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If you have had experiences with pneumothoraces and would like to have your experience posted on this page.. Please e-mail me with your story and I will post it for others to read!!
UPDATED 12-27-05
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I'm writing this page to tell you about my lung disorder and the stuff that has happened.. any questions? E-mail me at uniqueserafina@yahoo.com or icq me at 68803018
I was sitting in the cafeteria with a good friend of mine, whom I will call FRIEND1. I got hit with this pain in my right side of my back. Back by the shoulder blade, it then moved all over the right chest. I had always gotten this pain. I just sit very still and hold my chest side that hurts, they both hurt off and on. I went to classes after lunch. But in Biology I started to feel very ill. I raised my hand, and the teacher thought I was going to answer the question. Instead I said, "I don't feel good, can I go to the office." I stood up as the teacher helped me and he asked another kid in the room to help me to the office. Next thing I know I wake up and the teacher, principle, and guidance counsler are above me. I was laying on the ground with my feet up on a chair, I had passed out. I then got up, feeling embrassed and went to the office. They called my mom and she came in. As we walked out to the car she asked me many questions and said she was making me an appointment first thing at the doctors the next day. Which she did. The next day I went to the doctor and he said that my lungs sounded funny and that He thought I had bronchitis and was dehydrated. He sent me home with antibotics. Then a week later I couldn't breathe and I was worse. My mom took me back in and a great nurse practioner found out that my right lung was 100% collasped. I was sent to the hospital in my town, cause I was going to the military clinic, and had a tube inserted through my ribs into my chest wall to relieve the air. I was told if you line up 6 people.. 2 of them would come back with a lung collasped again. As I was in the hospital my left lung started to collasped. The doctor i had said it was fine. A week after getting out of the hospital, I was in the hospital with a partial collasped left lung. A tube was then inserted in my left lung. Yeah! NOT! A month or two went by and my right lung collasped again. I was sent to LaCrosse Gunderson hospital for surgery. During the laser surgery, the surgeon accidentally bumped a blood vessel and I had internal bleeding and almost died. When the surgeon told my parents that they had to go back in and that it was serious my mom wanted to see me, she says I told her that everythign was going to be alright. I don't remember that. But I sorta remember the doctor telling me they had to go back in and do something and then they put this thing over my face and i went unconsiouc again. When I came out of being unconsicous I was in a great deal of pain. I couldn't talk because they had this tube down my thoart and this tube up my wee wee where i pee into. I tried to talk but couldn't so i wrote a few things on paper for my mom, then i feel back to sleep. When I awoken again, the morphin wasn't helping the pain. I had this little button i was suppose to hold on to and push when i needed morphin.. i threw it down and cried for awhile until they finally found something that worked. It wasn't fun. I then went back under and woke up with every tube out except the one in my side. I was in a lot of pain and could not move.. the morphin I was on did not help the pain at all. They finally put me on something else and it got better. but not much. A month or so later I was in the hospital again in LaCrosse for major surgery on my left lung like the right lung. It went perfect.. no complications. SO I didnt have as much pain.. BUT I threw up a lot after the surgery.. which scared me. The Surgery-is when they make like littles holes in my chest and go in the a camera and this thing and scraped my lungs.. making them stick to my chest wall.. preventing the blebs from forming and poping. I returned to my normal life. But was unable to run like I use to.. I would run out of breathe easily.. and I missed like 2 months of school.
a little after 3 years later-October 1999
I was at home (which is my mom's now) and I was doing tricks with my fat dog, I was asking her to roll over and then BANG I was hit with this terrible pain in my left chest. I cried and went to my room and climbed into bed. Either the next day or the day after I went to the doctor's with a weezy cough and was hospitalized with another tube shoved in my left side. I was only hospitalized like 2 1/2 days. Then was out.. rested, went back to working. Was doing really good.. went through some test to find out what's going on found out in Feb 2000 The specialist diagnosed me with Endometrosis. FUN FUN!! So I was out on the birth control shot to get rid of my period in April.. which really got rid of my period. My period was a every other week hell-throwing up, cramps, moodness, and many other things. I was doing really good until
I was sleeping and I woke up with this annoying sore pain in my right side.. as I got up moving that Monday night, things got worse and the pain moved over to my left side. I had started a new job working from 11pm-7am. So 5am the next day I had to leave this new job to go to the emergency room. Which there I found out I had a collasped left lung. I was given a dose of morphin right away. Surgeion came in a tube was placed in the left lung and I was sent to my room.The next day, WEDNESDAY, the doc came in after my x-ray and said that my tube was shoved in my chest wall so no air was getting out. She pulled it out some, took another x-ray and showed the tube was in the right spot, but air still wasn't coming out. She then uncloged the tube, and the air came out. BUT later that afternoon. another x-ray showed the tube fell out and my lung recollasped. SO I had to have another tube shoved into my left chest wall. This time she couldn't get it in. Because of scar tissue she had a hell out a time. I ended up with a browsed rib after she got the tube in. THURSDAY CAME, they turned off the suction which helps suck the air out, and my lungs recolasped.. same for FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.. then monday.. it stayed up good. YEAH. I was released out of the hospital YESTERDAY. And today's check up went great. We are now looking into surgery yet again.
