Hospitals
richard e white
I haven't been on-line for a while. This is because on the Tuesday
before thanksgiving I had a sudden pain run down my center. It was very
painful and I got someone to drive me to the urgent care place. the
sort drive made me sure I needed care. After a quick look at my blood
tests, they sent me to the hospital next door. They took another set of
blood tests and admitted me. x-rays showed gualstones. I had to wait
until wends evening for the doctors to remove the stones. This wait
wasn't for nothing. they had to talk to my hart specialist and find out
how long the blood thinners would take to ware off enugf to do what was
needed. I was on A LOT of pain meds. During this time the nurse
repetedly called the doctor to get the time between the pain meds
shortened. The side effect of all these meds is not remembering much of
this time. Then wendsday morning my hart doc showed up and said, "good
news and bad news. The bad news is that acording to the test results
the blood thinners you were on weren't working. the good news, is the
procedures can go on sooner then expected. We will have to replace your
blood thinner medacaition afterwards.
The GI doc did his thing late wends. I was on so many pain meds,
that after removing four gualstones along with some bits of other
stones or stone, The GI wasn't able to talk to me in recovery. I came
back to my sences sometime in the early A. M. of Thanksgiving day
morning.
My first memory is eating a liquid breakfast and having someone come
in and telling the nurse, "Nothing more by mouth."
It seamed my pancreatic ensimes were to high. Just like most of
tuesday and all of wends I got everything by I V. All they would let me
do is rinse and spit or swab my mouth with a wet spunge. This was to
keep my mouth wet. They also kept total track of all out going liquids.
Only one small cup of ice chips was alowed to wet my throught so my
throught wouldn't swell from the tube they stck down it to get the
gualstones out. I didn't feel the tube scope put down as I was out
under other meds at the time.
friday morning at eaight thirty, I went into surgery and had my
gualblatter removed. They did this through four small houls on my right
side. the largest hole was around the bottom of my belly button. When
I was back in my room I was alowed ice chips the rest of friday and the
start of saterday. At non the pancreatic ensimes were undercontrol and
I was able to eat again. I talked with one doctor. An inturnal
medacine doc who edmited me. He seamed to be in charge. However, after
we agreed to start with a liquied diet, one of the other doctors called
in and had me put onto a soft food diet. I had problems and dinner was
liquied only. At midnight I went back to no food at all. As most
people eat you might think this isn't a big deal. However, every time I
was set to nothing by mouth, it meant they might do another procedure.
This means at five thirty a person from the labs arives and takes
blood. Actualy everyone on my floor had blood taken around this time.
This was so labs could be run before the doctors arived that day. then
they could tell who they need to work on each morning. On Thanksgiving
day, It was also this test, which showed my pancreatic ensimes were way
to high. The not eating was because eating rises them even higher.
Anyways the doctors, see the tests at seven or eaight, then do surgery
on the ones ready for it that day. Then they talk to the people waiting
for news of how things went. This may mean the person worked on or a
wife or friend in the waiting room. then they go over a few other
things and do rounds. This means to have nothing by mouth set at
midnight also means no breakfast, your lucky if they even see you on
there rounds before noon.
I went from soft foods, to liqieds, to nothing for twelve hours and
then one doc set me to normal food and then back to no food at all.
Total odd after nearly five days with nothing at all. Then one and a
half days of bouncing my diet around they decided to let me out. I was
let out of the hospital the monday after thanks giving day. The only
orders were to show up at four diffrent doctors offices in seven to ten
days, and to lift nothing over five pounds.
Less then forty eaight hours later I had to go back to the E. R.
After some more tests I expected some med or things to take care of
the problem. However, I was admitted again. The pancreaces had a
problem again. the doctor who admitted me said nothing by mouth so they
could do a procedure the next day. However, two hours later a clear
liquied meal arrived. I asked and found out things had changed. I was
sent back to the same floor but across the hall from where I was before.
I stayed on a clear liquied diet for two days and then was moved
onto licquied meals. Found it odd that coffy is considered a clear food
but milk wasn't. Has to do with how they can change in the body.
