Scary story with a LOL ending:
So, my S.O. has been undergoing some fairly serious medical treatment recently. Taking drugs with lists of side effects that begin with "heart damage" and get worse from there. That's not the scary part, it's just context. For the most part, she's avoided serious side effects.
All last weekend, though, she was waking up with fever in the 102-104 range, severe headache, body aches, and heavy coughing. The fever and pain was controllable with ibuprofen and acetaminophen, and on Saturday she actually felt pretty good in the evening.
Monday morning at 3AM she wakes up with (in her words) very scary chest pain and difficulty breathing. "Like someone was squeezing my heart." It lasted about 30 minutes and then she went back to sleep.
(I should note at this point that she does not live with me, and did not call me. If I had known about the chest pain, she would have enjoyed an ambulance ride.)
So a little later in the morning (after waking up with another 103.4 fever, headache, coughing, etc.) she was coughing so hard that it caused her to dry heave, and there was some blood in the "foam" that came out.
Like I said, scary story. Wait for the LOL.
When she finally called me and told me about the blood, I left work and took her to the hospital. Her regular doctor (the one managing her ongoing treatment) said that either the chest pain or the coughing up blood was enough for a ticket into the hospital, so they kept her overnight for observation.
They did every blood and urine test known, along with an EKG, a vascular ultrasound, and an upper G.I. endoscopy (here, swallow this camera) but everything was negative. The fever and coughing and headache were still hanging around, but besides bronchitis nothing serious seemed to be going on.
So Tuesday morning the cardiologist comes in for a consult and to do an echocardiogram (an ultrasonic exam of the heart.) He applied the goo and pressed the ultrasonic sensor against her chest and she told him she felt the same chest pain as she had felt Monday morning.
Odd, thought the cardiologist. So he just pressed on her chest in a few places and she said yes, it hurts just like it did Monday.
"Did you work out in the last couple of days?" he asked.
"Well, I'm the drummer for a band in a Rock Band tournament..."
The $500-per-hour cardiologist and his two $100-per-hour residents had a good laugh about that. Diagnosis: muscle spasm caused by strain from recent physical activity.
So $5,000 worth of tests to figure out that she was drumming a little too energetically Saturday night.
The rest of the symptoms were explained by the doctors thusly:
Body aches - known side effect of her ongoing treatment
Headache - caused by fever
Fever - we have no clue
Coughing - caused by bronchitis
Coughing Blood - irritation in the lungs due to bronchitis
Bronchitis - we have no clue
Sucks about all the other stuff man, but glad to hear it was nothing serious! I'll make sure I stretch before I play next time! 
