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Thinline back in hospital
Well two days into my new heart meds and I am in hospital!!!! My chest shut down totally last night and I had to be rushed to the ER cause I couldn't breathe much at all. I got magnesium sulphate luckily which eased things a bit. Now the big question...... am I reacting to the new heart meds or did I just have an asthma attack which has put me into bronchospasm?????? I've been scared of taking this unapproved drug since it was first mentioned because there is not a great deal known about it and now this has happened. I have not even let the cardio know yet as I'm in a different hospital to where he is and I suspect he's going to go postal when he finds out. Guess there's no time like the present to let him know. Will let you know what happens.
Thinline's morning update. Had a good sleep last night - see morphine is GOOD for you not BAD for you. Will have another shot later today before I see my little boy. My chest is still tight and very wheezy but seems to be some improvement with the high doses of steroids (good thing I'm not in the Tour de France - I'd be given the boot for sure - Oh yes I forgot, I wouldn't make the first hundred yards so what would it matter anyway). Could go for the King of the mountains though since I'm looking so huge and swollen from all the cortisone - I'd be a shoo in for that award - no contest and the big red spots on he Jersey would compliment my moon-face and red skin perfectly!!!! Must be getting better since I'm finding things to laugh at again, yay! Maybe I could even wear the shirt when I pretend I'm Santa? Stick some cotton wool about my face, and nobody would have a clue.
I have just proclaimed today "no feeling sorry for myself day". Maybe a bit of a more positive attitude will get me out of the grump. I'm going to drink some wheatgrass now to try detox some of all these drugs in my body. My little guy is on his way to see me and I can't wait, so far so good! The nurse is even on her way in with the morphone shot so things are truly looking up.
I have just proclaimed today "no feeling sorry for myself day". Maybe a bit of a more positive attitude will get me out of the grump. I'm going to drink some wheatgrass now to try detox some of all these drugs in my body. My little guy is on his way to see me and I can't wait, so far so good! The nurse is even on her way in with the morphone shot so things are truly looking up.
Well the bag packing and crying sorted things out chop-chop! I had a morphine injection about 2 minutes after the nurse caught me packing up to go home. She was onto the doc in flash. I helped me enormously although I'm still in serious discomfort. I suspect I may have pulled some back muscles from coughing so much and I think I've got pleurisy as well. Croup seems another real posssiblity even though it is very rare in adults.
Have taken some sleeping muti earlier, am going for a short walk and then off to bed. So glad my semi-regular doc will be back tomorrow, I thought we were going to come to blows over the morphine!
Had to re-sit my drip earlier, no veins left at all now - took them six goes to get it in. I'm going to request an A-Port tomorrow, my veins just can't handle all this cortisone. Will keep you all filled in on the trials and triblulations of my hospital stay. Good thing is that my BP has come right down again! See I don have good things to say somethimes too!
Goodnight everyone.
Have taken some sleeping muti earlier, am going for a short walk and then off to bed. So glad my semi-regular doc will be back tomorrow, I thought we were going to come to blows over the morphine!
Had to re-sit my drip earlier, no veins left at all now - took them six goes to get it in. I'm going to request an A-Port tomorrow, my veins just can't handle all this cortisone. Will keep you all filled in on the trials and triblulations of my hospital stay. Good thing is that my BP has come right down again! See I don have good things to say somethimes too!
Goodnight everyone.
Hey everyone. Your words of support are keeping me going. I don't know what I would have done without my laptop and Internet connection. You are right Pika, I can't get to the "ghost" place either. So my daily update is that my chest has opened up a bit, obviously the massive doses of cortisone are helping. I have an abnormal form of asthma (surprise surprise) and I don't respond all that well to steroids which is why we are now going over the top with them.
I must say that this morning I felt much better than I do now. I'm in agony and no matter what I'm given for pain it is not working. I can't breathe deeply because it feels like I'm being stabbed in the back by daggers (well since I'm in Africa I suppose spears would be a more appropriate). Ha we love being South African even if we moan about it all the time. American's have funny sayings which we call "Americanisms", here in SA we call ours "South Africanisms". We have a special dictionary just full of South Africanisms and its a side splitting read, but because we have 11 official languages (go figure I can only speak two and a bit and about 10 Hebrew words) even we find some of them a bit of a challenge. Good for a laugh anyway.
