[capt_noonie]

Thanks nancy. Yeah the whole ordeal was very scary and touch and go for a while.

I also went back and read the whole thread. Thanks to everyone and your prayers and thoughts. I missed a lot of posts!

Now that I am better I guess I should explain in more detail what led up to the hospitalization. The night of sept 28 I woke in the night to a tummy ache. I thought it was indigestion so I took some Pepto, which usually helps. It didn't. I tried to sleep it off and tried to poop in the morning thinking I just needed to go, but I could not and my stomach hurt a lot just trying to go. Then my legs and arms started to tingle with pins and needles. I tried to go back to sleep but couldn't and was sweating bullets. My leg strength was waning and I could only move My legs with the use of my arms. Soon after I had a violent vomiting episode and knew something was seriously wrong.

I complained to bf and asked him to massage my legs and arms bc the pins and needles were getting really irritating and painful. My stomach was really hurting at this point and I thought I had appendicitis and would need surgery. After a few hours I begged bf to take me to the hospital. At this point my hands were locked up claw like and I could to move them at all. Once we were at the ER I couldn't really move at all. My face was even getting paralyzed.

They checked me in really quickly and gave me a MRI and ct scan. They told me the locking up was likely an electrolyte imbalance. My legs and arms were all super tense. They said thankfully it wasnt a stroke bc it was both sides of my body and not just one side. Now I wonder if I would have rather had the stroke! I think it was at this point they told me the pancreatitis was triggered by alcohol.

I also had a fever at this point and I remember them giving me Motrin to sweat it out and that was horrible. After this first day I don't remember much. The pics I saw that bf took of me during the "lost days" are very scary and disturbing so I won't post them here.

The doctors did not tell me everything wrong with me at my sister's request. She didn't want it to scare me. It wasn't until after I started getting better I found out that not only did I have the severe pancreatitis, I also had respiratory failure and liver failure. Thankfully my kidneys were not affected. After I got the breathing tube out, so many nurses commented that I looked so much better. I did not recognize a single one of them!