er visits and cowboy boot lamps

today we spent about 3 hours at tgh making sure i hadn't developed a blood clot in my leg after a severe charley horse three nights ago. now, i've had cramps and charley horses before, but the pain always went away after the cramp stopped--the pain NEVER lasted for DAYS, so i called my dad and asked him if he'd ever had such a thing happen to him.

now, you may ask, why would you call your dad, he's a nonpregnant male? well, i remember him having severe cramps in the middle of the night occasionally when i was growing up, so i just wanted to know if he'd ever had persistent pain after a charley horse in the middle of the night. he said that this had only happened to him once, and after a few days, my mom convinced him to go to the doctor and long story short, he had a blood clot in his calf. in his case, the clot was not threatening, the doctor advised him to take some alieve and that was it.

after talking to my dad, i called aetna's 24 hr nurse and talked to her. she advised that i go see a doctor. then i called my midwife practice and spoke to the on-call midwife. the on-call midwife said that i should come down to tgh to have an ultrasound done on my leg to rule out a blood clot.

there's no point in dragging this out any longer...after three-ish hours at tgh, there was no blood clot to be found. maybe i pulled a muscle in my leg during the charley horse?? who knows. all i know is that's three hours of my life i'll never get back and i still feel like i wasted kenny's day off. oh well, it is what it is.

even after our adventures in the er, kenny was still able to do one of the items on his list for today. when we got home, we ate dinner, and then kenny started on carter's cowboy boot lamps! they're partly finished, as in, you can see what they're going to look like when they're ready to use, but he hasn't run the electrical part through yet! i'll post a pic soon!