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Lisa read my blog this morning, and noticed that I had not posted anything about what happened last week. The reason for this is because I didn’t think she’d want me to, but turns out, she does! Apologies in advance for any planet spam.

At 4am on Tuesday morning, Lisa woke up with incredible abdominal pains. She wouldn’t let me take her to hospital, in case ‘nothing was wrong’. Her being curled up on the floor unable to move didn’t inspire me to think ‘nothing was wrong’, but I digress. She did let me call NHS direct, and the guy on the end of the phone went through his symptom script, and couldn’t give a diagnosis. He arranged for one of the nurses to call us back. About 10 minutes later, the nurse rang, went through the same sript, and still couldn’t come to any diagnosis. She said she would get Lisa’s GP to call us.

About 20 minutes later, a local nurse called (not the GP) and advised to take a couple of whatever painkillers we had, and she would call back in an hour or so to see what effect they had had. The 2 500mg Ipruprofen had no effect whatsoever, so the same nurse came around to do an examination. The examination could not determine what was wrong, so she advised me to take Lisa to A&E.

Now, Goole Hospital no longer has an A&E department, so I was given the Choice of Hull Royal, or Scunthorpe, and given a letter to hand to the staff when I got there. We opted for Scunthorpe, and took off. On arrival at Scunthorpe, Lisa was then examined by the Triage nurse, and admitted to A&E, when the doctor suspected a twisted ovarian cyst, and diagnosed some Morphine. This was the first time Lisa had been able to stop crying for 3 hours. Fairly soon, she was admitted to a ward, and we were to wait for a non-A&E doctor to come and examine her. After another 4 hours, and several requests for more painkillers, a doctor arrived, and recommended an internal examination. This examination revealed nothing new, but did open up a couple of other possibilities: Kidney Stones or a Kidney Infection, and allowed Lisa to have some Painkillers.

A couple of days later, and Ultrasound scan was requested. The ultrasound revealed that there were no kidney stones, but the presence of a fairly large ovarian cyst (about 4×5x8cm). The cyst was not twisted or ruptured however, so the cause of the pain had been narrowed down to an infection. Antibiotics were produced, and the pain began to subside. As a result of this, Lisa was allowed home this weekend. She does have to go back to the Hospital (at Scunthorpe still) tomorrow, as she has an MRI scan scheduled (for ‘early in the week’) to check that there is nothing nasty (apart from the size of it) about the cyst. If not, she will be booked for an operation to remove it at Goole hospital in approximately 4-6 weeks.

And there we are, the full story so far.