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A typical Sunday for Purpled includes a lazy morning, math tutoring and sometimes laundry.
Purpled's eyes fluttered open, briefly shutting again due to the light from his curtains not being fully closed. Turning over, he asks his Alexa to play the news while he stretched and made his bed.
by the time he walked down the stairs, it was about 11:30, so he did what every normal person would do and make a bowl of macaroni and cheese. Punz is leaving the laundry room, and starts talking.
"Oh yeah by the way tutoring is at two, be ready by 1:45"
Purpled groans, "fine, want to watch a hart of dixie?"
" start your laundry first, then we can" purpled nods in agreement and sets his food down, before heading back upstairs to grab his laundry.
Watching a show and starting laundry was quite uneventful, two hours go back and laundry is done, waiting to be folded while Purpled changed clothes and washed his face.
1:45 rolls around and he's ready to leave, except he feels a slight pain in his stomach but chooses to ignore it for the next hour.
After his tutoring was completed, his walked over to the local Starbucks when his cramping started to intensity, once again choosing to ignore it, orders a pumpkin spice latte and get into the car where Punz was sitting.
Purpled sips on his very hot latte when Punz asks, "how was tutoring? Learn something?"
"Boring and how bad I am at geometry, also I'm feeling very crampy, I'm gonna take some ibuprofen when we get home."
Both of them arrived home, Hearing the TV in the other room playing from his little brother dream, and lays down on the couch. Punz brings him some ibuprofen and walks back upstairs to read.
Purpled, now curled up on the gray couch, pats the couch to tell dogchamp to sit with him. Dogchamp ignores Purpled, so he walks upstairs to play on his phone and wait the cramps out.
Purpled had just barely laid down when he felt the sudden urge to vomit.
He ran to his bathroom and collapsed by his toilet, throwing up twice before getting up again. By then, his right side was in excruciating pain, continuous stabs radiating all over his body. He realized by then he had left his phone on his bed, so he used his apple watch to text punz the word " help" and hoped to god he would answer.
He finally got the energy to lay back on his bed, crying and curled up into a ball, and finally, Punz walks into the room
Waltzing in, Punz walks over nonchalantly and opens his mouth to speak "Purp you alright??" Purpled glares, before an eyelash stabs his eye. "I'm doing absolutely amazing! I've already thrown up Twice!" Punz rolls his eyes at the sarcasm, and tells Purpled he's retrieving a heating pad. Purpled tries to pass the time with scrolling through his phone, texting Boomer.
Bitchface: Help I am cramping so hard but I don't think its cramps
Frog: Thats not good, go take ibuprofen
Bitchface: I did that an hour ago it didn't do shit
Frog: yeah idk how to help you there im sorry man
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Purpled goes back to crying, when Punz walks back into the room with a heating pad, tells him what all the buttons mean, but Purpled is completely spaced out, trying to ignore the pain. Punz checks his temperature, making sure it wasnt a horrible stomach bug that was going around.
Purpled attempts to take a nap, hoping it'll dull the pain but it doesn't fully work, so he's stuck drifting in and out of consciousness for who knows how long.
A couple hours later, and a couple filled vomit bowls later, Punz cautiously walks back into the room to see how Purpled was doing. Like the other times he's walked in, Purpled has tear stains on his cheeks and is lying in the same position.
With a sad smile, he offers Purpled some water, which he takes, greatful for it, until he throws it up again.
At that point, punz is really starting to worry, the kid won't eat or drink anything, and sits there and cries.
By the time 6 o'clock rolls around, Punz decides to take Purpled to the cook children's about 15 minutes away to get him checked out. Purpled gave up on fighting going to the doctor, the pain becoming to much to walk around anymore. Punz attempts to call Ponk, who is unable to answer his phone due to his job, so Punz calls the center to ask them to get him off the sector asap since its an emergency. He then calls his friend Tina, to watch dream for a few hours while he takes Purpled to the doctor.
"hey tina, I need to run Purpled to cook's, could you watch dream till ponk gets home?"
"Everything alright?? And of course I'll watch him ill be there in ten"
Tina was there in less than 5 minutes, probably some speeding involved but Purpled didn't question it.
Purpled was ushered into the car, reclining the seat while Punz speeds down the highway, eventually arriving. They both walked in, Purpled going to sit down while Punz fills out a lifetime of paperwork.
He tries everything, laying down, sitting up, standing, and nothing would relieve his pain. He was given a couple vomit bags from a kind receptionist, and almost immediately threw up in it.
The pity glances were killing him. The looks from parents in the waiting room, the receptionist, and even Punz felt horrible.
