The chiropractic savior team

Hi everyone! So a of couple things have happened since my last blog. Monday and Tuesday were nice and mellow; me and Chelsea were just hanging out and figuring out all the questions we needed to ask Dr. Fukumoto. I kept getting fevers, especially through the nights. Nightime is the hardest for me because that's when my throat dries up and makes the sores even more painful. So to try and fix that I would wake up every hour to press my pain killer and gurgle salt water to keep my throat moist. But by doing that I don't sleep very well :( It was very hard to want to sleep because I was so afraid of the pain. To try and get sleep the next day I would attempt to eat some breakfast (cream of wheat cause that was the only thing i could eat) and then take an anti-nausea medicine that makes me super drowsy so i can fall asleep. While sleeping chelsea would press my pain button and wake me up now and then to moisten my throat. It helped but I still haven't gotten a lot of rest...I think I need some nap times during the day :)

So wednesday I was supposed to shave my head but some blue barf and other events interrupted me. Chelsea went and got her HLA blood typing done in the morning with Cassidy so I was alone for the morning time until they got done with the testing, eat breakfast and find me a cute hat to wear after they shaved my head. At the hospital the nurse Michelle (my favorite) gave me 4 HUGE Potassium pills to take since my numbers were low. After a couple of hours I was starting to get nauseous and I knew that I was going to throw up. Michelle went to go see if there was something she could give me to help. Literally 2 seconds after she left I threw up. What did I throw up you ask? BLue. I looked down and was like "BLUE?!?!". Michelle walked back in and I said "It's BLUE!!!" She looked at it was said "Oh that must be from the Potassium". So, unfortunately, the Potassium pills made me throw up a couple of times that day and I was sad :( By the time Chelsea and Cassidy came back my energy was gone and I was just tired.

We had a lot of questions that day to ask Dr. Fukumoto that were crucial for us to know to start planning our next steps at a different hospital. While waiting at approximately 3:00pm I had a spasm/sharp pain in my back after I was leaning over on a pillow. I immediately thought that my rib has popped out and that this was NOT what I wanted to go through right now. I had very deep, shap spasms in my ribs, back, left shoulder and diaphragm, making it hard to breathe. It took an hour for the nurses to contact Dr. Fukumoto to see if we can get an x-ray or to come by and check on me. He was able to precribe me a muscle relaxer after he answered all of our questions. I had contacted my chiropractor I work with at Diamond Head Chiropractic to have him come help me because I knew a muscle relaxor would help but not fix the problem. Dr. Jesse the chiropractor finally arrived at the hospital around 7pm and he was able to tell me that my ribs were fine and that the pain was from my muscles in my diaphragm and a lot of other muscles on the left side of my torso were in spasm. His first goal was to get me back into a correct position because while being sick for the past week my body and spine had pretty collapsed and my muscles have gotten so tight that they all couldn't do their jobs anymore and gave up, basically. I have been moving my whole life and now suddenly I'm not moving for a week. My body moves every easy and I have to constantly be stabilizing my joints and body in order to keep it happy and in good posture. The second I stop stabilizing (like when I'm very stressed with school or sick in bed) I get in a lot of pain because my bones are going too far out of range. Jesse had to remind me how to use my muscles again and to use them more often. He adjusted me lightly and did some muscle work to loosen up the muscles but took care in making sure what my mind could handle my body might not be able to. I was able to sleep some hours at night and took another muscle relaxer in the morning because the sharp pains were back. Dr. Erik from Diamond Head Chiropractic was able to come thursday morning and he did some muscle work as well. They helped me so much and I am so lucky and grateful that I have them to take care of me when I am in pain. Today I am feeling much better; still get some spasms but I've only taken the muscle relaxer once today. I'm able to move around easily and I just need to make sure that even if people are visiting that I get my exercises in.