I have requested that they call the doctor back in to see me but the one on duty this week-end doesn't seem overly keen on me or giving me strong pain meds. I'm seriously going to let rip when I see her. What the heck am I doing here if they won't give me stronger meds to control my pain especially when the pain makes breathing even more difficult. Unfortunately my regular pulmonogist is on holiday and he understands that I have an extremely high pain threshold and that if I cry from pain then its time to do some serious drug therapy! I wonder if she will even come back because I know she's not wild about seeing me. Maybe its time for me to page her and get her back in here to sort things out - ok see why she does not like me, I'm not the easiest patient, but I've got such a long and complicated medical history that I know my rights and I know my body, and a lot of doctors find that really hard to deal with.
Here's some advice for you all. Always choose a Jewish doctor. This has nothing with my religion, they just seem to have "something special". Maybe its being so over protected by their Jewish moms (everything you hear about Jewish moms and mom-in-laws is true by the way), and so I think they have some extra compassion. Jews are also renowned for their "guilt" issues so maybe that also has something to do with it, they feel guilty if they don't make you better so they just try harder. If any non-Jewish doc reads this don't be offended, this is my personal view and I do have non-Jewish docs too and I really love them!!!! One of our best friends is a Hindu and he aslo will only see Jewish docs, we find this rather amusing, but he will not allow any of his family members to see non-Jewish docs and funny enough his wife is a nurse who specialised in paediatrics and she totally agrees with him.
Ireneo, I could not get ahold of the cardio - our cell phone network packed in on Friday (third world country remember) and so I will give him a call on the morrow. It does not seem to be related to the meds though and I agree I wish it was because it would be a much simpler solution. Still just out of courtesy I will let him know what is going on. The cardio here at this hospital came to see me on Friday and promised to come back in yesterday and has not been back. He declined to treat me anysya. Says its not his field. He did say that he thinks I should carry on with the new meds though, so once things settle with my chest I think I will start taking them again. See if they do any good.
Must tell you a last thing. This morning my blood pressure went through the roof it was 220/110 - charming. Apparently its from the huge doses of cortisone I'm on. Just one more thing to worry me. They checked it a while ago and its down a bit so I guess I should just not let it bug me, its obviously going to be a bit on the up and down side.
Right, I'm either off to find someone to contact my doctor to get me onto stronger pain meds or I'm signing out of here. I will NOT sign an AMA as the hospital and doctor retain responsibility to the patient if you don't sign, so that covers me pretty well. They may have to tie me to the bed, but one way or the other they are going to sort out this pain of mine. Will keep you informed and once again thanks for the support.
Pika great to speak to you again. Keep your head about you. I think you handle yourself really well and I admire and respect that even if you panic sometimes.
Ireneo thanks for the mails, I enjoy them, very informative. Will keep in touch.
Vienna you around? Knightrider? Any of the others?
Ha the nurse just came in and caught me packing my bag, seems to have inspired her into some sort of action. She has gone off to phone the doctor!!! Nothing like a threat to get things done, so hopefully I will be blissfully pain free soon, if not I'm out of here.
I must say that this morning I felt much better than I do now. I'm in agony and no matter what I'm given for pain it is not working. I can't breathe deeply because it feels like I'm being stabbed in the back by daggers (well since I'm in Africa I suppose spears would be a more appropriate). Ha we love being South African even if we moan about it all the time. American's have funny sayings which we call "Americanisms", here in SA we call ours "South Africanisms". We have a special dictionary just full of South Africanisms and its a side splitting read, but because we have 11 official languages (go figure I can only speak two and a bit and about 10 Hebrew words) even we find some of them a bit of a challenge. Good for a laugh anyway.
I have requested that they call the doctor back in to see me but the one on duty this week-end doesn't seem overly keen on me or giving me strong pain meds. I'm seriously going to let rip when I see her. What the heck am I doing here if they won't give me stronger meds to control my pain especially when the pain makes breathing even more difficult. Unfortunately my regular pulmonogist is on holiday and he understands that I have an extremely high pain threshold and that if I cry from pain then its time to do some serious drug therapy! I wonder if she will even come back because I know she's not wild about seeing me. Maybe its time for me to page her and get her back in here to sort things out - ok see why she does not like me, I'm not the easiest patient, but I've got such a long and complicated medical history that I know my rights and I know my body, and a lot of doctors find that really hard to deal with.
