Now Avoiding Taco Bell

Taco Bell, one of my favorites since childhood, has officially hit the anti list. When I went in for my ultrasound in July, they found that I have gallstones, not that surprising to me, because my mom and my grandma have both had them, and have had their gallbladder taken out. Every time I go into the doctor's office she asks me if I am having any pain that might be associated with the stones. Up until a week ago Sunday, I had not.

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That Sunday we went out with our friends Ben and Suzi to see a movie, The Bourne Ultimatum, which was good, and out to dinner at Chevy's. It took us like 15 minutes to decide where to go, but Chevy's is finally what we all agreed on. Like I said, I had had no previous pain with the gallstones and therefore was still eating whatever sounded good. We had fajitas. They were really good. We then went and got Coldstone, again really good. That should go on the favorites list. Anyways, on the way home, my back started to ache, at first I thought it was the normal pregnancy ache associated with sitting at the theater and Chevy's and Coldstone.

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When we got home, it was persistant. Jake rubbed my back, but it wouldn't go away. I took a Tylonal, nothing. I switched positions, not that we are allowed to lay in many positions, but I tried them all. Jake suggested going out to the couch, watching a movie and drinking tea to try and take my mind off of this. At this point we were about 2 hours into the pain, and it had shifted to my stomach too, like a tightening of all the muscles around my torso. Nothing was helping, in fact it was getting worse. I was getting the chills interupted by heat flashes, and was getting the occational wave of nausea.

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We did what every 25 year old who has been married for 5 years does, we called my mom. She said to call the on call doctor. He asked all the baby questions, it wasn't that, I knew she was fine. He said that we could either come in or try to get comfortable enough to go to sleep and hope that helped. Now, trying to get comfortable enough to go to sleep is what I had been trying to do, it was 10:30, I had to be at work at 5:30, I wanted to be asleep!

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So, to the hospital we went, we pretended like we were doing it to find out how long it was going to take later, ha. We made it in 30 minutes, dang that is going to be a long drive later. Up to the OB area we went, they took a urineanalysis, put a monitor on Elizabeth, a contraction moniter on me. Good heart beat, no contractions, cervix closed. Then all of the sudden one of those waves hit me, I was going to throw up. And I did, all over me and the floor, greatest all time moment for me. After I threw up a couple of times, the pain got worse, and then began to reside. I was able to breathe, and almost sleep.

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The nurse told us that it wasn't a kiddney infection, which is what they thought it was, and that perhaps it was a gallstone. Oh, hey, why hadn't we thought of that. It hadn't even occured to us. Dang it. We told her that they had shown up on the ultrasound, she said that almost definately that was what it was because I did have them.

Anyways, all that to tell you that last night I ate Taco Bell late at night, probably not a good idea for a normal person to do, but especially not for one who should be avoiding greasy foods. My side began to hurt early in the morning, not to the extent as last Sunday, but I think that is the end of Taco Bell for me for a while.