The emergency room
Warning: somewhat graphic description in the second sentence.
Tonight's my sister's turn. Vomiting, diarrhea, blood. There had been a car accident, so she's just being seen after a 4+ hour wait. Mom wanted to come, but -- since she can't drive until she's been seen by her doctor next week, and will probably be banned until she's had the next angioplasty, AND, due to COVID, only one person can be with a patient at a time -- I convinced her to stay home.
Sis is in atrial fibrillation at the moment. First time for everything.
BTW, have I mentioned that I ran out of antidepressants and couldn't get them filled for over a week?
I'm so glad I'm here to help, but things are getting stressful.
ETA: Sis will be spending two nights in the hospital on IV antibiotics for colitis.
Tonight's my sister's turn. Vomiting, diarrhea, blood. There had been a car accident, so she's just being seen after a 4+ hour wait. Mom wanted to come, but -- since she can't drive until she's been seen by her doctor next week, and will probably be banned until she's had the next angioplasty, AND, due to COVID, only one person can be with a patient at a time -- I convinced her to stay home.
Sis is in atrial fibrillation at the moment. First time for everything.
BTW, have I mentioned that I ran out of antidepressants and couldn't get them filled for over a week?
I'm so glad I'm here to help, but things are getting stressful.
ETA: Sis will be spending two nights in the hospital on IV antibiotics for colitis.
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Thank you for your good wishes. It means a lot.
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I've driven more in the past week than I have in the previous five years.
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FYI colitis isn't a disease itself, it is a symptom like "fever". Do they know what caused it? (Sometimes they just give the IV antibiotics on spec, figuring that if it wasn't caused by a bacterial infection, all the native bacteria in one's colon will just make whatever it is worse.)
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The atrial fibrillation terrified me. Sis is the one person in the family with no heart issues, or so we thought.
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...okay, you had mentioned she'd had wrist surgery, but hadn't mentioned what it was. Why did her ulna need shortening?
The atrial fibrillation terrified me. Sis is the one person in the family with no heart issues, or so we thought.
Yeah, that's pretty alarming. But hopefully manageable?
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At some point, it shifted and began to impinge on the nerve in her wrist. Recently, like just before Thanksgiving, it got much worse. The doctor scheduled her for 23 December so that she could have her first follow-up appointment before she began teaching again on 11 January. If he hadn't been able to do it last week, she would have had to wait until June.
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Thank you again for your lovely gift story. I had suspected it was yours but couldn't believe you were able to write in the midst of so many challenges. Thank you!
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Happy New Year.