'Touched'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I have no thoughts or wisdom, AmyLiz, but will send ~ma. I'm glad that she's in hospital, though, where the doctors and nurses can figure it out.
vw, if your landlady wants to show an immaculate apartment with minimal stuff, she can wait until you are all moved into your new place and stage it. In the real world, people have stuff and it doesn't always find its way back to the place where it came from. Some of it probably didn't even have a place. I find I have no sympathy for your landlady.
Maybe a hormonally induced migraine, Amy? Her hormones have to be in deep flux, so soon after giving birth.
Maybe a hormonally induced migraine, Amy?
Do migraines cause blood pressure that high, though? That's what concerns me, and it's freaking me out that the MDs actually admitted her.
I'm sorry -- I was unclear before -- her doctor had her sent to the hospital in an ambulance, and they've already done a CAT scan and are preparing to do a spinal tap. Apparently the MDs keep talking about the epidural, but I'm thinking blood clot or something. I'm sorry -- the baby's so little, and my brother's all alone down there with her, and their two older kids. My SiL's mom just left a day or so ago.
JZ!!! You're the best. I haven't had a chance to try on the blouses yet, because I was cooking dinner when Dave got the mail, but I love the Tea knowledge cards (I thought I had everything tea related, but I don't have those), and your card was so sweet. Thank you!
AmyLiz, I was told that sometimes the epidural can cause headaches in the week following. I hope she's ok.
Edited because, yeah, it's serious enough to send her to the hospital. Gah.
{{AMyLiz}} I don't know what it could be, but I hope it's fixable and quick. Much ~ma.
it's freaking me out that the MDs actually admitted her.
I'm guessing they admitted her because the headache came on so suddenly, out of the blue -- because a headache is such a nonspecific symptom of a gazillion conditions, the MDs need to err on the side of caution.
And hormones could cause a migraine, and a migraine could definitely make her blood pressure spike. The pain of the migraine is a stressor on the body, and that makes blood pressure rise. (And 190/100 is high, yes, but it's not out-of-the-ordinary high, if that makes sense.)
{{{AmyLiz}}} Tons of ~ma to your sister-in-law and hoping it was just a bad headache that doesn't mean anything. Sorry, that I am a bad person who skipped to post without reading what was going on first.
And 190/100 is high, yes, but it's not out-of-the-ordinary high, if that makes sense.
Okay. Good. I know that mine is always 110/70 and considered normal, but I don't know much about it other than that.
Also didn't realize a migraine/pain could elevate your blood pressure. Makes sense.
I just...hate stuff like this. Because I can't do anything, and I can't be there, and sudden hospitalizations send me right back to childhood and scary memories of my mom being ill. (She's chronically ill with lupus.)
And now that Cashmere mentioned it, I remembered reading about post-epidural headache.
I did a quick google of "epidural" + "headache" + "delayed" and, just skimming the results, it's not uncommon for a headache to occur this long after an epidural puncture. It's also eminently treatable.
So, fingers crossed.