ABOVE WRITTEN on June 6, 2000 by Tiffany
BELOW WRITTEN on June 14, 2000 by Tiffany
IT IS JUNE 14TH, 2000 AND I HAVE BEEN IN THE CLINIC TWICE SINCE I WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL. ON THURSDAY JUNE 8TH I WAS TOLD I WAS SUFFERING FROM INFLAMMATION (PLEURISY). THEN TUESDAY JUNE 13TH I'M STILL SUFFERING FROM IT ALONG WITH A HIGH HEART RATE, WHY? NOT EXACTLY SURE. DOC HOPES I'M NOT GETTING AN INFECTION. HAVE PUT ON ONE POUND SINCE RELEASED. I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM PAINS IN BOTH LUNGS, DIFFICULITY BREATHING, AND FEVERS. I'M SIGNING OFF. I'LL ADD MORE IF MORE HAPPENS. DOCTOR APT SET FOR JUNE 23RD.
BELOW WRITTEN on July 26, 2000 by Tiffany
Well I'm back to update things since I last wrote.. I have been hospitalized right after I written the above for dehydration, that was why my pulse rate as been so high. I still continue to have difficulties with my blood pressure, its either to high or to low. I have been very ill with muscle aches, and Had my period two weeks straight. I just saw a speaclist yesterday, A OB/GYN, and I am now on the Depo Provera every two months instead of three. I see my lung specialist again on the 10th of August. Today I am having lung pain switching from lung to lung. And its getting sharper with time. THe other day I was driving and I almost passed out. Was told by my doctor that I'm worse dehydrated than the week before and to keep pushing fluids. I have been pushing fluids for a month now and getting no where. I have had reactions to my anti-botics and have bruises for now reason on my legs and arms. Told I have a virus. Anyways, that is my lovely life. I have endometerosis implants in my lungs. They are worse in my right than my left, doctor says its unremarable. Well I'll write again soon.
Below written AUGUST 2ND, 2000 Lets, see anything new from above? I am on COMPAZINE now to help stop the vomitting and nausea. Has helped the vomiting, but still get very sick to my stomach. I've been running a constant fever no higher than 100 degrees. This morning my fever broke. Still having discomfort in my lungs. I talk with a social security disability person tomorrow along with an apt with my specialist on Thursday. I have started putting on a few more pounds. Think that is from the Depo Provera. Well I will update again this weekend if need be.
Below written AUGUST 8th, 2000
I went in to the WALK IN clinic Monday (august 7th) because my pulse was up to 140. And the night before I had lung discomfort. It didn't feel like a collapsed lung, but I thought I was possibly coming down with an infection, so thought the doctor to, who sent me to LAB before x-ray.
Well I peed in a cup first, to see my dehydrated level and then I sat down and the lady started drawing blood. Well as she was doing this I was hit with terrible pain in my left chest. I got up and started to walk to xray, but couldn't breathe, so I was crying and asked the nurse if someone could take me to xray. which they did. Turned out my lung was 3% collapsed. That was about 5pm. Dr. P then came in and took a look at my xray.. this was a little after 7pm. He wanted another xray taken which showed my lung was 5% collapsed. Still to little for anybody to do anything about. So i was sent home and told to return in the morning. Well I didn't sleep worth crap and I was put on Tylenol 3 with Codiene.
Tuesday (august 8) morning, 8am. I returned with also pain in the right lung, so I was in for an xray which showed my left lung wasn't any better and possible 1% bigger. Which would make it 6%. My right lung looked fine, doctor's figure it is just working over time... Well I was sent home again. I went and got my renewal license today. And on the way to walmart to get my prescrition this little kid, like 2 years old. Starts crossing the road from country kitchen to arnold's. I like freaked out, I'm like, "Where is that kids mother?" No parents or other children around. This little 2 year old was crossing the road on this little 3 wheeler bike. I immediatly went into walmart and asked to use there phone to call the cops cause this little kid almost got hit. So I did and the cops went after him. I hung up and havne't heard anything since. I pray to GOD that kid is fine. The poor thing was crying. But anyways, I came home and relaxed and then had to go into the Free Clinic for an x-ray again tonight (august 8th), which showed it wasn't any better and it wasn't any worse. So I do not have to return for x-ray tomorrow UNLESS i get worse. But Thursday I have an appointment in LaCrosse with my specialist about surgery again. IF my lung is still collapsed Thursday I'll more than likely have surgery right away there or in the big MAYO Clinic. If not still collapsed I have no idea what will happen. Dr. P says I need surgery again on my left lung. SO YIPPEE, MY 20th birthday will suck!But hey, what can I do, my health comes first before my b-day. Hopefully this will all get figured out soon!!