During one night they put potassium in me through my I. V. then the
nurse went out of the room. Soon my arm and had were feeling funny. I
hit the call button. Five minits later the person on the call box asked
what I needed. By this time it felt like my arm was killing me and I
said so. Soon the nurse came back and set warm blanks around my arm and
halfed the add rate. It felt like my arm was frozen, burning and being
ripped off at the same time. the nurse said it would get better. It
did as long as the arm was kept warm. However, the pain never went away
and when the nurse on the next shift did the second of four bags to be
done, it was back to square one. When trying to keep me under control,
the nurse said I could always refuse the treatment. I said if this was
going to be redone everytime they did another bag then I wanted them to
stop. However they dubbled my pain med s and talked me into the next
two bags. I agreed only as long as the arm was kept warm. However, on
at least two times on each bag of med I asked and no one came. the
nurse aid came on his normal round, but the notes for more warm blankets
never seamed to be passed. I didn't want to continue the treatment, but
all the pain meds and pain along with the nurses consint yacking made me
give in. After I got my brains back I have no clue as to why I agreed.
Part way through the third bag I asked the nurse not to set a
posstasieaom bag during the time I would be taking the new pain meds.
However, as I was talking on the phone, to distract myself she hang the
bag. Which meant it would run during the time I had asked not to have
it.
The next day I told the doctor about my thoughts and how I wanted my
normal pills even if they were harder on the tummy. She said there was
a med which could be added so the arm would be numbed out during the
process.
I had spent nearly six hours in pain because no one had called and
told the on call doctor the problem I was having. She said they were
looking into what happened. That day as I recovered from what the stuff
had done to me I had mood swings. And I really was worried about
meeting the nurse who had done it. I knew I would ask her if she knew
about this med. If I thought the anser was yes I was thinking of
putting her through the wall if I lost my temper. I have been known to
go buserick at times. However, the mood swings made it so I was worried
about losing control. I am pretty sure they changed the nurses shift
because of this. It was the only time the nurses where changed from the
patiants they had worked on.
The shifts were changed one way or another and I didn't meet or see
them. The following day my brain came back and the question about why
the nurse hadn't called the doctor came to mind. However, all I got was
the doctor was looking into it.
After this event I found things odd. The call box was slower to
ansser, fewer people came into the room, and how the people on the other
end of the call box ansered became odd. A request for water went from a
three to five minute thing to fourty minute wait.
This is one use of the call box. I spilled a drink on the sheets.
The reply was, "I will tell your nurse. This surprised me. before it
would have been I will send someone from house keeping. Even odder is
no one showed up. forty minutes later, the nurses aid showed up on
normal rounds not knowing about the message at all. She helped fix the
problem and went about her work. This was normal for after the event.
who ever showed up had no idea as to any call but was willing to help.
I went from seeing people every few minutes to only seeing them when
they needed to git blood pressers or something. This doesn't surprise
me as I went from a very sick person to someone just waiting to be let
out. It is how useless the call box became which I find surprising.
Even using it didn't mean anything would happen or even show up.
I have now been home some six hours and still can't figure things out
even if my brain is fully working again.
All during my stay I had disk world books playing on a digatal unit. It
helped me to track something other then my pain. the TV didn't help me
and the hospitals music system was regretable at best. So between all
the stupied problems i either slepted or lissened to diffrent books. I
would often drift off as I lay there and lissened, and I always knew
where I was when I came back. Although I was forever repeating a bit
because i had slpted through it. Oddly I also had totaly unrealistic
bits where the story was invading my dreams and rearanging the story
line. Rather odd thing to happen but oddly intertaining. But then
again it might have been the drugs. I know they changed my perception
of men at arms. I don't remember the drugs I was on but it was the
point where I came to over six hours after the procedures.
--
Richard The Blind Typer.
Lets hear it for talking computers.
Lets go for talking i-pods!
Lesley Weston
<Serious problems in hospital treatment>
I'm so sorry to hear what's been happening to you. I hope you're feeling
better now, and that at least one of these procedures fixed the problem.
