Saturday, June 12, 2010

Final destination: America

Woke up at 5 am gathered our 70 pounds of luggage each and caught a taxi to the airport. 15 minutes and 45 dollars later, we were standing in line to checkin to go home :)
we were 3 hours early so sat around and shopped in all the duty free shops. When we got to the gate we got patted down, got all our bags searched and even shoes and jackets, then got our passports checked. We were so confused why they were doing this at the gate after we did all this at security and checkin. They said they only do it for flights into America.
We got on the plane and began the movie watching... 3 movies and 2 meals later I was still awake and couldn't have been more frustrated! I wanted to sleep because obviously that makes a 15 hour flight go by a little quicker. I finally fell asleep but 30 minutes later woke up all lightheaded and sick to my stomach.... I jumped out of my seat and climbed over the Aussie who was passed out from a valum and went straight to the bathrooms but they were occupied. I could barely talk and just yelled to the flight attendants who were standing there I felt sick. I was on the verge of fainting and extremely hot and dizzy and fell to the ground. Next thing I know I'm laying on the ground in front of the exit row and 3 doctors from the plane were asking me a hundred questions. My blood pressure was 62 over 80 so they were all concerned and took my blood sugar level etc etc. After I cooled off I ended up feeling much better. Katelyn was standing on the side of all this so confused because last thing she knew I was going to the bathroom. She came up to me and we laughed because of the scene I had caused. So after all this paperwork and once my blood pressure went back up they let me go back to my seat. The doctors said if I needed them just to come to their seat and I said oh no I'll be fine don't worry about it! Of course that wasn't the case.... I fell asleep for an hour and woke up and immediately got the same feeling as last time but this one couldn't get up and could barely talk. Katelyn ran to the back of the plane grabbed the doctors and could barely talk she was so concerned. It's all kind of blurry but I know Katelyn and the Aussie sat in the back of the plane and the doctors sat next to me for the rest of the flight. I got sick and blood pressure went down again so they called the paramedics on the ground to have them meet us at the gate. We were beginning the landing when I got sick, great timing right? We landed and by that time my blood pressure was back to normal but the medics still wanted to see me so they blocked the aisle on the plane so they could get on and they escorted me out then put me in a wheel chair and checked all sorts of things from this machine thing. Ther were 2 guys from the LAFireDept who were also emts, and 2 policemen, the captain of the plane, a lady to wheel me around the airport, and an ambulance hahaha could I have made any more of an entrance back to the states? I got wheeled the back way to customs and got to the front of the line and also the front of the security line and Katelyn got to join in on the special treatment. Poor Katelyn got stuck with her backpack and mine! She also was stuck pushing a cart with my 2 suitcases and her 2! What a good friend! We got to the gate and thankfully one of the doctors from our first flight was on our next one to atl and the captain who was there when I got sick was also riding on the plane. Our next flight went by quickly, I slept for majority of it and woke up feeling fine! We got to atl and I went up the escalator and Tyler was waiting there with a dozen pink roses :) He definitely made my day so much better! Saturday we got the opportunity to head to Nashville for CMA fest and see rascal flatts, Easton Corbin, Billy currington, Randy houser, martina mcbride, and zac brown band.... So of course Tyler and I took the offer and before I was even home for a day we left for Nashville! Clearly it's going to be a while before I get over this jet lag!

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