below written AUGUST 14, 2000
I BET YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN UPDATED, EH? WELL HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED LAST THURSDAY. Thursday I went in to my specialist and told him that I felt this weird rattle when I breathed, he said he didn't hear it when he listened. And the x-ray showed it was healed. He explained to me that he is sending me to Mayo Clinic in Rochester. There is a specialist there who says that they are now finding slits in the diaphram, which is below your lungs, and that is how the endometeriosis implants are getting into my lungs. What they do to find out is collapse your lung and then go in with a camera. My mom says if they do that she wants them to rescraped so they stick to my chest wall again. So I am waiting to hear when I am going to Rochester. Thursday went on and the crackling just got worse and worse. I only slept a half and hour and then I woke up and had this weird feeling. I felt as if I was loosing my mind. I was sleeping in the recliner downstairs. I walked slowly to the restroom and it wouldn't go away, so i figured i was still really tired. So i went to my bed and layed down. IT got worse. So I went and put in my contacts, I felt as if I need to hurry and put them in, but I didn't, I made myself go slow. But My body felt out of control. I ran and woke up my sister telling her to take me to er. She took about ten minutes to get up and then we went. My high pulse and the symptoms disappeared as I waited to be seen in ER. The doctor listened to my lungs and said he can hear the crackling. So he got an x-ray which showed my pneumothorax is healed. But he was thinking that it may still be a little collasped and when I breathe it is scraping against my chest wall. So I went home, thinking I was just having withdraws from the tylenol. I had two more short lived spells and I called the nurse in ER. She told me I'm having anxiety attacks, I have only had two since then. Today is Monday, August 14. My crackling is gone, and I am feeling much better. I still get short of breathe and some pain in my chest when i do stuff like running on walking fast. So I still have to take it easy. But that is my update so far. Keep in touch with the page to watch for more!!
FOLLOWING WROTE AUGUST 24, 2000
On Tuesday August 15 I went into the free clinic to get medicine for anxiety/panic attacks which I just started having. As I was waiting for my med's I was hit with this sharp pain in my right lung. The doctor gave me medicine for anxiety attacks and had me sit down for 30 mins. When he returned I was still in alot of pain so he sent me to xray. The xray showed a little bitty pneumo.. 2%. He sent me home and said that I didn't need to come in the next day for another chest xray because that would put me through more stress and then I would have a panic attack. So I woke up the next morning and went downstairs, I had a wheezy cough, which I knew was not good. I told my mom she would be taking me in after work if this cough was still there. Becasue last October I had the Wheezy cough when my lung was collapsed 33%. The day, Wednesday, went on and I still continued to have the Wheezy cough. I couldn't get up to walk without it. So my mom took me in and I was sent to xray before seeing the doctor. As I was walking back to the clinic after my Xray I looked and read the little paper attached to the xray "small pnuemothorax" it said. So I figured it was just like 2%. I gave the lady behind the counter my Xray and 20 minutes later I was called back into a room. As I was walking I coughed and I saw the doctor holding an Xray up to the light. My mom was like aren't you suppose to put them on the light thing? I looked at it and I said, "Oh no.. mom its really collapsed." And then the doctor was on the phone with a surgeon explaining it was 30% collapsed. None of the two surgeon's in my town would do anything about it. The one lady said she had to much difficulity last time she didn't feel comfortable with it. And the other surgeon told me to go home and return 10 in the morning for another xray. Well my mom, doctor, or me felt like I should not go home. So he called my specialist at LaCrosse Francscain Skemp. My Specialist there pretty much said he couldn't send me to Mayo right now and to go home and come in, in the morning. Well then the doctor came in and said he didn't know what to do. We then told him about the doctors at Gunderson (the other clinic in LaCrosse). The last times this happened (four years ago) they told me to go straight to ER and they had performed surgery the next day. So my Dr. was like, REALLY? So he called there and they told him to send me to the ER right away.