Here's some advice for you all. Always choose a Jewish doctor. This has nothing with my religion, they just seem to have "something special". Maybe its being so over protected by their Jewish moms (everything you hear about Jewish moms and mom-in-laws is true by the way), and so I think they have some extra compassion. Jews are also renowned for their "guilt" issues so maybe that also has something to do with it, they feel guilty if they don't make you better so they just try harder. If any non-Jewish doc reads this don't be offended, this is my personal view and I do have non-Jewish docs too and I really love them!!!! One of our best friends is a Hindu and he aslo will only see Jewish docs, we find this rather amusing, but he will not allow any of his family members to see non-Jewish docs and funny enough his wife is a nurse who specialised in paediatrics and she totally agrees with him.
Ireneo, I could not get ahold of the cardio - our cell phone network packed in on Friday (third world country remember) and so I will give him a call on the morrow. It does not seem to be related to the meds though and I agree I wish it was because it would be a much simpler solution. Still just out of courtesy I will let him know what is going on. The cardio here at this hospital came to see me on Friday and promised to come back in yesterday and has not been back. He declined to treat me anysya. Says its not his field. He did say that he thinks I should carry on with the new meds though, so once things settle with my chest I think I will start taking them again. See if they do any good.
Must tell you a last thing. This morning my blood pressure went through the roof it was 220/110 - charming. Apparently its from the huge doses of cortisone I'm on. Just one more thing to worry me. They checked it a while ago and its down a bit so I guess I should just not let it bug me, its obviously going to be a bit on the up and down side.
Right, I'm either off to find someone to contact my doctor to get me onto stronger pain meds or I'm signing out of here. I will NOT sign an AMA as the hospital and doctor retain responsibility to the patient if you don't sign, so that covers me pretty well. They may have to tie me to the bed, but one way or the other they are going to sort out this pain of mine. Will keep you informed and once again thanks for the support.
Pika great to speak to you again. Keep your head about you. I think you handle yourself really well and I admire and respect that even if you panic sometimes.
Ireneo thanks for the mails, I enjoy them, very informative. Will keep in touch.
Vienna you around? Knightrider? Any of the others?
Ha the nurse just came in and caught me packing my bag, seems to have inspired her into some sort of action. She has gone off to phone the doctor!!! Nothing like a threat to get things done, so hopefully I will be blissfully pain free soon, if not I'm out of here.
Hi Thinline, I think I'm better moving back to your post. Thank you for all the kind words. I can't get back to that "ghost place" anymore. They are redirected me directly to the new website. I went back there actually is looking for you. You know, they're not speaking to me anymore.
I tell you the truth, my cardio keeps telling me the wrong things. Not my head nor I listened wrongly. He made me so confused. I think this time he forgot to turn back on to my pacer. Or may be he accidently switched to the twilight night zone mode!
I can understand why you cried. I cried once at the ward's corridor too. I had told that story. Crying is not a bad thing, sometime it can release the pressure of so many things that we are unable to handle. I also have a Christmas at Royal Women's Hospital once. The nurse wanted to take me to the party at down stair but I need to stay on the wheel chair so I didn't want to go.....
Can you use internet in the hospital? That's not a boring stay! Your hospital must be advance than ours one here. I hope you are getting better soon. Keep us posting, please. That way we know you are OK. Take care.
I tell you the truth, my cardio keeps telling me the wrong things. Not my head nor I listened wrongly. He made me so confused. I think this time he forgot to turn back on to my pacer. Or may be he accidently switched to the twilight night zone mode!
I can understand why you cried. I cried once at the ward's corridor too. I had told that story. Crying is not a bad thing, sometime it can release the pressure of so many things that we are unable to handle. I also have a Christmas at Royal Women's Hospital once. The nurse wanted to take me to the party at down stair but I need to stay on the wheel chair so I didn't want to go.....
Can you use internet in the hospital? That's not a boring stay! Your hospital must be advance than ours one here. I hope you are getting better soon. Keep us posting, please. That way we know you are OK. Take care.
Thank you for keeping us updated, you are the definition of a trooper.. You will be in my prayers for a speedy recovery.. Try to relax and enjoy the company of family while they are there ( i know, easier said than done).. We are always here to talk to.. God bless!
