Oh Cindy, I am just welled up with so much reading this. How many times do these errors result in catastrophe with no one advocating for the patient? Sending all my positive healing thoughts in your direction.
Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.
'Underneath'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Oct 14, 2019 3:08:56 am PDT #12291 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
amyth - Oct 14, 2019 4:51:56 am PDT #12292 of 30019
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Cindy, that's terrifying. Sending so many healing vibes. I don't know if I would have the spoons to be enraged at the moment, either, but I'd definitely be saving it up.
Jesse - Oct 14, 2019 5:06:12 am PDT #12293 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh god, Cindy, how awful and scary! I hope he keeps recovering well.
Jesse - Oct 14, 2019 5:07:15 am PDT #12294 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For my part, I am taking the day to recover from the brass band festival, which was amazing. I sort of wish I were joining people in Providence today for one more festival, but I really need the time!
Jessica - Oct 14, 2019 6:03:51 am PDT #12295 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Holy SHIT Cindy, that is beyond unacceptable.
Dana - Oct 14, 2019 6:26:18 am PDT #12296 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
So I guess it is no longer the weekend, and I'm expected to work again. This is a very worrying trend.
EpicTangent - Oct 14, 2019 6:52:17 am PDT #12297 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Dana, same.
Theodosia - Oct 14, 2019 10:32:58 am PDT #12298 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Traffic was so great today, though -- I mean, I walked, but then I drove a couple trips through Cambridge, so I got the benefit of a kinda-holiday. I took one resident to get a flu shot (she was out the day they had in-house inoculation) at CVS, and then another two of them on a shopping trip to Star Market, so it was a low-stress 'off' day.
Tomorrow I drive a busload to see foliage. I may just head towards New Hampshire until someone stops me...
Jesse - Oct 14, 2019 10:54:04 am PDT #12299 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Flu shot! That's what I should have done today! But I already had my excursion out of the house.
Zenkitty - Oct 14, 2019 11:19:24 am PDT #12300 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, Cindy, I am incandescent with rage on your behalf also! Do NOT let this go. Whenever you can drag it up from the basement. Whoever wrote that prescription is either badly misinformed or deadly careless.
The same thing happened to me after my second surgery on my ankle -- the doctor put me on three times the dosage of blood thinner I should have gotten (Xarelto), and I got my period, and the floodgates opened and wouldn't close. I almost bled to death. After I collapsed in the bathroom and went to the ER, they admitted me and gave me three blood transfusions. When I finally got to talk to the doctor who wrote the prescription, she blamed it on someone else and refused to talk to me about it. I still feel like I should have done something.
I hope your son has no lingering ill effects from this! My experience, fwiw, is that when the drug is discontinued and the hemorrhaging is stopped, and the lost blood is replaced, the body does recover quickly.