Remember I'm still on Wednesday here. HAHA
I'm thinking it was about 8pm when we left the hospital in my city to go to LaCrosse. We stopped at my mom's house to pick up a few things for me and then headed to LaCrosse ER. IN THE ER. Dr. Thompson and another doctor both came in and talked to my mom and I. They both agreed that it wasn't safe to send me home. For as it had gotten worse. They explained that they could do surgery on the lower part of my lung like they did the top part there at Gunderson OR they could send me to Rochester Minnesota and they could do it there. My mom was shocked that this doctor could get me in Mayo right then and there and my specialist at Franscisan Skemp in LaCrosse... couldn't. My mom and I agreed to stay there, I felt comfortable with the doctor who was going to do the surgery the next day because he was very caring last time I had him. Well Dr. T then asked me if I felt short of breathe and I said yes, SO then I got Oxygen! (they never would do that for me in sparta) The nurse, which was a male, was very cute and nice. But after they got me situated they sent me to my room and gave me a shoot of morphin right away. I only got like two more shots after that, because it wasn't helping. I was in a lot of pain. Then I was giving this medicine called Oxycodone. Which was great with the pain except the fact that it made me drowsy *L* I feel asleep like BANG. But I woke up a lot in the night uncomfortable. I also had to go pee and they wouldn't let me walk to the bathroom, i had a little potty chair besides me. Well the next day THURSDAY AUGUST 17th which was my birthday I was sent to surgery at 10:30. They gave me many med's to help with the throwing up that may occur after the surgery. I would wake up and go back to sleep many times in the recovery room. I would sludder out questions like, "Am I okay?" "Was there any complications?" Stuff like that and I was fine. I was then sent back to my room upstairs. I Hurt really bad. But I was also hungry. These two CNA's were really nice and picked me flowers from outside and made me a little birthday card. I thought that was so sweet. I then would ring the nurse like that night and asked "Am I getting breathing treatments?" The nurse shakes his head and says "No I don't think so." I thought that was very strange. Well I think it was Friday the next day I was very short of breathe and in more pain. And the nurse called the doctor and then I had an xray, if i remember correctly, and they found a little fluid in my lung. So then I had breathing treatments. I got out of the hospital the following Monday. I am home and still have fluid in my left lung, and a lot of pain. I am on two different pain killers and still have pain. And I have trouble laying down. I have been sweating the nights away and I'm not even hot. I have to change my pjs alot because I wake up and they are soaked. I also am still short of breathe. I had an xray the other day and I still have fluid in my lungs. So that's when they gave me a second pain killer which I don't feel any difference really with it. I have a check up the 30th of August yet with my doctor to see if its any better. They say that the fluid is just suppose to absorb.
Well I had a check up with my surgeon on August 30, 2000. The X-ray looked great the doctor said. My left lung still sounds partially diminished, but he may always be like that because I got fluid in my lung. If you get fluid in your lung while it is collapsed, that is a bad sign. But it isn't that bad because it doesn't show up on X-ray. The fluid is now gone. But the doctor told me that I will get little pneumothoraces from time to time. But not enough to insert a chest tube in. But enough to keep me home on bed rest and in pain. But I'm praying that that doesn't happen for a long time. I will also need surgery someday on my lower right lung. But since it hasn't caused any problems yet, then we aren't going to worry about surgery until then. I also have pain in my lung when I sneeze, yawn, burp, cough, or cry. I will have that pain for two or more months yet. It will take longer for this to hell because of the fluid that was there. I also still can't sleep without pain. Last night I tossed and turned. I finally then took two pain killers and now no pain. But I still have some when I lay down. Here where I live the weather is very humid and hot. So my neighbor who is a really good friend of mine lets me come and nap and hang out at her house becuase she has air conditioning. My moms here broke a few years back. And now that my parents don't live together, money is tight and she can't get it fixed. But we have been fine all summer until yesterday and today is suppose to be worse. I now finally have my appiette back and I also have began having normal bowel movements now. So I think I'm recovering pretty good. It sucks that the pain won't go away. But can't do much about it. I also have still been having anxiety/panic attacks, which I take medicine right on the spot and it works within a half an hour. Still can't drive very far, because I get tired easily. But anyway, that is all I have for now. I'll update again soon!!
Well I'm still at it. Having difficulties. I was starting to feel a little better. I still have left lung pain when sneezing and stuff like before, but its not as bad. What really bugs me is that I constantly feel my lung like pop when I am breathing. The doctor, I saw this past tuesday, said that my lung isn't sticking yet completely to my chest wall. Okay, the surgery I just had was so my whole lung would stick, BUT... it isn't sticking. Okay. That makes sense, right? *L* I suppose maybe the fluid had a part in it? Anyways, back to Tuesday, well this past Tuesday which was September 12th I passed out and I got the watery bowel movements. I got up from my bed and was walking to the bathroom, everything turned black. But I'm use to that, I do that often, well next thing I know I open my eyes and I'm laying on the ground. I got up and continued my day. I felt pretty sick. I ate a donut for breakfast.. well brunch, and about an hour later my stomach made a loud sound, and then I got a gas pain, so I hurried to the bathroom, I went. It was like water. I was like, what the heck? I then didn't eat anything or drink anything the rest of the day becuase I had like 6 or 7 runny bowel movements. Well I went to the doctor and they found some bacteria in my urine and my blood tests were okay. So I was sent home on immoduim and fluids for two days and slowly take sips of water or flat 7 up. But I choose to drink cherry kool-aide. If I drink pop for some reason I'm in the bathroom every 30 minutes at night, and plus I hate 7 up. I'm then suppose to start mashed foods and stuff tomorrow, which will be Friday September 15th. Also try baby food vegtables, since I hate vegtables. I can't help it. Vegtables make me sick to my stomach, I was forced to eat them when I was little, and I remember just throwing them up afterwards cause I hated them. I gag on vegtables. Anyways, today I went up to the Rochester Clinic with a good friend of mine cause she had to take her son up there to get his cast off his legs, he has muscular dystrophy. I picked up a slight lung pain in my right lung. It feels exactly like what mine did this whole summer before it actually collapsed, so I finally broke down and took a tylenol 3. I was getting sick of the constant pain. Well after we left the hospital we went to my friends sisters, who lives in rochester. I took my tylenol 3 and half a hour later, no pain. I went to the bathroom, and guess who visited??? YES YOU GUESSED RIGHT!!!> my lovely period. I didn't even expect it. My underwear was soaked in blood and a little soaked into my jeans. I was in shock. SO I asked my friend if she had a pad, she didn't but her sister did, thank goodness. We then went to SUPER KMART and was looking around and I got a cheap pair of undies and some pads. But as I was doing this everything hit me. I've been sick becuase I've been ovulating. I'm not suppose to get my period. I'm getting the shot every two months. But I'm due for one next tuesday. I was going to get it today.. but I will for sure have to go in monday. But the lung pain is starting to return in my right lung but it has been 6 hours since I had a tylenol. But I'm not going to take another one tonight, i'm going to bed after writing this. But thanks for checking up on how I am. BYE BYE FOR NOW! OH I ALSO MAY HAVE TO HAVE AN ECHO DONE ON MY HEART IN A MONTH OR SO.
