her every time they go into her room. She needs her daddy.
Somehow, Jackie found a few minutes to write an e-mail out to his family in MI & SC, and called my family here.
Little did we know after his sisters, Sher & Joy, received the e-mail, they packed up and started the long 14 hour drive down to be with us!
Psalm 46:1-3
And, this, is where the Part 2 train stops. Part 3 will be along soon, I hope!!
