SCARY STORY

On Tuesday I was at work and got a text from my friend Holly that said. Laura fainted. I asked as many questions as possible, but all I figured out was that she had fainted in the SWKT. There were EMTs that happened to be passing by that were able to help her. Holly had to leave to class so that's all we knew. Laura wasn't answering her phone. So I walked home, and found her in bed with all the lights out. I took my studying outside, and waited for her to get up. At about 6 she got up and said she needed to go to the bathroom. I took her inside... she got threw up. I didn't know what to do at all. So I just sort of hovered. I finally had the inspiration to ask she needed anything like a blessing or anything like that. She told me that yes she did want a blessing and to text her friend. I got right on it!

I texted said friend and he left class and came over at about 6:30. She didn't think she wanted to do stairs. So I went to three different RA rooms until finally someone was at least able to help me out and get the linen closet open. On the way down, we stopped in the bathroom. This time instead of standing around like a loser, I at least held her up while she was being sick. We took Laura downstairs-- completely deathly pale. Really freaky! She got the blessing and we took her right back upstairs, and everything seemed okay.

So Holly and I went to grab a fast dinner, leaving Laura with the instruction that she was supposed to call us if she needed anything. We got a text a little into dinner that said "Hey. Can you come back?"

We picked up our trays and literally ran to the room (I had my backpack on...). We found out that she fainted again... The EMTs said if anything persisted we were to call them again. I had no idea what to do!! So Holly took care of everything! Like everything, and she stayed calm and asked good questions. She was like a super good life-saver.

The EMTs showed up. They were so helpful, except for the fact that they don't deal with this kind of thing a lot I think. If Laura was bleeding or had a broken arm I'm sure they could have helped in a heart beat... but... she was just fainting and throwing up. They took her vitals again... but they had know idea what to do. They did say however that fainting for no apparent reason is not good so we should go to the hospital.

Which we did. One of the girls on our floor was recruited and she went to get her car. ... small side story.. this week is safety week so we had a fire-drill planned... So as Laura is getting all packed up and ready to go.. The fire-alarm goes off. And she starts getting sick again. So just as we're leaving the shut the fire-alarm off..

We took Laura to the ER. They got her in soonish.. and we called the Bishop... It was about 8:15 when we called and he lives pretty far away so we got Laura back into a room and the Bishop was there by 9:30. Sister Miner and Bishop Miner are GREAT people. They just love us so much and I'm pretty sure that there is absolutely now way they even knew who I was, but they showed up and loved us. It was so great!

They decided that Laura had the stomach flu and she was fainting because it was lowering her blood-pressure... although she started getting sick AFTER she fainted.. but the Dr. seemed like he knew what he was talking about? They put in an IV to get her blood pressure up and put 2 bags into her arm before they let her go home. They Bishop then drove us home at around 12. It was a super stressful night! I missed home so much, because stuff like this never happens at home.. at least not with me dealing with it. When Sister Miner hugged me when she showed up I almost started crying! She just hugs like a mom! I missed that too!

We finally got home around 12 and this was waiting on our door:

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(<--- Super cute door with all the notes and such! love my hall!

So-- that was my night last night! Pretty stressful, but we're all so glad that Laura is doing so much better already! (Sorry for the hecka long post!)

p.s. My awesome sister Dawn's birthday is today!!! I'm also grateful for her and the amazing example she has always been! I can't wait to (hopefully) party it up on Friday and see her! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAWN! <3