untonuggan: Lily and Chance squished in a cat pile-up on top of a cat tree (buff tabby, black cat with red collar) (Default)
[personal profile] untonuggan
Just for reference, I never say that I'm at a 10. It's a weird thing with me, but I think at that point I'm probably dead or unconscious. Well, this morning I got to find out what that 10 feels like. We went to the local ER (again) for IV fluids and oh hai food poisoning (again). I liked the doctor a lot better this time, he actually listened! Like when I said that cephelosporins tend to give me C. Diff, he gave me another med to treat the secondary UTI. FUN TIMES. He's also testing me for C. diff and E. coli and all those fun things. But hey, at least my kidney function looks okay! So that is a good sign.

What was the OPPOSITE OF HELPFUL is that both times I have gone in to get IV fluids because no other way would they stay in my system, the IV started  hurting after half a liter of fluids. And they took awhile taking it out yesterday which is why it hit a 10, and I was having trouble telling people TAKE IT OUT I CAN'T BREATHE IT HURTS SO MUCH.

Instead it was, "Well, the vein is still good, I'd hate to start another one, are you sure you want to take it out?"

YES FOR FUCK'S SAKE TAKE IT OUT

Date: 2013-12-07 03:33 pm (UTC)
alee_grrl: A kitty peeking out from between a stack of books and a cup of coffee. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alee_grrl
Oh damn. So many gentle hugs.

Date: 2013-12-07 05:04 pm (UTC)
pretty_panther: (misc: kitty kat)
From: [personal profile] pretty_panther
DDDDDD: *cuddles* I'm glad the doctors listened to you at one point but um ow on the other. Who would voluntarily have another vein get an IV in it unless it was agony?! People~

Date: 2013-12-07 05:56 pm (UTC)
sid: (Sid purple)
From: [personal profile] sid
Oh, honey! *massive hugs* I hope today is MUCH BETTER.

Date: 2013-12-07 07:37 pm (UTC)
sage: Still of Natasha Romanova from Iron Man 2 (beauty)
From: [personal profile] sage
Yipe, that sucks. I get that they're reluctant to cause more pain by inserting a new IV, but if it isn't passing discomfort, they should listen.

FTR, several docs/nurses/PTs have told me that having a solid reference point for 10 is extremely helpful, since otherwise the scale is meaningless and you get people claiming a 7 for a hangnail. Telling them what your 10 is and THEN reporting on the current pain level in relation to that 10 gives them useful data.

Anyway, I hope that was the last ER visit you have to go through and that you feel much better soon!

Date: 2013-12-10 02:06 am (UTC)
brigid: drawing of two women, one whispering to the other (Default)
From: [personal profile] brigid
You also have people going the other direction and overanalyzing their pain. "Well surely a "ten" would be like... being skinned alive while acid drips on me and my toes are on fire and I'm not there so... this compound fracture is like... a four?"

Date: 2013-12-07 08:16 pm (UTC)
cadenzamuse: Cross-legged girl literally drawing the world around her into being (Default)
From: [personal profile] cadenzamuse
UGH. I'm so sorry, hon. I am glad this doctor listens, but :((( the illness and insensitive ER workers.

Date: 2013-12-07 09:12 pm (UTC)
majoline: picture of Majoline, mother of Bon Mucho in Loco Roco 2 (Default)
From: [personal profile] majoline
Oh yikes hon! *all the gentle cuddles*

Date: 2013-12-08 12:23 am (UTC)
tyger: (One Piece) Helmeppo hugging Coby, as he has a haki-awakening induced breakdown on the battlefield at Marineford (Cobymeppo - hug)
From: [personal profile] tyger
Oh jeegus. *snughuggles* D: D: D: Hope that things improve REALLY SOON.

Date: 2013-12-08 08:07 am (UTC)
chalcopyrite: text: "You can't buy happiness, but you can buy tea, and that's kind of the same thing." (words: you can buy tea)
From: [personal profile] chalcopyrite
Oh, you poor thing! ::very gentle hugs:: I really hope things improve.

Date: 2013-12-08 09:15 am (UTC)
st_aurafina: Rainbow DNA (Default)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
Ooooowwwww. *gentle hugs*

Date: 2013-12-08 12:29 pm (UTC)
shanaqui: Ban and Ginji from GetBackers. ((BanGinji) Together)
From: [personal profile] shanaqui
Errkkk. *sends love and good thoughts*

Date: 2013-12-10 02:07 am (UTC)
brigid: drawing of two women, one whispering to the other (Default)
From: [personal profile] brigid
Ahhhh that really sucksssssss I hope you start feeling AWESOME soon.

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