It all started a couple weeks ago when I was packing like a fiend. Things were going pretty good really and I was feeling alright. In the middle of packing, I noticed intermittently that I had a weird sort of sensation behind my feeding tube. It felt kind of like a stick poking into my […]
Read MoreI mentioned in the last post that I’ve been really hoping the bleeding would settle down in my wound, but unfortunately nothing was getting better and we couldn’t just keep waiting. My doctor refused to see me until I went to the ER because in her words “I told you to go before, and my […]
Read MoreWound up back in the Emergency Department again today. I didn’t want to go but the on call doctor told me I HAD to. Then, the Emergency Department discharged me without stabilizing my condition and despite the fact that that my doctor CALLED AHEAD AND TOLD THEM I WAS COMING they chastised me for showing […]
Read MoreGuess who was awake all night in tears last night? Yep. Me. I went in to see my GP and it turns out I have not one but two kidney stones trying to pass. Kind of the Emergency Department to only mention the 4mm one, wasn’t it? One is 7mm (that’s huge) and is obstructing […]
Read MoreAfter being callously rejected from the ER yesterday without a second glance or a test that made sense for my symptoms (I mean, come on. A chest X-ray for lower stomach pain that wrapped around to my back along with syncope?) I went home, and I tried to carry on with my day while feeling […]
Read MoreToday was terrible. Instead of delivering flowers I spent the day in the ER. I had uncontrollable terrible abdominal pain and I fainted twice before leaving the house this morning and nearly fainted twice in triage. They didn’t investigate my stomach pain at ALL, but they did medicate me for it. First time on […]
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