If you need a hospital again (I hope not!), is there a different one you
can go to? Though perhaps having had all these problems with the one you
did visit means that they'll be extra careful to look after you properly
if you do need them again.
--
Lesley Weston
The addy above is real, but I won't see anything posted to it for a long
time. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca, adjusting as necessary.
GaryN
$31h8$1...@mud.stack.nl:
> richard e white wrote:
>
> <Serious problems in hospital treatment>
>
> I'm so sorry to hear what's been happening to you. I hope you're feeling
> better now, and that at least one of these procedures fixed the problem.
> If you need a hospital again (I hope not!), is there a different one you
> can go to? Though perhaps having had all these problems with the one you
> did visit means that they'll be extra careful to look after you properly
> if you do need them again.
>
I had to go to A&E today due to a fall this morning. They were reasonably
quick and superglued the scalp wound on the back of my head together pretty
quickly. They did say "Don't brush or wash your hair for 4 days because
that may mess up the glue".
What they forgot to say was "Don't put your hat back on because there is a
bit of glue where we didn't intend it" I now have a hat stuck to my head
for at least the next 4 days.
gary
--
"History is written by the winners which is why French history books are
blank from cover to cover"
The Pub Landlord.
CCA
wrote:
> richard e white wrote:
> <Serious problems in hospital treatment>
> I'm so sorry to hear what's been happening to you. I hope you're feeling
> better now, and that at least one of these procedures fixed the problem.
Me too. With an added general "eeep!"
CCA
Lizzy Taylor
> I had to go to A&E today due to a fall this morning. They were
reasonably
> quick and superglued the scalp wound on the back of my head together pretty
> quickly. They did say "Don't brush or wash your hair for 4 days because
> that may mess up the glue".
>
> What they forgot to say was "Don't put your hat back on because there is a
> bit of glue where we didn't intend it" I now have a hat stuck to my head
> for at least the next 4 days.
Well it should protect you from cats coming in through the bog window.....
Lizzy
Lesley Weston
> Lesley Weston <brightly_co...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in news:hfginu
> $31h8$1...@mud.stack.nl:
>
>> richard e white wrote:
>>
>> <Serious problems in hospital treatment>
>>
>> I'm so sorry to hear what's been happening to you. I hope you're feeling
>> better now, and that at least one of these procedures fixed the problem.
>> If you need a hospital again (I hope not!), is there a different one you
>> can go to? Though perhaps having had all these problems with the one you
>> did visit means that they'll be extra careful to look after you properly
>> if you do need them again.
>>
>
> I had to go to A&E today due to a fall this morning.
Oh dear!
> They were reasonably
> quick and superglued the scalp wound on the back of my head together pretty
> quickly.
That's good.
> They did say "Don't brush or wash your hair for 4 days because
> that may mess up the glue".
>
> What they forgot to say was "Don't put your hat back on because there is a
> bit of glue where we didn't intend it" I now have a hat stuck to my head
> for at least the next 4 days.
Just pretend you're Jewish, and you'll be fine. Alternatively, have you
tried cutting that bit of hair? Or bit of hat?
richard e white
I am getting better. Slowly. After spending so much time non moving in the
hospital bed I have to walk everyday. The mussles are very week. However,
I now have seven doctors. One general and six speachalests. I think the
trick is to catch everything before it gets so bad. The last procedure at
the same hospital had me in and out in twelve hours after the bit was done.
This was three mounths before the gualstone bit. If I had caught them
before they blocked the ducts it would have been quick and fast to fix. So
I guess the best thing to do is keep a better care with hitting doctors
before things get so bad.
Lesley Weston
So I guess your news is mostly positive, which is a Good Thing. Take
care of yourself, and keep those seven doctors on their toes.
GaryN
Hmmmm; Richard White and the Seven Doctors? Somehow this has a
familiar feel to it but I doubt it'll make it into folklore:-)
Hope things improve soon Richard.
Weatherlawyer
wrote:
> GaryN wrote:
> > Lesley Weston <brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in news:hfginu
> > $31h...@mud.stack.nl:
>
> >> richard e white wrote:
>
> >> <Serious problems in hospital treatment>
>
> >> I'm so sorry to hear what's been happening to you. I hope you're feeling
> >> better now, and that at least one of these procedures fixed the problem.
