Icu
 

Well guys, interestingly enough, I'm in my local hospital ICU with bilateral blood clots in both lungs. Crazy. Now they are thinking the pneumonia may be pleural effusion due to the clots. I have been these horrible shots in my stomach every 12 hours. I don't know how long it will take for the clots to disappear, but I hope it's soon, but then I will be on a drug called Coumadin for 6-9 months. We don't have a definitive answer why it happened, but consensus say feeling like poo lying in bed apparently caused a few DVTs thar broke and landed in my lungs. I believe divine intervention was at work because we were not planning to go to th hospital. Well, my husband felt something was wrong, and we went. If we waited a week or two, it might have been no more TK. Wow!! Crazy how things work out sometimes. Anyway, I should be out of icu today or tomorrow, and out of hospital, well hopefully Friday. At least no rsd pain the DVTs ultrasound was quite painful, but I made it. Oh, and due to mixed company, I dare not tell y'all my catheter story but it is a doozy.wow!!! Wow ridiculousness. But I'm here by the grace of god.

Wow TK! I hope you are feeling better and recovering from this real soon!!

Thanks for letting us know what is going on with you. Keep us posted!!

Take care -
Nanc
:hug:

Happy to hear...
 

so glad you went to the hospital
the meds you are going to be
taking is to thin that blood of yours
so watch the interaction with other meds
you may be taking
glad you made it
truly great job hubby
by the GRACE OF GOD
AMEN!

someone who cares

When it rains, it pours...
 

So glad you are still with us. I know the treatment is rugged but it beats the alternative. ;) Try to behave and follow orders. Hopefully you will be home in your own surrounding soon. Prayers and best wishes.

Heavens Sake!!!
 

My goodness girlfriend....so glad you are in the hospital...give that man a kiss!!!
Read up on Coumadin,,,rest rest rest...keep us updated.
Keeping you in healing light
Johanna*

Tk how awful!
 

Tk Im so sorry to hear how unwell you are, but thankfully, you husband had the right idea to take you to hospital and thankfully you are being cared for now. Gosh you are going through the mill..... I do wish you a speedy recovery and that you will be home where you belong real real soon


Take good care of yourself , we are all thinking and praying for you.


Jackie:hug:

Hi TK
 

I am so glad you went to the ER and gained treatment!!! DVTs!!! Ouch, and oh my goodness. Glad you went and did not stubborn it out at home like I might have done.

Oh, and that Lady Story you want to share with friends here about, all you have to do is go to the Private Messages area, click up and to the right of this screen where you see your login and you will see private messages. Compose a PM to a lady friend, then add up to nine other lady friends so they may share the grief and humor if there be humor! Arghhhh. Then you may share the story privately so as not to endure or cause embarrassment of one such as Andy or me. Yup.

BE SAFE, kknowing you are in our prayers.
Mark56:hug::grouphug:

I know there are guys with nasty catheter tales. It isn't just a girlie problem. ;) When my grandson was two, he had to go to the ER with a bad viral infection. The idiot nurse took 15 minutes getting the IV in and he has good veins that don't roll. When it came time to put in the cath. she poked that poor baby 10 times before I pushed her out of the cubicle and asked the doctor to call upstairs for a pediatric nurse with good aim. By this time, the little guy was hysterical and would not let anyone outside the family touch him. The doc got a pediatric nurse who took one look at him and said the poor kid had been abused in her opinion. She requested that they give him a mild sedative in the IV and let her rock him for about ten minutes and bond with him. By the time the meds kicked well, he was cooing, giggling and thought the new nurse was his best friend. Naturally, she slid that sucker in on the first try before the child knew what was going on.

BTW the last time I was hospitalized, the floor nurses were having trouble getting the cath in and I requested that they stop and get a pediatric nurse. They did it. End of problem.

Yup
 

Yup, yup, yup, when I was hospitalized because at last the lower half of my body gave way because no surgeon would touch me since I am a lawyer [last doc's words, not mine] nothing was working at all. The compassion surgeon who said he would help me, then had an emergency situation with which to deal because non-functional bowel and bladder lead to a trip to heaven.... I was cathed and whatever else they did after getting me out and under because the pain was bad enough I really wanted something more permanent like that movie about lame horses....

I know guys have such stories, just wanted to give TK a private place to share hers with the gal folk.

Had Cath, will Travel,
Mark56:grouphug: