Once the results came back, I was diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia. Around this time, I started to feel stomach and chest pain, so the doctor checked me for appendicitis. It came up as negative. Mom and I left the doctor and went to the pharmacy to get meds. They said it would take a while, approximately 20 minutes, so we went to the grocery store to get me a drink, as I was very thirsty. .
Mom left me in the car; she wasn't in the store for five minutes before my abdominal area started to burn suddenly. Because of the sudden and shocking pain, I was left breathless in a matter of seconds. The pain was so sharp that I couldn't gasp for breath; it felt like my lungs were filling with fluid. Time moved slowly, and it seemed like an eternity, before my Mom came out of the store. I was already out of the car, trying not to cry and scream, but not doing a good job of ignoring the pain. I started hobbling over to the store. I was halfway to the doors of the store, when mom came rushing to me, asking me what's wrong. I could barely tell her that we needed to go to the hospital and my abdomen was on fire. .
My mom wrote in her journal about what happened once we headed back to the hospital, "Brennan said his abdomen was in unbelievable pain. We drove back to the doctors' office. Brennan was unable to walk in. Doc said to go to the ER (across the parking lot). We drove to the ER. Wheeled him in by wheelchair. He was in an unreal amount of pain by this point." The ER gave me IV's, pain meds, and antibiotics because my vital signs were not good, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. My heart rate was 150 (the average adult resting heart-rate is 60-100 beats per minute), SATS (oxygen saturation in blood) were 95. The doctors also ran complete blood count (CBC) and cultures. They put me on oxygen to help stabilize my vitals. With two doses of morphine and two bags of fluid, my vitals were not stabilizing.