THE-BOOK-OF-ROO

PROVERBS 1:7

THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING IF KNOWLEDGE, BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTIONS.

Hi all. I bet you are surprised to be hearing from me so quickly from my last blog/vlog. I know I am surprised to be writing/recording one so quickly lol 😂

I never imagined in a million years that I’d be writing this but here I am. As I said in my last blog/vlog. Whenever you think you have sickness and disease figured out, you realize you’re wrong! You have nothing figured out, because when you think you figured out it’s pattern and you think sickness is going to go right, it will end up doing a ninja move on you and go in the complete opposite direction and do circles around you🤪🤦‍♀️

I am sure you are wondering what happened? Well honestly I’d like to know the answer to that question too LOL 😂 The truth is none of us (including my Doctors) knows what happened, but I will try to break everything down and explain it all as best I can. Friday morning I woke up feeling fine, honestly it was looking like one of my better days at first.

I woke up that morning and my mom said my dad got stung by a bee! He actually thought he might have gotten stung twice, and he was now starting to develop a severe reaction from the bee sting (s). Which totally caught us all off guard because my dads a landscaper, he has been a landscaper for close to 40 years! So obviously being in this line of work he has been subjected to a billion bee stings and other types of bites and poisons, but never had he ever became sick from any of it, but this time he was sick and it was bad! He was in the middle of working on a job and all of a sudden he couldn’t breathe! He dropped the equipment that he was holding and everything, part of me thinks he was about to pass out. Thankfully he had a guy working with him that day and that guy saw him drop his machine, I think it was a leaf blower, and when he saw my dad drop the machine the way he did he knew he was in trouble because he knew that was so unlike my dad to just drop his stuff on the ground in the middle of working,

So he ran up to my dad and grabbed him and the machine and sat with my dad until he caught his breath and than this guy proceeded to help my dad get back home safely. After my dad got home my mom wanted to bring him right to the ER but God forbid my dad go to the ER, that’s crazy talk LOL. Instead my dad asked my mom to go to the drugstore and get him a medication that he knew of that could help. My mom respected his wishes and went to get the medication he wanted but we all told him if that didn’t start working within a few hours or if he got the slightest bit worse or had another attack like he had at work than we were taking him in even if we had to call 911 to take him. Well thankfully the medication started to work, so we were like ok great, few, we really dodged a bullet on that one 😜

When my mom got home from getting my dad his medication I said mom I hate to tell you this But I am now starting to feel really sick. She said (jokingly of course) Oh my gosh please no, I can’t take care of you both at the same time or be in two different ER’s at the same time! When she said that we both kind of just laughed it off and I took my anti nausea meds and than life went on as usual. About a hour later I said to my mom: Mom, my medication kicked in so let’s give me a bath. I quickly got undressed and got in my bath tub and as of that moment things were running some what smoothly, I mean I told my mom I still felt like I was fighting something but yet felt ok. I felt “stable”, as we would put it. I than proceeded to get out of the tub and within the first five-ten minutes, I just felt awful and I told my mom, ok I know something’s hitting but I can’t tell what, and I even said to her: it is so weird because it almost feels like I didn’t take any of my medications today, but I know I did so this is so weird and I said to her, oh well I’m sure it will pass but for now I feel awful so I am going to shut my eyes and take a nap, I shut my eyes about 1ish PM and I woke up about 3ish, maybe 4PM and the minute I opened my eyes I just started screaming in pain! Like uncontrollably screaming and immediately I said I need a ER something isn’t right! My stomach is killing me and my entire body is in pain and I just kept screaming.

She said to me: Jackie are you sure you took all your medications because you sound and act like you do when you miss a few doses and I said: no I took them I promise, thankfully we keep a log and also you only get so many pills to last so many days, so she was able to not only look at our log but also count how many pills are left in the bottle, so for example if I was supposed to take 1 pill once a day for 13 days, than I should have 13 pills left. So she looked and counted what I had left, and yep sure enough, I was right, I took my medication, there was not even 1 extra pill, there was exactly what there should have been, once we realized that we were like ok if I didn’t skip or miss a dose than why am I acting this way? What is wrong with me?

Again I told my mom, get me to a hospital and get me there now! She thankfully didn’t argue, she just grabbed me, put me in my chair and off we went. As soon as I entered rainbows babies and children’s hospital (UH) I started the throw up all over myself, it was so bad that I actually had to change my clothes once I got into a room.