> >> If you need a hospital again (I hope not!), is there a different one you
> >> can go to? Though perhaps having had all these problems with the one you
> >> did visit means that they'll be extra careful to look after you properly
> >> if you do need them again.
>
> > I had to go to A&E today due to a fall this morning.
>
> Oh dear!
>
> > They were reasonably
> > quick and superglued the scalp wound on the back of my head together pretty
> > quickly.
>
> That's good.
>
> > They did say "Don't brush or wash your hair for 4 days because
> > that may mess up the glue".
>
> > What they forgot to say was "Don't put your hat back on because there is a
> > bit of glue where we didn't intend it" I now have a hat stuck to my head
> > for at least the next 4 days.
>
> Just pretend you're Jewish, and you'll be fine. Alternatively, have you
> tried cutting that bit of hair? Or bit of hat?
>
Reminds me of the time I worked in a plastics factory and went to the
loo after handling catalyst.
Then had to go back double quick as the stuff reacted with my ...
... well more to the point, always wash your head when contemplating
putting on an hat is what I always say.
I may get funny looks saying it but you can't be too careful is
what...
Bernard Peek
> Reminds me of the time I worked in a plastics factory and went to the
> loo after handling catalyst.
> Then had to go back double quick as the stuff reacted with my ...
Chemists always wash their hands before as well as afterwards. There's a
story that one of the plant-workers on a site where I worked had been
working with phenol, and had forgotten this simple rule.
The site nurse had to apply a soothing ointment. Rumour has it that they
became firm friends after that.
--
Bernard Peek
Nigel Stapley
You mean she took away the pain but left the swelling?
--
Regards
Nigel Stapley
<reply-to will bounce>
Lesley Weston
How can you tell a techie from an admin type? The techie washes their
hands /before/ going to the loo as well as after.
So, Gary, is the hat now removed? And how's the scalp wound doing?
Lesley Weston
> Bernard Peek wrote:
>> On 17/12/09 14:14, Weatherlawyer wrote:
>>> Reminds me of the time I worked in a plastics factory and went to the
>>> loo after handling catalyst.
>>> Then had to go back double quick as the stuff reacted with my ...
>>
>> Chemists always wash their hands before as well as afterwards. There's
>> a story that one of the plant-workers on a site where I worked had
>> been working with phenol, and had forgotten this simple rule.
>>
>> The site nurse had to apply a soothing ointment. Rumour has it that
>> they became firm friends after that.
>>
>
> You mean she took away the pain but left the swelling?
>
Richard Bos
> On 17/12/09 14:14, Weatherlawyer wrote:
> > Reminds me of the time I worked in a plastics factory and went to the
> > loo after handling catalyst.
> > Then had to go back double quick as the stuff reacted with my ...
>
> Chemists always wash their hands before as well as afterwards. There's a
> story that one of the plant-workers on a site where I worked had been
> working with phenol, and had forgotten this simple rule.
The rule also goes after handling Scotch Bonnets. I'm happy to say that
I don't know this from personal experience.
Richard
GaryN
The hat has been removed by judicious application of scissors by the SO,
obviously I couldn't do it because even trying to remove errant
moustache/beard hairs by looking in the mirror and waving scissors is
fraught with dangerous possibilities - trying to cut one's own hair at
the back using two mirrors would be lunacy! Unfortunately the SO is a
Technical Writer, not a Hair Dresser - I leave the results to your
imagination. The scalp wound has now healed, although the delayed
concussion is still causing bouts of dizziness so I have to be somewhat
careful[1].
The problem I still have is that the nurse had managed to spread medical
superglue all over the left side of my head and there is no way to get
rid of the bloody stuff short of scalping myself! The injuries advice
pamphlet says that it falls off just like a scab after x days - what it
doesn't say is that if it gets in your hair there is no way to get it
out except cutting.
As those who have met me will know I do have long hair. I currently
look like a half-hearted Rastaferian with the left side matted (by blood
and superglue) and the right side normal.