Aw gee everyone, you've really cheered me up thanks. Nice to not feel so lonely. Had a massive asthma attack this afternoon - thought they were going to have to intubate at one point. Have gone up to 200mg of cortisone 3 times daily which is huge. Almost as huge as my moon face. The joys of taking steroids, your big red round face (actually Santa could take a vacation this year and I could stick on a white beard and be jingle belling down chimneys. Oops I forgot, I'm Jewish so maybe we will keep our Christmas celebration secret. O well its out now, yes, even some of us Jews get into the Xmas thing - and NO WE ARE NOT JEWS FOR JESUS!!!! We celebrate the day as Family Day and give gifts and eay yummy food and just spend the day together drinking champerss and orange! Yum. Always good fun. So all this cortisone has blown me up like a big red blimp, but lets hope the larger dose helps. My folks have just arrived so I'm off and will check in again later. Thanks again.
Hope you got my message OK.
I'm glad (I guess) that it's not the meds causing this. But that would have been an easy fix. Stay in touch daily if you can. We want to know how you're doing. It's OK if you cry, we can't see your red nose. Besides, it would be very festive (Rudolph :-) Did your cardio get cranky about the meds? Probably not since he's sure that's not what's causing your lungs to act up.
Well, I have to head to work. Rest up, cough up all that stuff and feel better soon. Hugs,
I'm glad (I guess) that it's not the meds causing this. But that would have been an easy fix. Stay in touch daily if you can. We want to know how you're doing. It's OK if you cry, we can't see your red nose. Besides, it would be very festive (Rudolph :-) Did your cardio get cranky about the meds? Probably not since he's sure that's not what's causing your lungs to act up.
Well, I have to head to work. Rest up, cough up all that stuff and feel better soon. Hugs,
sorry to hear you're having such a bad time in hospital, only just read your post. Thanks again for posting your comments about my mum, especially when you're having such a bad time yourself. Really hope things pick up for you
Hey there. Sorry to hear you're going through all of this. I'm glad you're not reacting to your meds...but geez. Sending good thoughts your way. Let us know how you're doing!
Thanks for the support. Still in hospital. Still having asthma attacks and going into bronchospasm. Woke up this morning ater a really bad night of coughing feeling very very down. Goodness I'm actually sitting here crying which really isn't like me at all - how embarassing. Luckily none of you can actually see me.
It seems the new heart meds have nothing to do with this chest thing, this is just asthma gone wrong. Also the blurry vision I had put down to a side effect of the heart meds turned out to be pink-eye - must have picked it up from my little boy or something.
I wonder what goes on with our brains. Every day I cope fine, yes I have a few chronic diseases: IST, diabetes, asthma, arthritis. I manage them all well. They are part of my life - nothing to get hysterical about and suddenly BAM - wake up one day and think to yourself I can't do this anymore, its just too hard. Maybe its PMS. No doubt I'll be fine in an hour or two
Oh what a cheery post to start the day - maybe I should go to the anxiety forum. That should perk me right up!
It seems the new heart meds have nothing to do with this chest thing, this is just asthma gone wrong. Also the blurry vision I had put down to a side effect of the heart meds turned out to be pink-eye - must have picked it up from my little boy or something.
I wonder what goes on with our brains. Every day I cope fine, yes I have a few chronic diseases: IST, diabetes, asthma, arthritis. I manage them all well. They are part of my life - nothing to get hysterical about and suddenly BAM - wake up one day and think to yourself I can't do this anymore, its just too hard. Maybe its PMS. No doubt I'll be fine in an hour or two
Oh what a cheery post to start the day - maybe I should go to the anxiety forum. That should perk me right up!
oh no! I'm sorry to hear this. Have you had problems in the past with asthma? I know when I started some new heart meds, I started having asthma like problems. Once I came off of them it went away after about a week.
Take care of yourself, hope you have a speedy recovery!
Take care of yourself, hope you have a speedy recovery!
I think the Dr will talk to each other. Even tell them what to do. It doesn't matter you're in which hospital. For me, my cardio is looking after the heart only. He is taking other parts of my body as INVISIBLE!
Thinline, I hope you are getting your recovery rapidly. I'll check in here and see how you go. Take care.
Thinline, I hope you are getting your recovery rapidly. I'll check in here and see how you go. Take care.
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