1st Night in 1404...

So I arrive in Room #1404 at Northwestern Memorial hospital feeling as nauseous one could possibly feel and yet I lay in my hospital bed with simply a basin and the Cubs on TV... Nurses were frantic in the room next door as a more serious catastrophe was taking place, yet I am there vomiting and vomiting and vomiting some more with still no nurse attention. We were off to a bad start. Finally the catastrophe next door was over and my nurse was able to come in and get me situated. I'll always remember my 1st nurse was Monica. She couldn't have been nicer to me that 1st night as I was sick as a dog and waiting to still see the admitting DR. After about an hour, a young DR comes to my room and greets me and my parents. Will was his name and DR was his game. Will proceeded to ask me what felt like never-ending questions which lasted for over an hour as I had to give him a complete medical history from birth (which I shared with Brett, my fraternal twin) until the current days activities. I told him all about my early struggles as an infant who was born a hemi-paresis, then was Growth Hormone Deficient, and then now this. My latest medical mystery that needed to be solved as fast as possible. Will finished his questions and then explained to me that they were going to attempt to do the 1st test they wanted done which was a CT Scan. Oh sure easy, right, CT Scan. Just lay there and let them take pictures right. WRONG!!! Here are 4 bottles of Barium Contrast that we need you to drink as much as you possibly can before the test in 2 hours. It was now 11pm and they were just asking me to drink 4 bottles of Barium. I couldn't even tolerate drinking water at this point --- How did Will expect me to be able to tolerate 4 bottles of pure Barium (raspberry flavored --- what a hoax). So i start with the 1st bottle and within maybe 15 seconds there was my mom holding the basin in front of me as the Barium came right back up and out and into the maroon basin (which would become 1 of my dearest friends in the hospital since it was used so often). So Monica was called immediately by me pressing the RED NURSE button on the remote control. This button would also become 1 of my nearest and dearest friends in the hospital as I pressed the button probably over 1000 times in my stay. Monica called Will and it was decided that we'd skip this test for now. Good idea genius. I didn't have to be a DR to know that doing a GI test that required a patient who has now been nauseous and vomiting for 2 months to drink Barium. But oh well. Zofran (nausea medicine --- another 1 of my hospital best friends), Ambien (sleeping pill) and Night-Night...