Hello people, I had an adventure this weekend. On Saturday I woke up on an 8/10 pain scale with huge abdominal pain and some very nasty symptoms, so I went to the Tang center where I worsened for a time until they gave me morphine which knocked my pain from an 8 to a 4/10. Since the Tang center couldn't evaluate if it was my appendix or something else internal, they sent me to the hospital to be tested and watched overnight on the suspicion I had appendicitis. Since I wasn't really in the best state of mind in the morning, I didn't have a phone charger and had to use the hospital phone to tell my parents I was going to be at the hospital. I'd never ever been to a hospital before, so there were some interesting stressors and new things there. I spent a few hours in the patient waiting room because, like Tang, the hospital was packed and busy. I drew to pass the time. Eventually I got an ER room, and they ran a CT scan on me, which didn't even show my appendix because apparently my body is just that way, but there also wasn't any sign of inflammation around the appendix. Mystery deepens!

I fall in and out of sleep around 3 AM, when I'm officially admitted and can get a proper hospital bed. I wake up around 7 or 8 AM because my parents, bless their hearts, drove up because they couldn't catch a plane fast enough. After the doctors thoroughly looking at my CT scans, two abnormal growths are found on my ovaries. So apparently, I've got bilateral ovarian cysts! After seeing if I could eat and hold down food after 24+ hours "eating" my IV drip, I finally get discharged and out of the hospital at 3 pm on Sunday.

Now, until I can see a proper OBGYN/GYN I don't know if it's entirely the cysts or if the cysts are just a symptom of something else, but at least it's not an appendectomy. Pain seems manageable enough that I should be back in classes on Wednesday!