My trip to VGH
This was my second trip to the ER this week, once for Paolo and once for myself. However this time I was admitted right away, apparently this was a real emergency. I think once the check in clerk told me that I started to get scared.
Let's give some background as to why I was at VGH. I was at a baby shower for a co-worker of mine. We had dinner at Top Gun hot pot which was fine because we went out the month before. However, my co-workers ordered Satay broth which has peanuts in it. I didn't know until my co-worker asked if it was too hot for me because it was a satay. At that point the explained the swollen lip I had and proceeded to take Benedryl at 6:30 pm. After that the people at the restaurant replaced the broth pot with a new one and we started over. I felt okay after that but I didn't eat a whole lot afterwards. My friend drove me home and I started to feel nauseous at that point. I went home and tried to throw up but that didn't work. At that point I started to have trouble breathing and became wheezey. I text messaged Paolo at 9:27 pm telling him that I was feeling really sick. So I thought about going to bed early to sleep it off because that's what I usually do if I'm not feeling well. But for some reason I went to see my mom and my mom said we had to go to the hospital right away because my whole face was swollen.
It took less than 5 minutes to be admitted after the 2 person line up in front of me. Once I got a bed, 2 nurses were already working on me with an IV with saline, a shot of Benedryl, a dosage of epipherine (adrenaline) and oxygen to help me breathe. I started to feel really nauseous all the sudden from the Benedryl and started to cough uncontrollably for about 30 seconds. The 2 nurses and doctor and everyone else that could see me were looking ... at least that's what I saw before I started to cough. According to my mom there were 4 people working on me ... I didn't count the guy because he didn't do a whole lot, but I guess because this was severe case it's better to have more people helping. At this point my heartbeat was at 180 and the doctor said that my body was trying to compensate from the anaphylactic attack that I was having. Later on it went to 150 and then down to 116. The epipherine made my heart race too, so that was freaky. I think my face and my upper half of my body was all red from rashes, my lips were still swollen and my eyes were swollen too. After about an hour, my face started to go back to normal, but I can still notice that my eyes are a bit puffy.
I'm still kind of drowsy from the Benedryl and I still need to study .. I'm glad that this didn't happen today or else I'd be fucked. So lessoned learned, ask what's in the broth ... and no more hot pot for me.
Let's give some background as to why I was at VGH. I was at a baby shower for a co-worker of mine. We had dinner at Top Gun hot pot which was fine because we went out the month before. However, my co-workers ordered Satay broth which has peanuts in it. I didn't know until my co-worker asked if it was too hot for me because it was a satay. At that point the explained the swollen lip I had and proceeded to take Benedryl at 6:30 pm. After that the people at the restaurant replaced the broth pot with a new one and we started over. I felt okay after that but I didn't eat a whole lot afterwards. My friend drove me home and I started to feel nauseous at that point. I went home and tried to throw up but that didn't work. At that point I started to have trouble breathing and became wheezey. I text messaged Paolo at 9:27 pm telling him that I was feeling really sick. So I thought about going to bed early to sleep it off because that's what I usually do if I'm not feeling well. But for some reason I went to see my mom and my mom said we had to go to the hospital right away because my whole face was swollen.
It took less than 5 minutes to be admitted after the 2 person line up in front of me. Once I got a bed, 2 nurses were already working on me with an IV with saline, a shot of Benedryl, a dosage of epipherine (adrenaline) and oxygen to help me breathe. I started to feel really nauseous all the sudden from the Benedryl and started to cough uncontrollably for about 30 seconds. The 2 nurses and doctor and everyone else that could see me were looking ... at least that's what I saw before I started to cough. According to my mom there were 4 people working on me ... I didn't count the guy because he didn't do a whole lot, but I guess because this was severe case it's better to have more people helping. At this point my heartbeat was at 180 and the doctor said that my body was trying to compensate from the anaphylactic attack that I was having. Later on it went to 150 and then down to 116. The epipherine made my heart race too, so that was freaky. I think my face and my upper half of my body was all red from rashes, my lips were still swollen and my eyes were swollen too. After about an hour, my face started to go back to normal, but I can still notice that my eyes are a bit puffy.
I'm still kind of drowsy from the Benedryl and I still need to study .. I'm glad that this didn't happen today or else I'd be fucked. So lessoned learned, ask what's in the broth ... and no more hot pot for me.
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