Once I entered though, like I said I was puking like crazy. My mom went up to the check in counter and screamed for help, but honestly I was not impressed by how they acted. I love this hospital, I know the lord blessed me with the ability to be able to go to this hospital and I know they are a big part of why I am still alive. But in this moment they were not impressing me. When my mom screamed for help the receptionist at the check in counter looked at my mom and handed her a cup, A CUP!!! my mom looked at the receptionist and said what am I supposed to do with this? We need a room and we need one NOW! thankfully the receptionist heard us and she immediately took us back to the check in nurse. The check in nurse I was not impressed with either I am sorry, but he was rude and down right disrespectful even. He is sitting there, reading my chart, looking at my body, looking at how sick and in distressed I am, but yet when he asked my mom what medications I was on and didn’t believe her and immediately got an attitude with us because he thought we were lying, me lying and about medications of all things! That’s a down right joke!

After he questioned us he, the nurse, questioned us he proceeded to bring us to a room and he said out loud, right in front of us. Here’s the list of medications she’s “supposedly” on, this is what the “mom” says she takes. The doctor just looked at this nurse cross eyed and was like okay, look at this girl I’m sure they’re not lying kind of thing.

The Doctor immediately came up to us and started working on me and they immediately got an IV in me and within like, gosh maybe 20-40 minutes I not only had my IV but also had my medications administered to me. I was extremely impressed with how organized and sufficient they were and how respectful the team even was. There was also a Dr on the floor who had taken care of me just two weeks prior to this so she also vouched for me and told everyone my medication list I gave them was real and was accurate. I am so thankful she was on call that night, because I do not think things would have went as smoothly if she wasn’t there.

After they got me medications in me I perked right up, which made me relieved because if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years it’s that if they give you your medications right away and they help you feel better than you pretty much know just by that alone that it is not anything to serious going on, because if it was something serious, like an obstruction, than medications or not, I would have not improved, if anything I would have just kept declining, but I didn’t thankfully i immediately improved. They did do a CT scan and X-ray just to be safe but those things showed nothing wrong. So the big million dollar question, what the heck happened and why did it happen? Well unfortunately we may never know those answers but right now we’re just focusing on the positive and the positive is, I improved and got better with just a extra dose of pain medication.

What’s on the agenda for now? Nothing, continue to watch me closely, pray that never happens again, but God forbid if it does happen again we at least know how to handle it, and we do exactly what we did Friday.

And when they say everything happens in Gods timing, they are so right because just hours later there was a shooting and a 13 year old boy was shot and taken to the same hospital I was at, and because it was a shooting there were cops everywhere and so I know the hospital was very chaotic and intense and I know if I would have gotten sick than, I probably would not have gotten the same wonderful care I got. Don’t get me wrong they would have taken good care of me, but because that kids condition was worse than mine he would have gotten the priority over me, which is totally understandable, he should get the priority care over me in that situation, but I am just saying Gods timing is always perfect because he allowed that to happen right before this boy got hurt so thankfully they didn’t have to make that choice and they did not have to worry about us both. Plus I was thankful I wasn’t there just because, I have been at the hospital during cases like that and it is such a overwhelming and heart breaking feeling and experience. You feel even more helpless than you already felt and watching those nurses and Doctors try to suck it up and try to act like it doesn’t bother them, and watching that look of defeat on their faces, is just so sad and such an overwhelming feeling, so I am so glad I wasn’t there in that moment, especially because the 13 year old boy I think passed away and so I just don’t want to be in that hospital when someone passes anymore. I have already experienced what that’s like as a patient several times over the years and yes even though they try their hardest to hide what’s going on and they try to keep things upbeat as best they could and try to build this protective shield over us, it still doesn’t work, at least not for me. Maybe it works for other people but not me, I always know exactly when a patient has lost their life and that feeling is the worst and no matter what you do to try to wipe it from your memory, it is just something that stays with you and that you do not forget, and I think it is worse in a pediatric hospital because you know it’s a child who had its whole life ahead of him or her.

Thats the 411 on my hospital saga and being rushed to the ER. they sent me home that night, I did not stay at all. Because they figured there is no used to me staying if there was nothing wrong so thankfully I got to go home and sleep in my own bed…

One quick update on my book. They are starting to put the finishing touches on it and I should get to see the first sample/prototype kind of thing very soon. Advertising is going to cost me big time though. I need a publicist if I really want this book to go anywhere and the publicist is going to cost me at least a a $1,000 maybe even $2,000! And before people say oh my gosh why so much? A publicist does all your advertising. They make radio advertisements for you, they make the little banners you see on YouTube and social media. They film a video and than get that video out into the public, they do a lot, they can book speaking gigs for you and so on and so on so that all does cost money, but I feel I invested so much into this book already it be dumb to not invest in advertising so that it can actually get in the public’s hands, unless any of my followers have connections in the world of publicists so that it won’t cost me as much. If you do please reach out to me.

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