hi,,,
[edited 11/19/07 11:11 PM]
Sorry i’ve been scarce. Besides work keeping my busy , on Wednesday went to see a new doctor. His advice seemed quite sensible. So I decided try it….
Well, I woke up Thursday moning with an almost full fledged migraine, not to mention light sensitivity and nausea.
I drove to work after puking a few times, brushing my teath again as soon as I got there, so no one would know.
I managed to fake it until almost 10AM. I inspected my office foor as a possible bed. I eventually crawlled down and tested it using one of my piles of paper as a pillow. The severe trobbing pain just intensified what I knew was not a usual migraine.
The 1st empy bed I asked permission to just give my head a rest in for half an hour, to see if it would pass, was being worked on by a housekeeper doing her thing in it as I was calling the unit Director. Room TAT’s are suppposed to be 30 minutes. So I killed 30 minutes, I did mail, had an episode of diarhea and then waited outside the room another 27 minutes and the cleaning of the room had yet to be started, never mind the bed being even whiped down (wiped to dry down is 20 minutes minimum to kill all the nastier bugs). A spanish soap opera on TV either made her attention to detail more focused, or less so, depending on your perspective. I gave up after 45minutes mostly because I had to throw up again and thought I might pass out.
I did throw up in the 3rd floor nurse’s longe bathroom, but managed to make it to the bowl so it flushed away with no left befind labor. My next stop was CDU, an area in the ER that usualy has patients, but is rarely full. I asked for an out of the way bed, where my I could just try and reast off the worst of the pounding in my head ache. As it was they had no people back there.. I was alone in the complete peace of a whole sequestered unit.
Softhearted souls who know me as a hard worker who has never given up on them; never gave my request a second thought. They showed me the 1st empty bay told me to holler if I needed anything, then left me to situate myself. Could I figure out the bed controls? Not a chance. And darnded if I had it in me to jump on the bed. My shoes kicked off in on side, I pulled up a chair on the other and ended up getting on the bed wrong way round. No matter, I could reach the pillow, I grabbed it and pulled it down over my throbbing head. I was descending into helplessness. My body was trembling, I was doing the ‘please don’t puke, the light and movement’s gone’ in through the nose out through the mouth deep breathing ritual, and it blissedly worked. I was able to be still for almost an hour.
In that hour I couldn’t get a grip though and I knre this was not a usual migrane. I knew I needed to get up and go to triage and register as a real patient. I just couldn’t move, just the thought of lifting the pillow, sitting up and trying to walk put me flat on the floor and out cold. As luck would have it, just as I knew I couldn’t just wait it out, the security folks rounded and found me. I scared him since he expected the unit to be empty. Then my boss called my cellphone wanted to know where I was, I was late for our meeting.
After that, wheels spun. It only took a little while for the ED Triage nurse to process me & then the ED Doc. to see me. He ordered lot & lots of lab work, a CT scan and a neurology consult. He also ordered an IV and some Nubain and Phenergan. Besides making a huge dent in my head ach before the neurologist saw me. I was actually able to sleep completely through the CT scan, and all the bausea was gone. Since it was dark when the neurologist saw me, my pain was down from 10 of 10 to 5 and I could focus without puking, it was much easier to explain my history…. and my occult symptoms forunately were well documented.
New meds. Can’t spell for beans, but I feel clear…. Was I ever? [actially I mostly missed ya’ll and felt the 10 day since my last post]
Still new meds, not so in a hurry to post before ready. Quite late for a lucid post for a drunk though ai’t it…. *grin.*
Love y’all
November 18th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
the drunk posts are always amusing
this comment edited by patty at 2058PMCDT always happy to amuse reader. Would have been more fun if I was drunk. ahh well such is life…. as the stat counter says, you certainly are a reader.
No referring link huh, so you’ve got me on your favorites or bookmarked; out of the last 5,000 visitors here you’ve been back 255 times, and as of your last visit at 18:10 today you had the window to this post open for more than 22 hours. So loverly to have loyal devoted readers. end of edit
November 19th, 2007 at 4:18 am
I hope they get this straightened out soon. Did the original doc put you on a new med?
[edit]I sure hope so Ellen today was a much better day than yesterday.
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November 19th, 2007 at 5:12 am
Patty, what a frightening experience, have they sorted your meds.
Do you get a break over Thanksgiving.
Take it easy if you can for a while love.
Love and warm hugs,
:-)
Paul.
[edit] Yes Paul sure hope I do get some rest. I’m off for the rest of the week now, today was long 7AM to 8PM. Me & the kitties have rented a nice cabana condo on the beach. I’ve ordered a full fixin’s turkey dinner from luby’s that I will pick up Wednesday. Even though a cold front is predicted to drop holiday temps below 50 F, the cabana has a fire place & I’ll bring fleece blankets. Thanks for being you.
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November 19th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Hope you get the help you need.
R
[edit] Thank you Richard. I trust this new Doc. I lived for many years without migranes. A few in my mid teens then none for decades until starting this change of life deal. A few last year and now lately literally every month. It never occured to me to ask if changing meds for anxiety and depression could trigger a migrane. Not his fault and now we know something we didn’t know before and I now have a neurologist officially helping, and he’s changed one med & guess what it’s side effect is? Weightloss! LOLOL
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November 19th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Patty, feel better soon. Let us know what the doc says!
~Hugs!
[edit] Not much yet MaggieODear. My CT & MRI show that I’ll not be skipping down the yellow brick road in search of a brain, and the one that I have appears to be normal as compared with other brains and whatever brain norms xray docs and neurologists use. I think having a migrane so bad I couldn’t function right when my depression treatment was being tweaked underscores a lot of what’s been at the core of my cycling moods for a few years now. The prospect of calm and no more headaches … oh yes please….
