yesterday I went in for my 4th drain a pint off session. Hemoglobin was still at 16.9... had a different nurse in the infusion lab and she was showing another how to do the phlebotomy as she has never done it before. The one doing it said "you keep going till the bag is as big as a tick about to pop off" ...and we did there was no way any more blood was going in that bag. I drank my oj in for of Tang and left. I went to the park to relax and be outside there were some rather nasty teenage boys there and I ended up walk more than I usually do but still felt good though a bit tired when I got to the other shelter house, I am now about a block from my car... reading email and drinking my water, was very hot here yesterday. Then out of the blue the world started spinning and a wave of nausea... I ended up putting my head down on the picnic table and about the same time water comes pouring out of every pour in my body. I could not see straight but did manage to call my son, no answer (he was at work), then called his supervisor no answer, they work construction so figured they were pouring so since had left messages I left head down and closed my eyes. I finally decided that perhaps I should call someone else, so called a dear friend and coworker who came to the park with her adult son who if needed could have picked me up and carried me away. I could not focus good enough to try and call 911 as couldnt make out the numbers on phone but did recognize the pictures of who I was calling. She called 911 and dialed 411 on my phone so I could get ph# for my sons work connected..
At ER think they were more interested in my leg going crazy than anything that caused me to be there... One of the doctors did get in my backpack on my walker and get out the package of Skelaxtin and let me take one when I had my wits back about me (almost done with the second bag of saline) They drew H and H in ER and my trip to the infusion lab for phlebotomy did a bang up job, my hemoglobin was down to 13.5. Dx...you dont fill the bag till it is as big as a tick ready to pop off!! I had a reaction to losing to much blood in a short time and that is what had caused the dizziness, nausea and profuse fluid loss. Still feeling a bit weak today but much better than even when I was released from ER.
Thinking I might have to find a different place to have the pint drained off if needed again in 2 weeks as this is same place as the one who didnt see the NO IODINE IN ANY FORM on front of my chart 2 weeks ago.