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Admin/Odd Duck |
Geez lbj, did you have to tell us that? ____________________________________________________ New and improved super concentrated me: Proud rebel, heretic, and Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal. There is iron in my words of death for all to see. So there is iron in my words of life. | |||
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Admin/Odd Duck |
It's proof positive that even in bad situations life throws at us, humor still exists. ____________________________________________________ New and improved super concentrated me: Proud rebel, heretic, and Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal. There is iron in my words of death for all to see. So there is iron in my words of life. | |||
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Too old of a Cat, to be licked by a Kitten |
Ouch!! I can relate to that, as something similar happened to me. I hope you recover quickly. The Working Police..... "We the willing, led by the unknown, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful." | |||
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Sound and Fury |
I'm glad to see you still have your classic sense of humor. The longest I've been hospitalized was 5 days, and that was uncomfortable enough without the added pain and issues of surgery and stiches. "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989 Si vis pacem para bellum There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Feeding Trolls Since 1995 | |||
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Ha! You should have told them immediately of the cause of your pain. Nurses, quick, grab my balls. LBJ, I have been hearing great things about immuno therapy. I saw something on the local news last night where a guy in advanced stages of cancer signed for a clinical trial. He figured at this point, why not. He said it took about two months before he started feeling better. They did a scan and sure enough, his tumors were shrinking. Several weeks later...They were GONE! He is still going in for IV treatments because, one of the things about clinical trials, they don't know when it is best to stop the treatment. The guy looked like a normal, healthy adult. The progress in cancer treatments are amazing. Keep fighting brother! | |||
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Geez... Were they at least apologetic when they realized you really couldn't breathe? Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. | |||
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Admin/Odd Duck |
Not really. I think they think they did everything right because I lived to tell the tell. Obviously there are 2 sides to every story, I have presented my side. I tried before I even checked in to make the hospital, doctors and staff aware of breathing needs I have experienced in the past after previous surgeries, and in imo, to no avail. One of the nurses that night even accused me of being psychosomatic. I feel certain that once the x-ray showed fluid in my lungs, she felt differently. Now, I did panic once everything went south, I will admit such, but sometimes in life it there can be a time for panic, and when I did, it was the right time for such because I was going into crisis. I do understand hospitals do not want patients self medicating, doing this could cause complications. However, breathing is so personal and necessary, I simply resent anyone controlling my breathing other than myself, and I will always fight that. But hospitals are a business, and the protocols they have in place are all about risk management and predictability. But that screwed me up in a bad way. There was no good reason at all for me to have had to cough a hundred times and go through the pain I did. That's how I see it. ____________________________________________________ New and improved super concentrated me: Proud rebel, heretic, and Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal. There is iron in my words of death for all to see. So there is iron in my words of life. | |||
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Man Once Child Twice |
As a Respiratory Therapist I find it unbelievable that post-op breathing treatments were not ordered considering your history. It should have been a red flag that you were using meds to control your asthma. Couple that with the respiratory depressing effects of narcos and you have the recipe for exactly what happened. The mucus can't move because your airways are not dilated, and your breathing is shallow. Coughing fits which eventually can lead to pnuemonia. And the Nurse should have called for an RRT eval immediately. Did she listen to your lungs for wheezing or ronchi? At the very least you should have been using the Incentive Spirometer to keep your lungs inflated. When this is all said and done, get copies of your medical records, at least pertaining to this. You'll be surprised what will be in them. You were probably drug seeking and whining constantly. 30 years in the business and I no longer 100% trust the medical community. | |||
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Nothing can be Something |
Nice to see you posting, lbj. Continuing to send good thoughts your way. "In the age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness." - Saul Bellow | |||
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The Persian |
I think nurses have become very calloused due to drug seeking and hypochondriac patients. Sometimes you have to be proactive about your healthcare. My port-a-cath moved out of my vein, it took my neck bulging out before they believed me that something was wrong. Thankfully it was an saline test, not chemo drugs that they were about to start.
