Happy Birthday to Amber - Not

I had the greatest birthday celebration....you are going to be so jealous. For my birthday I was admitted to the hospital, doesn't that sound fun! Ok, your right it wasn't fun at all. In all seriousness I think the weekend qualified as the worst weekend in my life. It started on Friday when I got a miserable headache. I tried everything tylenol, advil, excedrin, oxycodone (pain meds that they gave me from knee surgery), vice grips, a hammer, etc. Nothing was making a dent in the pain. By Sunday morning (my birthday) I was miserable! I had been in tears multiple times and I told Steve that this just wasn't a normal headache. Steve took me to the ER at Tripler, they did a cat scan and a spinal tap and came to the conclusion that I had aseptic meningitis. It isn't contagious so I'm not going to spread it to any of you. They think that it was caused by a drug called Mobic that I had been taking after knee surgery. I guess this medicine has been known to cause meningitis in some people....isn't that fabulous. So I am now out of the hospital but still pretty miserable. I feel good as long as I am laying down (which is why I am typing this slouched down in the chair as far as I can with my head cocked to the side resting on the arm rest) but when I get up I am reminded that someone is stabbing knifes into my head. I don't recommend this birthday gift to anyone! :)