Walking through the Kroger not too far from my house on Monday morning with the two girls, I started to feel faint. “What is wrong with me” I wondered but tried to ignore it. Pushing the cart and placing my items in one after another felt like moving tree trunks from the ground into a far off pit. I tried to stay calm. Rested a moment and acted like everything was cool. Finally it over took me so I called my husband who was at work. I told him the situation and we hung up. I thought I could finish my shopping and simply go home before my current feelings got any worse. I struggled to finish shopping but couldn’t make it home. I called my husband again who called his father to pick me and the girls up.
My father-in-law came rather quickly and by the time he did so I was feeling BAD.
He wanted to take me to the emergency room but I was skeptical… ” I’ll just rest a while, it’s probably nothing.” He took us to his house, not very far from ours and I rested. Called a couple doctors and described my situation. No one knew. By this time I started getting harsh and nearly unbearable pains in my abdomen. I finally decided that it was time to go to the hospital when my pains were severe.
My father-in-law took me, along with Tahira (baby). Zahra stayed home with his wife and we were off. After arriving the pains were worse than severe. I was getting afraid. I couldn’t manage this pain anymore. In the hospital bed I screamed in pain and agony. The nurse came in and gave me six mg of morphine. My body felt tired, a little comfy even, but the pain… The pain was still there.
My husband and father-in-law came into the room at this point and I was still in tears needing more pain medicine. Finally another nurse (male) came in and gave me six more mg. That did the trick. Alhumdulillah it was gone.. for the most part.
I was there for some hours and they ran tests. Blood, urine.. Nothing came up nothing was wrong. So finally an ultrasound was administered. But still nothing.
I went home that night with a prescription for the pain but no answers.
The doctor in the emergency room thought it might have something to do with my gal bladder and suggested I contact my doctor and have her have a look see and make an appointment to have a hide scan. (Drink dye and then they see the inside of you clearly… like an x-ray) According to him, some mothers after childbirth will have problems with their gal bladders.
*interesting. never heard of that*
I call my doctor the next day and have an appointment set up for the day after. She tells me to call a number and schedule the scan with them at another hospital. Her office doesn’t have that type of equipment.
The appointment day arrives and my father-in-law takes myself and Tahira to the doctors. Zahra was dropped off at my sister’s.
Basically my doctor didn’t know. She called the hospital for me to have a CAT Scan RIGHT AWAY. She told me if the scan was clear then it might have something to do with acid reflux. (Some acid reflux can get so bad that the pain feels like a heart attack)
I get to the hospital and my husband arrived right before his dad and I. I get settled in and my mother-in-law comes to pick up Tahira… We are all a little uneasy about the situation, but not too many words or fear or sadness are spoken. It’s in Allah’s hands whatever the situation may be. Anyway, I am told to drink some disgusting dye… Two rather large cups of it. Drinking it will illuminate my abdomen and back and more, but doing so will make me unable to nurse for two days… *tear*
I drink this stuff and about three hours later get called in to have the scan done. It takes about 15 mins. which is cool. I went in and got hooked up to an Iv that will poor into my vain some …stuff… that will activate the die inside of my system… COOL
Well I lay ‘inside’ the machine and they start to give me this ….stuff…. and OMG my head is on fire.
It pours some very worm feeling from my head all the way down to the tips of my toes!! then after that you taste a disgusting copper in the back of your throat… The most crazy thing I was warned of was the sensation of peeing on yourself…. CRAZY but oh so true.
“You will feel like you are peeing you’re pants, but don’t worry, you’re not”
I laughed at the thought, and was surprised at the feeling. I really thought I mean it really felt like I was peeing on myself… How strange a thing to experience.
Anyway, my doctor didn’t want me to leave the hospital until I had the results and she was informed and then I spoke to her. About an hour after the scan she called the x-ray room my husband myself and my mother-in-law with my daughter were waiting in. It was about eight O’clock at this point.
” Your scan was pretty much normal… kinda, well you have a hernia”
“A HERNIA.”
“Not a bad one, it’s pretty small. And it’s not ruptured or anything….”
So there you have it… I was shocked, yet relieved that it was nothing more serious. A hernia… from labor… Something about my muscles and yada yada. Can you believe it. I can’t..
..But.. ALLAH IS MOST MERCIFUL.
Funny how most often we never hear in history the contributions Muslims brought to our way of thinking and the development of our world up to this point…. even yes… in the west.