I know that acetone will dissolve superglue but I'm not putting it
anywhere near a recently healed wound.
gary
[1]Being a bloke this means "Lay in bed all day and expect herself to
play waitress"
--
DILLIGAF
GaryN
news:4b2ba0de...@news.xs4all.nl:
Scotch Bonnets and Habanero should only be used when someone who always
insists that they like their chilli hot comes round for dinner.
I bung a couple of Birds Eye in as well and cook everyone else's food in a
different pan, preferably in a different house.
I would agree that after handling the things one should wash the hands
immediately; possibly with industrial detergent which is probably milder.
gary
--
DILLIGAF
Lesley Weston
> Lesley Weston <brightly_co...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> news:hgdoc4$sqe$1...@mud.stack.nl:
<snip>
>> So, Gary, is the hat now removed? And how's the scalp wound
>> doing?
>>
>
> The hat has been removed by judicious application of scissors by the SO,
> obviously I couldn't do it because even trying to remove errant
> moustache/beard hairs by looking in the mirror and waving scissors is
> fraught with dangerous possibilities - trying to cut one's own hair at
> the back using two mirrors would be lunacy! Unfortunately the SO is a
> Technical Writer, not a Hair Dresser - I leave the results to your
> imagination. The scalp wound has now healed, although the delayed
> concussion is still causing bouts of dizziness so I have to be somewhat
> careful[1].
>
> The problem I still have is that the nurse had managed to spread medical
> superglue all over the left side of my head and there is no way to get
> rid of the bloody stuff short of scalping myself! The injuries advice
> pamphlet says that it falls off just like a scab after x days - what it
> doesn't say is that if it gets in your hair there is no way to get it
> out except cutting.
>
> As those who have met me will know I do have long hair. I currently
> look like a half-hearted Rastaferian with the left side matted (by blood
> and superglue) and the right side normal.
>
> I know that acetone will dissolve superglue but I'm not putting it
> anywhere near a recently healed wound.
Oh dear! I'm glad you're feeling mostly better, but sad you're still
full of glue and dizziness. Have you considered the fashionable
shaved-head look? Maybe give the wound a little more time to finish
healing first.
GaryN
<snip>
> Oh dear! I'm glad you're feeling mostly better, but sad you're still
> full of glue and dizziness. Have you considered the fashionable
> shaved-head look? Maybe give the wound a little more time to finish
> healing first.
I did consider the shaved head but:
a) It's not fashionable in the circles I move in.
b) I don't fancy finding out what happens when clippers run into a damn
great lump of superglue and clotted blood - the word 'Ouch', along with
some other choice expletives seems likely.
c) It's taken about 3 years to grow my hair to it's current length and I'm
damned if I'm going to let the carelessness of a nurse cause me to cut it.
Certainly I shave the front, top and sides but the back remains inviolate -
a style called a 'Mullet' back in the 60's/70's. Not trendy by today's
standards but hey, check the .sig:-)
gary
--
DILLIGAF
Lesley Weston
> Lesley Weston <brightly_co...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> news:hgnvpg$15i6$1...@mud.stack.nl:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Oh dear! I'm glad you're feeling mostly better, but sad you're still
>> full of glue and dizziness. Have you considered the fashionable
>> shaved-head look? Maybe give the wound a little more time to finish
>> healing first.
>
> I did consider the shaved head but:
>
> a) It's not fashionable in the circles I move in.
So set the trend.
> b) I don't fancy finding out what happens when clippers run into a damn
> great lump of superglue and clotted blood - the word 'Ouch', along with
> some other choice expletives seems likely.
Quite possibly.
> c) It's taken about 3 years to grow my hair to it's current length and I'm
> damned if I'm going to let the carelessness of a nurse cause me to cut it.
No comeback for that.
>
> Certainly I shave the front, top and sides but the back remains inviolate -
> a style called a 'Mullet' back in the 60's/70's. Not trendy by today's
> standards but hey, check the .sig:-)
So set the trend... I had to look up the sig - I've led a sheltered life.