Saturday, August 6, 2011 11:56 PM, CDT
We arrived in Mahomet, IL around 11:30PM Thursday night and checked into our hotel room. We had come there for Tracy's friend, Andy, whose niece was getting married on Saturday. I had worked nights on Wednesday and stayed up all day to switch back to day shift for my next four days off. I was extremely tired and kinda nauseous on the trip to Mahomet. The wedding was in nearby Champaign/Urbana but I would end up in Urbana for a totally different reason.
We visited in the hotel room with Andy for a short time and then started getting ready for bed. The hotel was quite the little dive but it was late and I doubted there was much else available. Besides I was sooooo tired! We laid down and I fell right to sleep probably around midnight or a little after. I remember waking up once and I was hurting in my chest. But I repositioned myself in the bed and fell back asleep. The next time I woke up it was almost 4am. Man, my chest was killing me but as I rolled around I realized the pain was originating in my back, between my shoulder blades and then through toward the front in my chest.
I got out of bed and headed to the bathroom. As I walked the few steps to the bathroom door the pain became excruciating. I have had kidney stones, two babies, dental abscesses, gallbladder pain and all that added up together didn't touch this pain. At first I literally thought I was going to die from the pain itself. My mind is racing thinking what is going on? I'm thinking big stuff like a dissecting thoracic aneurysm, a blown out disc in my back, and then I broke out in a complete sweat, just sweat pouring off of me and the nausea hit me. Was this the virus going around Bowling Green I'd seen over and over the last two nights I worked? But what about this pain in my back and through to my chest?
I'm not sure how long I was in the bathroom, probably a few minutes, when the deepest sense of impending doom hit me. "I am going to die right here in this awful hotel bathroom, how sad!" I could barely stand, I didn't want to lay in the floor, I was confused and collapsing and somehow stumbled back to the bed calling for Tracy. By this time I am in full blown panic, more pain than I ever imagined possible combined with this sense that death was very near was spinning my head around but all I could do was struggle around to the bed trying to escape that pain.
Tracy wake up, something is bad wrong. I wondered if I conveyed how dire my situation was to him. He woke right up and jumped out of bed trying to assess what was going on. I think I told him I was dying. I remember being unable to find a place of comfort and constantly moving on the bed to try and get away from the pain but nothing helped. It occurred to me if Tracy drove me to a hospital I would probably die in the car and I told him then to call 911. He did and it seemed like they asked 10,000 questions before telling him help was on the way. We waited forever for EMS to arrive and I told Tracy how much I loved him. I nearly lost consciousness around that time but when I heard the ambulance I felt a ray of hope...to be continued
We visited in the hotel room with Andy for a short time and then started getting ready for bed. The hotel was quite the little dive but it was late and I doubted there was much else available. Besides I was sooooo tired! We laid down and I fell right to sleep probably around midnight or a little after. I remember waking up once and I was hurting in my chest. But I repositioned myself in the bed and fell back asleep. The next time I woke up it was almost 4am. Man, my chest was killing me but as I rolled around I realized the pain was originating in my back, between my shoulder blades and then through toward the front in my chest.
I got out of bed and headed to the bathroom. As I walked the few steps to the bathroom door the pain became excruciating. I have had kidney stones, two babies, dental abscesses, gallbladder pain and all that added up together didn't touch this pain. At first I literally thought I was going to die from the pain itself. My mind is racing thinking what is going on? I'm thinking big stuff like a dissecting thoracic aneurysm, a blown out disc in my back, and then I broke out in a complete sweat, just sweat pouring off of me and the nausea hit me. Was this the virus going around Bowling Green I'd seen over and over the last two nights I worked? But what about this pain in my back and through to my chest?
I'm not sure how long I was in the bathroom, probably a few minutes, when the deepest sense of impending doom hit me. "I am going to die right here in this awful hotel bathroom, how sad!" I could barely stand, I didn't want to lay in the floor, I was confused and collapsing and somehow stumbled back to the bed calling for Tracy. By this time I am in full blown panic, more pain than I ever imagined possible combined with this sense that death was very near was spinning my head around but all I could do was struggle around to the bed trying to escape that pain.
Tracy wake up, something is bad wrong. I wondered if I conveyed how dire my situation was to him. He woke right up and jumped out of bed trying to assess what was going on. I think I told him I was dying. I remember being unable to find a place of comfort and constantly moving on the bed to try and get away from the pain but nothing helped. It occurred to me if Tracy drove me to a hospital I would probably die in the car and I told him then to call 911. He did and it seemed like they asked 10,000 questions before telling him help was on the way. We waited forever for EMS to arrive and I told Tracy how much I loved him. I nearly lost consciousness around that time but when I heard the ambulance I felt a ray of hope...to be continued
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