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Date Posted: 16:27:03 08/28/03 Thu
In reply to:
chrystynne
's message, "venting inside--->" on 17:43:03 08/25/03 Mon
>here's something serious.
>
>we're gonna be suing my sister's cardiologist.
>
>when she was born, she had a heart defect, she had a
>hole in her heart. i think it's called PDA, pulsus
>ductus artereosus. anyway, in high school here, she
>still had it so they had her off P.E. several months
>ago, she started having chest pain. she then had a
>transesophageal echocardiogram to see how the defect
>was and it turned out ok. the hole closed on its own.
>she continued to have chest pain so the cardiologist
>did a cardiac cath. she developed a blood clot which
>made it painful to walk and you couldn't palpate the
>pulse on her foot.
>
>she had to go and have surgery because of the blood
>clot. she went for a saphenous vein bypass graft
>because the artery was clotted off big-time. it worked
>in the beginning but her circulation was still bad and
>her leg still hurt. her leg was hurting because the
>blood vessels were going into spasms because of the
>bad blood flow. she literally couldn't walk too far.
>
>on the 15, she had a R aorto-femoral bypass /c
>supplemental fem-pop, harvest of femoral vein on the
>15th. just imagine an incision in your belly about 12
>inches long and another incision from your groin down
>to your kneee---that's how extensive it was. they took
>her to surgery at 7am and they got her to a room at
>5pm only to go back to surgery at 8:30pm because she
>developed, can you believe it? compartment syndrome
>and had to go for an emergency fasciotomy. that's when
>the pressure within your tissues elevates compromising
>your circulation making the limb harder and painful as
>hell. from that, she had 2 3inch long open incisions
>on both sides of her calf.
>
>she was in the close observation for 4 days. then they
>transferred her to a medical floor.
>
>anyway, this whole experience made me realize that i
>can't be a private nurse or a coach, LOL. i've got
>that "suck-it-up" mentality and my poor sister's pain
>threshold is soooo low that she cries just for blood
>draws! i feel terrible because i'm powerless when it
>comes to protecting her from all this. i also feel
>terrible because i want her to be stronger, to just
>suck it up and that's not fair.
>
>the cardiologist is being sued because the cardiac
>cath should not have been done because of my sister's
>age and condition. there really wasn't a dire,
>emergent need to do it but the cardiologist went
>ahead. it was all sudden. we just found out that she
>was having it done. she didn't even get the chance to
>get a 2nd opinion and she could've gotten a
>pulmonologist consult to see if her chest pain was
>respiratory-related. when i read the cardiac cath
>report recently, the doctor used 4 different-sized
>catheters on her.
>basically, she tried one, took it out. tried another,
>took it out and so on and so forth. no wonder she
>developed a blood clot. also, i don't recall her
>getting plavix or something to keep her from clotting
>when she was sent home. when developed a knot in her
>groin area which she's had for months, she was told by
>the nurse that it's "normal".
>
>anyway, my mom told me that she should be going home
>tomorrow or the next day.last week, she got pneumonia
>and a urinary tract infection. i joshed that she's
>surely checking off her list of complications, LOL!
>
>they were able to stitch up her fasciotomy sites
>manually. poor kid went through agony when they were
>doing that day by day. they were basically forcing the
>big open wound together with their hands day-by-day.
>mind you, she was awake when they did that.
>thankfully, it worked and she won't have to go for a
>skin graft which we were afraid that she would have to
>go through today. from what i understand, the pain
>would be ten times worse.
>
>she's walking with a walker and i really started
>thinking of god. i was an ortho RN for >2yrs and the
>experience has proven valuable. it made me think that
>you go through experiences for a reason, like this was
>all in god's plan?
>
>another drama in our life is my baby sister who is
>going through a rough patch in her marriage. she's
>giving him a second chance but it looks like the
>divorce will happen.
>
>i swear there's too much drama in our life. can my
>family just have a boring, mundane life for a change?
>challenges like these add flava to life but hey, a
>bland life every now and then wouldn't hurt.;>
>
>i'm okay, although i got sick on her 5th day postop.
>my dad and bro were sick prior and i guess we were
>sharing our germs, LOL! it didn't help that that i
>wasn't really taking care of myself. i couldn't sleep
>or eat in the hospital where i would stay and watch
>her. it felt so unnatural. i think my brain associates
>hospitals with work thus making it difficult for me to
>relax.
>
>i keep on telling myself that my family is due for
>better days. i just need to start believing it.
>
>thank you for letting me vent!!! :)
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