Well it's been a while since I've updated this page. Well lets see, I just got out of surgery yesterday on my abdomen and bladder. My bladder surgery took a total of like 10 minutes while my abdomen surgery took a few hours. I have been peeing blood for the past month and have been having a lot of pain in my abdomen. I had an IPF done on my kidney a few weeks ago and they thought my kidney was blocked so I was sent to LaCrosse. Well the doctor up there told me that the IPF looked just fine. So he did a pelvic and found out that my left ovary was very tender. SO I was sent back to Sparta where I made an Appointment with the OBGYN a few days later. He set up for an ultersound which came back normal and then surgery, which I had yesterday. I have a bad case of Endometriosis. He removed all that he could, there was a few spots in the uterus he could not remove the lesions, due to it would cause more complications. In a week I have a check-up and I go off the birth control shot and start the birth control pill so we can stay in control of the little endometriosis lesions I still have. I will more than likely have trouble getting pregnant in the future. So when it comes that time I will have to buy an ovulation kit and possibly take fertility drugs. But the sooner I get pregnant the better. But I just started a relationship and I seriouslly am not ready for a baby. I'm enjoying the time we have together. I finally have my appetite back which is great. OH also the endometriosis was so bad that my bowel was stuck to my abdomen wall. Also have lesions on the diaphram of my lung. I do have off and on right lung pain and I am very sore in the abdomen area. I have three insections. Well that is all for now. I will update again soon.
Well this past weekend I ended up in the emergency room again. I was hospitalized for five hours due to my hemoglobin level was low. I was in my room packing and all of a sudden I couldn't walk. I collapsed and couldn't get up. I kept falling to the right side. It was not fun at all. I called my neighbor since my mom wasn't home and she came to run me to the ER but also my mom showed up and they both took me. I was hospitalized with 1 1/2 bags of fluid pumped into my system. I finally stopped feeling like I was going to throw up so I got to return home. My apt on Monday went good. I'm now getting better, I can eat now and keep foods in. anyways gotta go.
WELL LETS SEE A NEW YEAR AND I WAS TRYING TO START IT HEALTHY, BUT MY LUCK, IT HASN'T BEEN THAT. I'VE BEEN IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR BEING LETHARGIC FROM MY PERIOD. I LIVE WITH CHEST PAIN ALMOST EVERY DAY. I JUST GOT OVER BRONCHITIS THAT WAS GOING INTO PNUEMONIA BUT I FAUGHT IT OFF. I'VE BEEN TESTED FOR MONO TWO TIMES AND STREPT QUITE A FEW TIMES. I'M WORKING BACK AT THE DAY CARE. I WORK MON TUESDAY THURSDAY ADN FRIDAYS. I CAN WORK 6 TO 11 HOURS A DAY. BUT EVERY WEDNESDAY I GET OFF TO REST. WHEN I FIRST STARTED WORKIGN BACK AT DAY CARE IN NOVEMBER I GOT PNEUMONIA REALLY BAD AND I ALSO INJURIED A MUSCLE BY THE SPINAL CORD IN A CAR ACCIDENT. WHICH FROM TIME TO TIME IT ACTS UP, DEPENDING IF I LIFT A CHILD THE RIGHT WAY OR NOT. I'VE STARTED GOING BACK TO CHURCH AND BRINGING GOD BACK INTO MY LIFE. I HAVE GREAT FRIENDS THAT HAVE STAYED BY MY SIDE. ESPECIALLY THROUGH MY SUICIDAL SPELLS IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER. I SLIT MY WRIST AND ODED 3 TIMES. I HAVE BEEN PUT ON DIFFERENT ANTI DEPRESSANTS, AND FOR THEM TO CHANGE THEM AGAIN I HAVE TO SEE A PHSYCITRISTS FOR A POSSIBLE PERSONALLITY/MOOD DISORDER. THE DOCTOR I SAW LAST WEEK DOESN'T FEEL I HAVE MANIA-DEPRESSION. HE FEELS ITS SOMETHING ELSE THAT NEEDS TO BE EVALUATED, AND SO I HAVE TO GO SEE SOMEONE AGAIN. i SAW SOMEONE BEFORE FOR OVER A YEAR, DAMN IT. BUT HEY, I HAVE BEEN EMOTIONAL AGAIN, GUESS IF I WANT TO GET BETTER THIS IS THE WAY TO BE. I HAVE A KITTEN NAMED SYNAMYN. SHE IS A BIG PART OF MY LIFE RIGHT NOW. UM, I DO COUGH A LOT TOWARDS THE END OF THE DAY, ESPECIALLY WHEN TIRED. NEXT TUESDAY I HAVE AN APT WITH THE LUNG SPECIALIST SO I'LL SEE WHAT MY PFT'S ARE NOW. THEY WERE AT 47 PERCENT, I FIGURE THEY ARE RUNNING AT 30SOMETHING. ANYWAYS, THIS IS A QUICK UPDATE. THANKS FOR CHECKING UP ON ME. TIFFIE
