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.
'Serenity'
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Oh god, Cindy, how awful and scary! I hope he keeps recovering well.
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!
Holy SHIT Cindy, that is beyond unacceptable.
So I guess it is no longer the weekend, and I'm expected to work again. This is a very worrying trend.
Dana, same.
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...
Flu shot! That's what I should have done today! But I already had my excursion out of the house.
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.
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