In the ICU (whatever the hospital calls it) they have their procedures and they follow it to the letter. If they move you to a more normal wing, you will be surprised what you can negotiate if you do it with a smile. I was able to convince the nurses to get everything moved to one or two contacts on the night shift, so I could at least 3-4 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Though I had one nurse that was so disorganized that she couldn't handle that. She would come in intending to do something(s), but she forgets something she needs to do it, and goes to get it, gets distracted and comes back an hour later. The entire night was like that, so I talked to the supervisor in the morning and convinced her not to assign that nurse to my section. ------- A turbo: Exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens, and you go faster. Mr. Doom and Gloom "King in the north!" "Slow is smooth... and also slow. | |||
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I'm Different! |
As a nurse, I know when some one is seeking pain meds, it's not difficult to tell. Breathing is essential. The nurses should have been able to quickly evaluate respiratory difficulty - through pulse oximetry, lung sounds, and simple observation (accessory muscle use). I agree with Sigfest is correct. Breathing treatments should have been utilized and possibly Bi-Pap. The nurse that accused you of being psychosomatic is either very inexperienced, lazy, or an idiot. I can't even think of an excuse for your mistreatment. No excuse at all. Again as a nurse, I apologize for the substandard care you were given. No excuse at all. “Agnostic, gun owning, conservative, college educated hillbilly” | |||
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Admin/Odd Duck |
Overall, after the 1st night, I never saw either of the 3 nurses I saw that night. One was the night floor nurse, she is the one who accused me of being psychosomatic. At that time, I told her that I would concede the point 100% except that now I had physical symptoms and those needed to be treated. As I say, I never saw those 3 again during my stay. My other nurses and nurse assistants for the remainder of my stay I had no problems with at all. I will say this though, when all the asthma things went down and they were not on top of it right away, I was pretty upset and debated harshly with them all night. Yeah, I could talk so I was not going to die at that time. However, it was the shortness of breath, the lung spasms, the wheezing, and the fluid build up which for me, is a tell tell sign control was needed quick. I mean, the 100 coughs with an 8-9 inch incision across my abdomen and the pain, I have never felt something so painful with each cough in my life. Then rinse and repeat for another 99 times. I can and have reached certain levels in my life where it can almost be too late. In fact, I was on a ventilator the last time I was at that hospital. I had had nasal polyp surgery and my lungs filled with blood from the drainage of the nasal surgery. It's in my record, I talked about it prior to surgery. I don't know what else I could have done so that correct breathing protocols were up and ready to go. I went to great pains to tell them I simply have a direct type connection between my lungs and nasal passages. I have been this way since I was born. ____________________________________________________ New and improved super concentrated me: Proud rebel, heretic, and Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal. There is iron in my words of death for all to see. So there is iron in my words of life. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Well, I think this is my first post in this thread although I've read it when it started. Sorry to hear what you're going through and I wish you all the best. Nothing like getting an expiration date from a doctor. My doctor recommended me to go see a lung doctor myself for a biopsy consultation after 2 xrays and a cat scan. It's set for next week. I don't know what it's about. I've been telling people to prepare their eulogy for me because I want to review their outline at least. I also tell people that if this is lung cancer, then I'm going back to smoking. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Admin/Odd Duck |
Hopefully, all goes well for you. ____________________________________________________ New and improved super concentrated me: Proud rebel, heretic, and Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal. There is iron in my words of death for all to see. So there is iron in my words of life. | |||
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Nature is full of magnificent creatures |
I also hope all goes well for you with this. | |||
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On my last hospital tour for some brain surgery they had me so doped up for several days I thought I was back at home but couldn't figure out when I painted my walls green in the house! My nurse used to say when she came in to give me the pain meds in my IV "Here's a special cocktail just for you!" Still adding prayers for you healing lbj, and I'll add in some for Rey HRH too.. Regards, Will G. | |||
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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. |
Adding HRH in my prayers Thom "Tulta munille!" NRA Benefactor Life Member NRA Certified Instructor NRA Range Safety Officer SAF Life Member | |||
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Yokel |
Rey HRH Prayers sent You have email If you reply please give it some time I am not in that account often but will be checking in. Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it! - John Steinbeck | |||
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Yokel |
lbj There is a lot to say about dates. When I started my battle in 2009 all they said was stage three A-B Lung Cancer was a hard one to beat. I had a port in my chest for Chemo infusion. I was cancer free and returned to work in May 2010. I was going every 6 weeks to get my port flushed to keep it open. I asked my Oncologist after about a year when I was going to get it removed and he said never. Well after I made it two years without it returning my Oncologist gave the orders to have it removed. Then, I figured out that when he originally said it would never be removed it was thought the Cancer would return and it would be needed to the end. My Boss’s wife started her battle with stage four Lung Cancer and stage one breast cancer in 2010. She is still in active chemo and is said lung Cancer is shrunk to very small and has not changed in three years. Breast Cancer is gone. She is very active and at 57 just retired. After my concurrent Chemo and Radiation treatments I was deemed Cancer free but put on a pill for two years to help prevent remission or recurrence. There are many break troughs in target therapies every day. I found this free magazine very informative through my battle and I still read it. http://www.curetoday.com/subscribe Prayers Sent For God’s Grace and Healing Hands Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it! - John Steinbeck | |||
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