Whoa has it been a while. Man I know i'm going to miss stuff. I have surgery tomorrow morning, well a surgical procedure. Coloscopy... its to test for Cervix Cancer. I've had tiny collapses over the year. No hospitalization. Um Last summer I was in the hospital multiple for suicide attempts and depression. Still continue to fight depression and panic attacks. But am not suicidal. I still fight lung pain, alot actually lately. I've also had fluid in my lung earlier this year. I'm on an inhaler for when my lungs act up and hurt. Sometimes I have this tight feeling. I also picked up this heartburn sensation off and on.. was put on medicine to help it.. something about acid coming up and causing heart burn, that medicine did work so i was put on the inhaler which helped ALOT!!... but yes i still experience a lot of pain and tiredness. Its the time of year where people start mowing there lawns so i'm sure i'll have a hospital stay here soon with a chest tube. I know my body and my lungs and i feel it coming. people say i over react.. but if you've been in my shoes or experienced what a lot of us do with lung disorders, or any disorder, we know our bodies! Am i right?? well i must be off to bed.
Thanks for checking up on me.
Tiffanie
Well its been a few years. Dont know where to start. I haven't had anymore collapsed lungs from what i remember. I have been in the hospital many times for suicide attempts and suicide. I have borderline personality disorder, panic attacks, schizoeffective disorder, ptsd, and possible bioplar disorder. Those are the mental disorders i have. I have to go to a dialectical behavioral therapy class every tuesday and also see a counsler once a week. Been doing okay since i started the group. I have a lot of health problems and have been in the hospital many times for low blood pressure (neurocardiogenic syncope, vasovagal sycope). A high heart rate when standing or with activity from time to time called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. I also have Fibromyalgia and still suffer from endometeriosis. I had surgery again for endo on March 24 or 26, 2005. The doctor didn't see anymore lesions but did see scar tissue and my bowels was stuck up again. They also took out my appendix. I was in a car accident in May which totaled my car and injuried my neck and back and I get Migraine now and ihave to take imitrex for them. I never use to get headaches until this accident. I have had 3 miscarriages over the years and recently gotten an infection and now may not be able to have kids. I also went from 83 pounds to 145 this year and they were concerned i am getting diabetes from the quick weight gain and Zyprexa causes diabetes. so they took me off of Zyprexa and i went off the birth control shot cause that can make you put on weight too. I have strecth marks all over the tops of my legs.. so embrassing. But hey atleast i finally put on weight.. and now im trying to lose 15 pounds. I only wanted to weigh around 125. I am not working, im on social security disbaility at this time. Since I last wrote I worked at a junior girls clothing store in the Mall called Debs and then I went and worked at the Local Hospital as a Medical Records clerk and then at Walmart as a Cashier. Im would like to go back to workign as a medical records clerk since ive been feeling better lately. Im just scared Ill start having problems again. I might have to get a pacemaker if i continue to have problems. Guess we'll see what happens. Thanks for checking up on me and sorry it took so long for me to update this page. enjoy!
