I stayed up late Tuesday packing everything to be ready to go in the morning, including a backpack full of snacks to keep with me. We got up early Wednesday, showered, packed shower stuff, and headed to get the oil changed before the trip. Dropped off the car (2 hours?!) and walked to the donut shop for breakfast. That went well, car was ready, and we headed off at 11am-ish. GPS estimated the trip to be 14.5 hours. We speed a little (totally guilty) and we stop for bathroom breaks and quick foods. I was thinking maybe 15 hours total, which would put us there at 2am. I have been drinking copious amounts of water every day to prevent headaches, and I quickly learned that is not a fun habit in a car trip. So I started not drinking as much water, and got a migraine as it was getting dark. Bright lights on a road is just about the worst thing I could have been looking at =/ It kept getting worse and worse and I had (well, George did) to pull over to throw up around midnight. I layed down in the back, but I just felt pretty terrible the last few hours. We ended up getting into the hotel just before 4am, and crashed on the comfy bed. Our plan was going to be to get up at a decent time for an event at 1pm Thursday, but nope. Sleep is better.
Thursday we got up something like 1pm and headed over to the convention. They were out of landards for badges (!?!?) but I saved the day by having yarn in the backpack =) We talked to the creator of Killer Bunnies (who knows George from past Gencons) and jumped into a demo of the newest game in the line- Heros vs Villains. We got raffle tickets for playing, and I WON the raffle! That was pretty awesome. We met up with our friends and ate dinner at an Irish pub, that had GREAT mashed potatoes. I got extra to-go. Back to the convention center to walk around and figure out where things were. George and Megan got shakes from Steak-n-Shake and we continued walking, me eating mashed potatoes while walking. Hey, it is better than eating candy! Lol. We went back to the hotel early to get a full nights sleep. Got there around 10pm and headed to bed.
I woke up around midnight (to pee, of course) with EXTREME pain in my chest. I tried to lay back down to see if it went away in a few minutes (pregnancy comes with all kinds of weird pains I have learned) but it got a lot worse. I woke up George and we rushed to the nearest ER. Got there a total of 25 minutes after I first woke up. I got an EKG, which was normal. The doctor was thinking it might be a blood clot, so I got a CAT scan. (With contrast, which was really weird feeling.) Baby was exposed to radiation, which is not that great, but we did not really have choices. A blood clot would be a whole lot worse. The up-side (I guess) is that radiation in the 2nd trimester does the least amount of potential harm. Anyways, while waiting for the results, the pain got worse. I am really good at pain tolerance in general, but this got up to a 10. I don’t think I have ever actually told a nurse/doctor my pain was 10/10, but I was writhing in agony and it was uber terrible. They rushed me some morphine directly into my IV. It made the pain only mostly go away, which is even more crazy. The CAT scan was normal, which means they ruled out the 2 things that can cause chest pain that are super dangerous, and I was sent back to the hotel with orders to return if anything changes. And pain killers. Finally got back around 4:30am. So much for a full night’s sleep and early morning =/
Friday morning we woke up around 1pm, again. Walking around or pretty much doing anything remotely difficult or stressful made my chest hurt. I told George he could go do whatever fun activities he wanted, but I was going to go park myself in the craft room and knit. I got a lot of progress on a sleep sack, and I happen to hit the magic awesome pooling number! We ate dinner in the connected mall after plans with friends fell though because of time issues. A&W Chilli cheese fries! YUM! We headed back to the hotel early and I caught up a little with the nest and I did the sorting form before early bed =)
Saturday morning we actually got up in time for breakfast! The hotel had biscuits and sausage gravy, which is something George and I both miss from the South =) The pain in my chest was gone (with the bottle of painkillers untouched, yay!) so we walked around the vendor hall and picked up some cool dice and the last 2 expansions of Dominion. Had lunch with friends at Steak-n-Shake. We have a friend in Boston who LOVES DrunkQuest a ton. He made this crown out of a beer box and gems and glitter and such. We found the creator of the game and then brought the crown to him to get it signed. He thought it was awesome =P Then I had a chainmaille class at 4pm. Yes, at a gaming convention. It was under “spouse activities” as was the craft room. That lasted until 6pm and I have an awesome Slytherific bracelet that I need to photograph =) Then we had dinner with the creator of Killer Bunnies and the rest of our friends. After that, most of us went to the games library and played Shadows Over Camelot, which was a lot of fun. Got back to the hotel around midnight.
Sunday I wanted to sleep in, but George wanted to hang out early. I woke up at 8am and called him (he was downstairs) and he was like, “GOOD! RUSH RUSH WE HAVE TO DRIVE PEOPLE!” Ahh! That was not a kind way to wake up. At all. But everything was packed and ready to go and we drove some people so everything fit in cars (2 were flying home) and blah. I was sleepy. We played Shadows over Camelot again, but this time with one person being a secret traitor, which was interesting =) Then I got coffee. I was sleepy. I got to buy the pliers I used in the chainmaille class at 1pm (after her last class) so, AWESOME! Mine are bad or something, because it was way easier in the class than things I did things on my own. We left around lunchtime to head back home. The trip was mostly uneventful. We stopped for the night near Buffalo, NY.
Monday was just more driving. I had a migraine Monday night, but I kept being on my computer anyways, and ended up throwing up =/ Grr. Yesterday I had a migraine, AGAIN. Then guess what friendly face is here again now!? This seriously needs a solution. I have been drinking tons of water, I have been eating meals, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!
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