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| Kathy Warnock | ||||||||||||||||
| 9/12/07 | ||||||||||||||||
| BECOMING VERY ILL IN THE 10TH GRADE | ||||||||||||||||
| ����������� When I first became ill, it was Christmas Day and I had a headache when my family and I went to see relatives like we do every year as a tradition, and I had a temperature of 102. But after that I was feeling pretty good. A few months later, I had another headache during school, and I guess it must've triggered something because when I woke up on the Saturday after I had the headache, I just couldn't function. My head was hurting, I felt sick to my stomach. Later that day, my parents were helping me get to my bed. I was lying down on my father's bed, and as I was trying to get up, it felt like gravity was fighting me. I felt so dizzy I could barely move. My mom thought it was vertigo because I was so dizzy. | ||||||||||||||||
| ����������� The next day, I was feeling a little better but I couldn't walk too much but I could eat only saltine crackers and drink some sprite. My grandparents invited us to have dinner with them and I couldn't go because I was so sick. I was happy that I wasn't too dizzy anymore but I was still a little dizzy. | ||||||||||||||||
| ����������� The next day, I had to go to school but I told my parents that I wasn't feeling well enough so they said, 'If you're not going to school, then you're going to the doctor." I said, "Fine." When they took me to the doctor, she just prescribed me some pain medication for the pain I was having around my appendix. The next few days of school were hard for me because I would go to school but then having to call my mom to tell her to come and pick me up. After a while they started getting fed up with having to come and pick me up so they stopped coming to pick me up. | ||||||||||||||||
| ����������� One day when I wasn't feeling well, and I asked my mom to come and pick me up and she refused so I walked home. I was almost there when a cop pulls over and obviously knows I'm not eighteen so he drives me back to school and one of our assistant principles calls my mom to let her know and then they send me to class. When my mom got home she said, "Let's go to the hospital." She said that because I had walked home. | ||||||||||||||||
| ����������� When we got to the hospital, we were in the waiting room for about a half an hour to an hour. When they called me back, and I told them my symptoms and one that caught their attention was having pain in the area where my appendix is. I had to drink this horrible tasting stuff so they could get a clear view of my appendix. When they got my CAT scan of my appendix they came back and said that I didn't have appendicitis but my lymph nodes in that area were inflamed. They gave me medicine which I never took because I knew that it wouldn't work because nothing else was. | ||||||||||||||||
| ����������� Well, since my other symptoms hadn't gone away, because the doctors haven't found a reason why I had these symptoms, I was still feeling miserable. We went to see this doctor that said I had something called NeuroCardiogenic Syncope. It's a disease that affects my heart, my brain, and my stomach some. To treat it I had to eat a lot of salt and drink a lot of Gatorade. Well when I went to see my family doctor she said that I didn't have this disease and that I have acid reflux. We were happy that I finally have a diagnosis, and since then I haven't been sick like that. | ||||||||||||||||
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