Ambulance call

It was only a couple of weeks later that I experienced yet another partial obstruction.  I started to feel yet more waves of pain one Wednesday evening. I waited eagerly for diarrhoea to start. All night the pain kept coming. I started too feel nauseous, but still nothing happened all night. By the morning I started to be sick, and I just about managed to drag myself out of bed and down to the phone to phone my work and let them know I wouldn't be in. My mum kept looking at me anxiously. We discussed if it was time to call an ambulance. She kept saying "when will it be 24 hours"
I kept saying tomorrow morning. The consultant had said if I hadn't been able to keep anything down for 24 hours.
 Somehow I just knew I shouldn't, or even couldn't wait 24 hours. We tried to call my gp and my consultant for advice, just to avoid calling the emergency services if it wasn't necessary. We were still waiting for a call back from somebody, anybody, and I just said "just call an ambulance"  it was at that moment I really felt terrible. The vomit had become definite faeces by now. I was reaching right down in the pit of my gut. I was dizzy, it was brown, and the smell was wretched.

The ambulance was really quick to arrive. I didn't have to convince them it was an obstruction and not an ibs a flare that's for sure. They could tell immediately.


The ambulance journey to a and e seemed like the longest journey I'd ever made. The paramedic kept asking me what my pain score was on a scale of one to ten. If I wanted it they would give me morphine and an anti sickness. I knew that to do that they'd have to pull into the side of the road, a and the journey would take even longer. I just told them the score was two. I just wanted to be at the hospital. If I wanted to be at the hospital that badly, I must have been in quite a state! I must have used six or seven sick bowls in the one hour journey. Man was I glad to finally be wheeled into accident and emergency. What happened when I finally got there? Well you'll just have to read my next post to find out!