Tiffanie
I have history of collapsed lungs. But a few years ago I had pleurisy really really bad and they didn't know what to do for me.. then finally my left lung collapsed and they did surgery on the bottom of my left lung and I hadn't had any problems until now. I had right lung pain. I called my clinic on monday to make an apt to see a doctor because i had been having tiredness/fatiuge, headaches, weight gain, sore thoart, fevers, etc. After I hung up with making the apt for that day my chest started hurting. I was sad cause i didn' want another collapsed lung. I rested til my apt then the doc listened to my lungs and said they sounded fine and that he would do a chest xray anyways because of my history. It came back negative for a collapsed lung. He said I had pleurisyand gave me a shot of toradol for the pain and sent me home. He had also ran blood work, strept test, and thyroid test.. all but the thyroid test are back and they were normal. Monday night I took my nephew trick or treating.. I had some pain but the toradol helped with the worse pain.. I had a little cough. WE took it slow trick or treating. Then through Monday night my chest started hurting worse and worse.. the Toradol shot wore off.. I started coughing more. I called my doc and talked to his nurse asking if i could get some pain killers and his nurse called me back and said that the doc said he'd have to see me before prescribing anything. then she told me he was out of town that afternoon and the next day (wed). So i called the reception desk and made an apt with a differnt doctor for wednesday. Then I saw the doctor on wednesday (nov2) and he said he didn't like my cough.. i sounded like a person with a collapsed lung.. but he listened to my lungs and said they sounded good. But he prescribed tylenol 3 with codeine.. and to continue taking ibprofen for the inflammation and if needed take robutussin for the cough. He said the codeine should help with the cough.. which it does a little but the tylenol 3 isn't helping the pain. If this continues I would like to make an apt to see my surgeon and possibly have surgery on the bottom of my right lung. The surgeon said I would need it some day but we would wait til i had problems with it. I've had 15 collapsed lungs and 3 lung surgeries.. tops of both lungs and bottom of my left lung. They scrap the chest wall and the lung so that they stick together. So when they scrap the lung they are scraping off the blebs (air pockets) I was born with. The doctor did have to take a piece of my lung out to get it all once. But I have my ultrasound at 10:15am today for abdomen pain and pelvic pain.. and i have acid indgestion and taht's suppose to see if anything is wrong there to I guess.. But anyways Ill update again later. Thanks for visiting. you can eamil me with any questions. tiffanielee@hotmail.com
Well I thought I would inform you guys on how im doign since i had my doctor apt with my internal medicine specialist.
My blood pressure was higher than normal and my pulse was high.. more than likely from the pain. I told him im still in alot of pain and he said i have bronchitis ontop of pleurisy so he doubled my darvocet. He said I was taking to much ibprofen and that can be hard on your stomach.. i was taken 1000mg. He said only take 800mg. I need to continue takin it to help the inflammation. and to take cough syrup to help the cough. And to rest. He said the Pleurisy will go away in time.. it just takes a while.
I had to take my car into the shop. Whenever I slowed down or pick up speed from being stopped or turn left it would make this sound like a squeling sound. It sounded like it was coming from teh front left tire.. so im hoping it is something cheap they can fix.
1:22pm well the car place called and said my brake pads were worn. so he had two choices of what to get and i choose the expensive ones cause he said they are more likely not to split and last longer... Im hoping now nothing else will go wrong. Cause I just got the muffler fixed last week and now it was this.. sucky.. anyways just updating quick.
Well its Wednesday.. been a week and a half with pleurisy.. how nice.. and now bronchitis. I called the doctor today cause the Darvocet isn't working and I was coughing in the night so i slept pretty crappy. My doctor is out of town til the 14th so the nurse said she would talk to the doctor on call and get back to me.. a few hours later they called me back. He Prescribed Tramadal/apap and hydrocodone/hom 5-1.5/5SYP. The doctor said to take them at seperate times. So at Noon I took the Tramadal/APAP and didn't get drowsy but it helped a little for pain. Then at 2pm I took the hydrocodone (cough syrup with a pain killer in it), oh my god does that stuff make you droggy. Its suppose to help so I dont get pneumonia which they are getting concerned I might be getting if my cough is getting worse. I took another dose of Tramadal at 4 cause you can take every 4-6 hours. Im also taking 800mg of ibuprofen every four hours for inflammation. My right ear has been popping off and on.. its annoying.
what else is going on in my life. Well I got Social Security Review Papers I need to fill out. They review cases every year. Im starting this online personal ads at personals.yahoo.com. Ive met a few good looking and nice guys.. hoping to met them sometime. A little nervouse though to met them.. cause there are some scary guys out there. My friends have told me about their friends experiences with personal ads. With my online friend Adam he helped me do a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy assignment since I missed class yesterday. Thanks ADAM!!
The game Adam and I play World of Warcraft is fun but our guild isn't doing so well so Adam made a new guild called The Abundant Few. So we are hoping to get alot of people to join that. Maybe Friday I'll be going Christmas shopping with my mom.. yippee. Anyways that is all for today. Thanks for stopping by.
Well time to update again. I had a doctor appointment today to get my right ear checked because I had popping in it. He also listened to my lungs and said the bronchitis is better.. but about 60 percent of people who have bronchitis and gets better will have a cough for up to 8 weeks after having bronchitis. So he uped my hydrocodone, cough syrup with a pain killer in it, to every 4 hours instead of 6 hours.. he could of put me on the pill form but the liquid form form works faster. So he gave me a bigger bottle of hydrocodone. So I am drugged up I swear.. I fall asleep after taking this cough syrup with pain killer.