Finally, after about half an hour of waiting, a doctor took him back, not even offering a wheelchair, which Purpled thought would've been helpful.
They took the regular tests, and left Purpled and Punz to their devices until two nurses walk back into the room to tell them that they need to go to the hospital right by the city's center, over a half an hour drive with good traffic. They also tell.him he's on a strict no food or drink ban so they can figure out what's wrong without him throwing up again. Punz speaks up, "can we just go to any emergency room instead of the one all the way over by the city center? What about Las navadas? They're like a ten minute drive." The nurse replies, "you can, but there's no promise that you'll be able to get the extra tests Purpled needs." "Worth a shot. " Purpled nods.
They both walk out of the cook children's, and decide to go to the closer hospital, its more familiar to purpled, and will hopefully get him in sooner rather than a huge hospital everyone vets sent to. After an excruciating car ride, they make it to the emergency room that Purpled was in less than a year ago for a different issue, and it still is dead quiet in there.
By now, Purpled is starting to shake violently, blaming the coolness of the hospital. Thankfully, Punz was able to sign paperwork quicker since Purpled is already in their system and walks him back to a room where he lays down on the bed in defeat. A nurse walks in and asks what's the issue while she takes his blood pressure and heart rate. The nurses name is niki, Purpled thought she was nice when she was taking his blood pressure.
Unfortunately, the doctor's office they were just at didn't give any of the test results to analyze, so they had to take them again, which caller for the waiting game of waiting for Purpled to need to go to the restroom. It was fruitless for them to try but its worth a shot.
They gave him four very warm blankets since they saw that he was very very cold, he appreciated that.
After about a half an hour later, niki comes back into the room to get Purpled's blood and to give him an IV so he can stop being dehydrated. Purpled is afraid of needless, like when they clean the skin he cries fear of needles, but this time he had no energy to fight this nurse and just let it happen. Punz was impressed to say the least, even last time he almost fought the nurse while in incredible pain from an ovarian cyst
(context real quick, I went to the ER last Thanksgiving from an ovarian cyst, and found out I have PCOS, so that's fun)
<p>Finally, Purpled was able to go to the restroom and give them the test again. Some time passed again and they were finally able to administer pain medication through an IV. He had just gave the vomit bags back to punz, assuming he won't be needing them anymore. As soon as it was administered, he immediately gestured to the bags and threw up immediately.
<p>The nurse was a little shocked, saying that "in my thirty years of nursing I have never seen or heard of this happening, interesting." Purpled tried to laugh through the pain, it still hurt too much to exist at that moment.
Purpled started texting his friends, since he was still, very much bored.
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Chug Jug: PURP WHAT?? ARE YOH OKAY WTF
Alien: I'm good, and yes uh idk what's going on yet
Chug jug: can i beat your ass in darts then??
Alien:. oh, you're on
Darts game ensues
Alien: I PLAYED WITH.ONE HAND AND MY ASS STILL WON
Chug jug: NOOO
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Purpled laughed, since he was starting to feel better when CT man came in with a wheelchair to escort him to the CT scan area.
The Voice of the machine still haunts him, the "breathe IN, HOLD,.BREATHE OUT" too many times will appear in your dreams.
After about an hour or so of talking to punz and talking to friends, the doctor finally arrives with a diagnosis,
Kidney stones.
Purpled Just busted into laughter, he couldn't believe it, kidney stones out of all things, first time for everything.
The doctor finishes her speech about kidney stones so he calls Ponk to tell him what happened
Ponk: got a diagnosis yet??
Purpled: "at (my age) years old, I have kidney stones, I feel so old now!"
Ponk: sputters in disbelief "well I'm glad you're okay."
The nurse walks back in, letting them know they can leave as soon as they get the papers to punz about the care and follow ups they need to have with specialists. Niki takes the IV out, and lets them know that the closest 24 hour pharmacy is over an hour away. They sigh, and leave, knowing that Purpled will be alright.
They arrive home, and Ponk offers to grab the medications needed for a recovery and Leaves to grab them before Purpled goes to bed. Punz and Purpled are both hungry, so they made some snacks but before they could fully heat up the breaker thing broke so Punz had to go fix it.
Really sums up his night right there.
Their food was still kinda cold after that even with fixing it, but they watched another hart of dixie until it was about 11, and Purpled goes upstairs to read and wait for ponk to give him his medication.
After an hour, punz walks in with his pills in his hand around 12:15, and he is finally able to sleep comfortably knowing he will be alright, and also he doesn't have to go to school the next day even though he had two tests that day, but he knows he's gonna fail them anyways so he sleeps happy and somewhat painless.