My Single Mom Life

A myelogram is not a fun test/procedure/whatever they want to call it.
It hurts, it's long, they hang you upside down.
It hurt so bad and then after that wonderful torture fest, I had to do the CT scan which thank god, was easy and comfortable.
The hardest part was having to lay perfectly flat for 6 hours on a hard hospital bed.
My body does not lay flat.
It is painful and massively uncomfortable.
I was in tears the whole 6 hours.
It hurt so bad.
I had to pee and they tried to make me pee in this female urinal type thingy.
I cannot pee laying down. Can not do it.
But, I wasn't allowed to sit up or use a bathroom at all until the 6 hours were up.
It sucked so bad.
Lunch was this awful sandwich thingy but because I was not allowed to eat anything after dinner last night, I was starving by the time they brought it to me.

I was finally allowed to get up and use the bathroom and get my own clothes on and then wait another hour before I could go home.

I'm home and am supposed to be laying down.
A myelogram is a test where they remove some spinal fluid and inject dye.
The fluid you lose causes severe headaches if you sit up too long which I have now experienced twice.
Plus, if you stay sitting up, your spinal fluid can drain out of the hole in your back and cause major problems.

I'm ok, I'm happy to be home, I will be laying down and not answering the phone.
I have a headache and I'm sore and so damn tired.
I just wanted to let you all know that I'm home and ok.
Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow.
They said it takes about 24 hours or so before you can actually feel like sitting up for more than a few minutes at a time.

Later days.