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November 19th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Hope they figure things out.Get better soon.
By the way:Thats really kind of you “A reader”.Hopefully in your own problems someone will show you the same concern.
[edit] Hey there Jeff as one of the very few who know, *g* thank you. Today was a pretty good day. Wasn’t reader kind? Doncha love the ASSumption s/he made. Like I can drink right now? LOLOLOLOL. I think the stats of their visiting just this blog says more about her/his addiction/dependance than my queer type fast while you’re away cause it’s been too long ’slhypo’s’ (sleepy, hurried typos). My log only tracks up to 5,000 page loads (I put the other 4,000 on the gallery and 1,000 on the old blog) The counter keeps a good running total of new, unigue returning visitors foe every day, but it drops detail beyand that after my log limit is reached, I already know I only have a hair over 4 days of detail. With the exception of the 1st time a popular site ever noticed my old blog, I know I’ve not been back to a single blog more than 200 times in four days. I’m sure I’ve opened a really intriqing post at the end of my day, and ended up leaving it open till later the next day so I wouldn’t forget to re-read and absorb it. Reader’s less interested in the post though as just this snippet of his/her page load activity shows…
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and there’s more since 18:10 today now too. Obession with mean comes to mind…. Thanks for your support Jeff & y’all lets just let mean be alone. I can show you just how mean they are, but why bother right? Just fuels their nasty farts after all……
Love y’all
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November 19th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I hate to hear you are doing so poorly. I hope they get you all straightened out. Please post soon to let us know how you are. Wishing you well,
Amanda
[edit] Much better today Amanda. Two results and check and see how I’m doing calls today, one follow up visit tomorrow AM another late next week. I’m feeling much better today than yeasterday
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November 20th, 2007 at 4:10 am
I sure hope the new meds work, no one should have to suffer the way you have. I hope you have a nice restful Thanksgiving and get back to normal.
[edit 12/2/07: Things are getting better Ozzie. I slept for 20 hours a day for all of the 6 days I took off for Thanksgiving. Finally the overwhelming need to sleep broke and I’ve been feeling pretty good now. Thank you
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November 20th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Dear Patty,
I wish you all the best!
[edit 12/2: Thank you Danielle.
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November 23rd, 2007 at 4:53 am
Patty, re your terrible headaches, I do hope things are now more sorted out, given that this post is several days after your last post. Re: credit card bullshit, I strongly suggest you send a copy of all documentation to both Senator Carl Levin, who has been having hearings about credit card frauds like the one you describe, and to the Comptroller of the Currency alleging fraud on their part, copy to Vice President, Customer Service of the Bank issuing the card. I got an immediate response in my favor when I did the same a year or so ago about being raised to a ridiculously high interest rate.
[edit 12/2: Thank you Edward, much improved on the headache front. Very good approach you took, and good advice. What bugs me most is that the folks caught in shafting bank practices are not people defaulting on their credit obligations, but rather people who, in good faith, are trying to keep up with them. I really feel for people who get in trouble when problems come up for them. I have an employee who encountered some really heavy medical expenses. She’d had the same MBNA card for 15 years and always paid on time and rarely carried a balance. When she got it it had a 1,000 dollar limit. Without asking, every year they upped her limit, so by the time she got in trouble she had a 20,000 dollar limit. This is a single mom with two kids, making 12 dollar an hour working full time as a secretary and going full time to night school so she could get into nursing school. Push came to shove in her life two years ago, when her parents who are non-citizens and inelligable for financial aide got sick. She maxed out the card using it just to prepay portions of their bills so they could keep their dignity, and quickly discovered that even the minimum payments were close to a third of her income. They upped her interest immediately from th 11% it had been for years to 29% and strted hitting her with 29 - 38 dollar late and over the limit fees. Within 6 months the nterest and fees inspite f her steady monthly attempts to pay whatever she could, the balnce was over 30,000 dollars! More than 15,000 of it due to fees and interest and compounded interest on interest & fees. When she froze and effectively “closed” the account after being told they would work with her, they wouldn’t reduce the interest rate unless she paid half the balance. She couldn’t. for a few more months, even with the account frozen, EVERY month they kept adding interest and over the limit fees and penalties, because every over the limit fee they applied consituted use of the frozen account! Finally this very ethical and proud woman did something she swore she would never do, and that is completely default on her now 34,000 dollar debt and declare bankruptcy. This on top of losing her parents to their health problems. By the time she did, virtually none of the balance was due to her spending! she’d paid and paid and paid and paid and could not get past the minimum payment which just kept getting higher and higher. Now she’s in nursing school and within a year will graduate. She still feels like she did something shameful escaping her debt. I keep telling her she abandoned nothing, she escaped a form of harrassment and assualt on her peace of mind and good heart that should be criminal. The bank should be forced to choke on the debt incurred through its own spending on her card, not only that, I think they owe her all of the money she paid them that went toward their charges not her spending once she swallowed her pride and sought their good faith. I know this is not an isolated incident either. It sure does make my blood boil! LOLOLOL.
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November 29th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I hope that you’re feeling better now. In addition, I hope that the Thanksgiving holiday found you happy and well.
[edit 12/2; Thank you Maggie. Much better now.
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December 1st, 2007 at 7:27 am
Hey there! Hope all is okay and that you’re feeling much better. Check in when ya get the chance!
~Hugs!
[edit 12/2; Much better thank you. Went by yesterday and this morning. You’ve sure been a busy blogger this month. *grin* Tried to comment, but blogger’s not cooperating with me. I’ll be back.
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