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Date Posted: 17:14:32 02/10/07 Sat
Author: Richard
Author Host/IP: 198.detroit-20rh16rt.mi.dial-access.att.net / 12.75.55.198
Subject: Well I am still here... and Rhonda...

Ronda that is an awesome reply below. Me? Hun? It has been long tough weird life and life was not welcoming me much either, whether of my doing or that of others. You believing in me so, so uplifts me. I get that in here ya know. I am still not so used to it.

My regular doc "Greg" an internist said if they found a clot he would only up the dosage of Coumadin, a blood thinner to dissolve the clot. Vascular Services found a clot. It is big one I guess. I had to come off of Coumadin five days prior to the placement of my new med port so I would not bleed to death during the surgery. That opened the door for the clot. So, security escorts me over to emergency at the order of Greg’s brother “Ted” an internist also. Greg’s wife is having a baby as it turns out. Ted is not up to date of my medical procedures, thus he determines that my regular Coumadin treatment has not been therapeutic and orders admittance and treatment of IV heparin until my blood gets thin enough to dissolve the clot and then afterwards be on so high a dosage of Coumadin that I cannot risk using a razor to shave and bunch of other restriction.

ER was swamped. As explained in my previous post I was totally exhausted. I did not want to go for the Ultrasound straight from my doc’s office the other day. The checkout counter was swamped. I just could not withstand the wait. I went home 15 miles away. I call back… end up with Beaumont Hospital’s Vascular Service and appointment and hour later. I was sitting in the ER in a wheelchair listening to others about how long they had to wait. I finally told a nurse that I was way exhausted and would rather take a chance with my life and go home and up the Coumadin. They then, took me to one of those curtain rooms, only they have two stretchers crowded in it. A male nurse uses a long one-inch needle to try access my new med port placed in my upper right arm. I tell him it is much smaller port than he is used to and a long needle will not work. He assaults my port to now avail. The reason for ER was to immediately start treatment. Hours went by before a proficient nurse with a correct small needle accesses it.

I get sent up to the oldest part of the hospital, old worn mattress with my many joint & bone diseases, cramped room with dirty cramped john. They shut down that unit over the weekend. I get moved up to the newest South Tower… like wow… immense, modern, hotel like, with my MRSA, I get a private room. I see Ted in the morning. Protocol now anyway is for the hospital to treat all patients with clots inpatient, so it did not matter Greg’s plans. Two to three days treatment of heparin and now with Coumadin also, and I get to go back home on only slightly higher dosage of Coumadin at home.

My brother-in-law brought me stuff I need and my computer, which was getting lonely. So this all I am going to do now and then take a nap.

I am sure collectively you all know about how much the human spirit can take… like your still here… so just how much can the human spirit can take.

Mentally, emotionally, & spiritually kinda in suspension, which much better to where I was moment ago.

RICHARD

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