Posted by RN320 on September 4, 2006, at 20:23:56
In reply to Re: Just Checking In, posted by exquilter on September 4, 2006, at 19:42:00
> Dear RN-
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> Glad to hear you are going to a PCP. Having someone who can co-ordinate all your different specialists is valuable. And if you need to be seen in a hurry a call from her may have better results than you might get yourself. Its even better that you feel comfortable with her.
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> I just tripped and fell myself, but all I did was land hard on my knees and left side. Glad the basement floor is carpeted, but my fibromyalgia is really going to be kicked up now and I'm going to travel on Wednesday. Sure wish I wasn't so clumsy!!!
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> It sounds like a really bad fall you took. Sounds like they dropped the ball at the hospital too, both by not checking for possible causes for the fall and perhaps by releasing you too soon. Did they explain to you why CPR was neccessary? Seems strange they let you go home so soon after that much trauma. Well, I guess all I really know I learned from TV, so enough second guessing. I hope you continue to heal and are very careful, not to mention treating yourself as kindly as you would a friend who was hurting.
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> Empathetically yours,
> ExquilterExquilter-
So sorry to hear about your fall.....glad your injuries don't sound major, but it sounds like you're going to be paying for them in the days to come. I don't know alot about fibromyalgia other than it can be very painful, so I'm sure that these injuries are going to make things more difficult for you.
I'm so glad to be out of that hospital, but I agree that I was probably released too soon. No one ever adequately gave me an explanation as to why they did CPR on me, but at the time I know they thought it was the real thing because the chaplain was called to speak with my family, etc. I have my own theory of why a ten ton gorilla pounded on my chest.........first- I take beta blockers and sometimes my heart rate can run in the 30's.....also a problem with severe head injuries. Second- I'm on antihypertensives as well as EMSAM 9mg and just that week had a pressure of 86/40 so I figured maybe that got a little lower, and the third thing is that I was probably shallow breathing- another thing that happens with severe head injuries. I think that they panicked and really thought that I was crashing at the time. I'll do just about anything to believe that I did NOT have a cardiac arrest at my age!!!! It's just not my style. At least the bruises are starting to heal. My cardiologist remains frosted that they never even looked for a reason that this happened....the whole focus was on getting me out. Her theory is that because at the time I had no PCP, no one wanted to deal with me because they might end up having to actually DO something that's out of their specialty because there's no one to turf it to. That's why she thinks that the neurologist discharged me home over the phone having only seen me once, and that the house officer also discharged me without seeing me even though I had been in an ICU bed 12 hours earlier. It makes sense, but it still stinks if that's the case.
Health care (it seems) has gotten so "managed care oriented" which has birthed the concept of the PCP. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing....it's just that I think they are taking it a bit far. I've still got a massive headache and balance problems but my face and leg are starting to look better. I guess I'm losing that quasimoto look. I'm looking better.....I'm more active, doing more, interacting more with people...yet why do I continue to feel so bad and have the SI? I started getting out documents that I had prepared about a year ago and revised them.....all having to do with my death. And I felt perfectly comfortable doing it. I've done a couple of impulsive things lately- nothing big, but I'm just not an impulsive person- at least I never used to be......and it makes me wonder if this is how it's going to happen? Just an impulsive act after all the planning that went into it. Just makes no sense to me.Took your advice and got my mom a card and also took a big bouquet of flowers, which went over very well. But I think that the best thing for her was that I came over and visited and listened, and listened, and listened.........I heard the story for the first time about how they thought I was going to die in the hospital and how scared they were. Anyway, I think we're all happy now........which is really how I want it.
SAfe travels to you on Wednesday, Exquilter. Rest when you can. /m
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