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Hippiekinkster -> RE: Damn I hate hospitals (5/28/2011 8:33:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: flcouple2009
I was in the ER a couple of weeks ago.
3 attempts later and by the time the guy was finished digging in my veins and restarting in different spots I needed the pain meds to get over having the IV started.
I was venipunctured in my left elbow crook, and on my right forehand. Well, I don't know what happened, but when the right hand apparatus was removed, I started gushing like an East Texas oil well. Blood was flowing/dripping everywhere, even with putting pressure on the inch-thick gauze. On the floor, on the gurney cover sheet, all over my hand; there was a sizeable pool on the plastic patient possessions bag at the end of the gurney. I'd guess over 25 ml. I was beginning to feel a case of the vapors comin' on. [:D]
TY for your well-wishes, FL et Filly.
Linnea - so glad I gave up caffeine after I quit smoking back in 99. And I used to LURV Costa Rican Terrazu, and the occasional cuppa Jamaican Blue Mountain Rooster Farms, but most especially Aikane Kona Peaberry (google 'em). Now I'll have a little in the form of diet Mt. Dew if I really need to speed, but I'm doing pretty good keeping my BP low without much diovan (was 140/82 without diovan for 2 days and with pain at around 8 (my 10 is from when I had scleral buckle/cryo retinal reattachment back in December 2006. That pain lasted a full month, then ebbed, but for that month, it was so bad, I involuntarily pissed myself twice. Worse than the kidney stone I had in 2000. SO my 8 is pretty bad (shakes, crying, whimpering, and so on, form someone brouhg up in a stoic German family).
At Parrapa... I've been enjoying reading your posts.
Julia ... Thank you, dear.
At hausboy ... yes, surgical debridement is probably in the works. I also have moderate osteoarthritis in both feet, which complicates things. I only consider amputation because it IS a possibility, and I don't want to exclude possibilities. Had an MRI 4/2010. Will likely need a bone densitometer scan w/ a radioactive tracer.
As for sharing goodies, well, first of all, while I got a deal, they weren't free. Secondly, he's a pretty good guitarist that I've done several open mics with, adn with whom I will be in a band with if this is ever resolved. So, unless one plays base like Les Claypool (Primus)or Jaco Pastorius (himself) or Tal Wickenfeld (Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scotts (with my favorite drummer, Vinnie Colaiuta - Utube it; I'll bet you'll be amazed)), one has zero chance.
I just woke up; 2 10mg Perkies put me to sleep, which is a rarity. Now I get to have a beer and some good stuff from Trader Joe's. Yum.
Wish I had a service sub here. Whipping Posts are just so easy to find. And I'm not a sadist. Truth be told, I had a major Threshold event at the end of 2007 when it was touch and go whether I would intentionally OD or not. Had to do with a major PTSD-creating event when I was 2; the most major in a series... suffice it to say, I've had a lot of healing because of that Threshold event, and I'm just not very kinky anymore. The obsessive-compusive components of my behavior seem to have pretty much melted away.
Linnea offered to give me a hug, except for my curmudgeonliness. Up until that 2007 event, I could barely stand to be touched. I would visibly flinch, and draw away, if someone touched me without my knowledge, and often even with. I had apparently associated being touched with being physically abused. I don't have that anymore.
Evolution.
Ha. What a digression.
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