Buffistas, please send get-well-soon~ma for one of the ladies who lives at the house I work at. She has a seizure disorder and a compromised immune system. Starting the Monday before last, I've sat in the ER with her 3 times. First time, taking into account symtoms I described going back several weeks (staff who have been there even longer than me kept saying, she was just like this when she had kidney stones) the doc ordered a variety of tests then cut her loose with a script for Tamiflu when the swab for influenza came back positive. Went back with her a week later because she quit drinking fluids and no way am I going to loose someone to dehydration (local urgent care won't do IVs). They actually did some blood tests, urinalysis, and sent some of the urine sample off to be cultured. Blood work came back normal; 3 days later she got a script for an antibiotic because the culture showed a UTI. She started getting a bit better so yesterday I offered her a chance to get out of the house, just drive around a bit. She couldn't climb into her seat in the minivan, threw up, then could not walk back into the house. I called 911. This time, we pushed for a CT scan of her abdomen. Blood work and UA came back normal, CT scan showed kindney stones, but doc said they were not positioned to block anything or cause problems - so he suggested thst she was simply thst weak from influenza and UTI, and to gradually rebuild her strength by slowly increasing her activity level.
Today, staff called me a couple hours before I was due to come in for a shift saying she kept thowing up. I went in early. Our nurse called the on-call doc for the big clinic where this lady's PCP works, on-call doc says, let's get her some anti-nausea meds, and oh, by the way, none of the ER docs bothered to run labs on her seizure med levels, how about I suggest that to her PCP for the follow-up appointment you have scheduled for Monday.
I want the next time I call this person's dad to be about how much better she is doing.