But my ear tube in the back is swollen and that's why I am getting that popping sensation. He said its not all the way blocked by the swolleness so its going to be okay.. its more than likely from the virus that caused me to get pleurisy and bronchitis. I can still take the Tramadal/apap if needed. I have some popping in my left lung when i breathe.. but Im sure it is fine and will go away.. cuase its the right lung that hurts. anyways Im to tired to type more. thanks for stopping by!
Hey all. Well Im doing better when it comes to the Pleurisy and Bronchitis. I haven't used pain killers since like sunday. And I used the pain killers with cough syrup Tuesday. So that's better. I still have a cough from time to time. I have had trouble with my sleeping patterns. I'm up all night, like tonight, then fall asleep in the morning and sleep all morning and into the afternoon. So I tried to go without sleeping all day but I started hearing voices, so the pyschitrist said he was going to up my seroquel Tuesday and Wednesday night from 100mg to 200mg then on Thursday night take 300mg. So I took my first dose of 200mg on Tuesday night. I feel asleep and when i woke up Wednesday I had like no energy. I just layed in bed.. it was almost like being lethargic. Took my 200mg dose on Wednesday night.. Thursday was worse than wednesday.. I got dizzy spells and just layed in bed all day. I didn't have energy to do anything. Well Thursday night I took the 300mg dose even though i didn't want to and i ended up throwing up. I called the doctor on Friday.. well his nurse tells me he is out of town.. so she's going to talk to another pysychitrist.. she calls me back later and says to stay on the 100mg dose.. dont up it. So here I am 3am and Im back in my pattern of being awake all night and sleeping in the day. But Seroquel is from the makers of Zyprexa, I think, and when they uped me from 10mg of zyprexa to 15mg I was throwing up that night too. So they never uped me higher than 10g, but i was putting to much weight on with Zyprexa, they had to keep checking me for diabetes. But all and all I feel better.. just not sleeping right. So thanks for the prayers!!
Alright from the beganning. Tuesday December 6th I had some slight right side pain early in the morning. I thought maybe I was getting my period. SO I didn't think much about it and went back to sleep. Come about 1030am-11amish I woke up and it was a bit worse so I took some darvocet that I had from when i had pluerisy. Then climbed back into bed. The day went by and I was tossing and turning. Then came about 1:30ishpm and i was in alot of pain and felt very sick. I rushed to the bathroom. I didn't know if i was going to pass out or throw up.. I ended up throwing up. then I got diaherra.. I called my mom at work and asked her to cmoe take me to the ER she said I probably had the flu. I said maybe but i wanted to be checked. So she got off work and came and picked me up. We went to ER. They wanted a urine test right away. I peed in the cup and it was pure blood. I was so scared then. They then put an IV in me and gave me a shot of demoral. They took blood also and the nurse asked if I was anemic and I asked why and she said that my blood was more on the pink side then the red side. I got even more worried. My mom told me she had like Kidney Toxic infection a few times and they hurt really bad.. so she said maybe that's what i had.. well anyways after four shots of demoral and none of it working the doctor got concerned and decided it was time for a CT scan to check for kidney stone. The CT scan came back showing a kidney stone. So he gave me a shot of nubane and said he was goign to hospialize me due to the pain. So then a little bit later I got another shot of Nubane and i was starting to feel better. Then when i got up to my room they gave me one more shot of nubane and i felt like i was in heaven. Well on Wednesday December 7th I passed the stone in the morning. I still had this pelvic/bladder spasms but the pain actually felt better so i was sent home and to follow up with my doctor on friday. Thursday I slept most of the day.. I think just tired out from all the pain i was in and the pain killers.. Then Friday I got hit with the major pain in the right side again. I called my doctor and his nurse said for me to come in earlier than the appointment time and they would squeeze me in. Well the doctor examined me and said i still had blood and calcium in my urine. He then examined me and said I had another kidney stone.. he then gave me a shot of nubane and then sent me home said if it got any worse to come to ER and they may have to hospitalize me. Well after about 30 minutes the pain was much better. I went out with my friends at pizza hut like we do every friday night. Then about 1am Saturday december 10th I got hit with really bad pain again. I came in to the Emergency room.i checked in and then the nurse, Lee, asked me questions such as what i was allergic to etc. then like ten minutes later the doctor walked in.
Dr. Trites asked me what's wrong and i told him how i had a kidney stone on tuesday and then i saw dr. joe yesterday (friday) and he gave me a shot of nubane and sent me home, and that dr. joe said to come in if it gets worse. then dr. Trites is like "you like that nubane stuff dont ya?" and smiled at me and i said "its the only thing that helps" he then poked on my right side and it hurt and then he left the room. a few minutes later the nurse, Lee, came in and said "come with me we need a urine sample." so i followed her and asked if i needed to strain my urine like i was told to do at home and she said "no we'll know when you pass the stone.. you wont be in pain any more" so i gave her the urine sample and then twenty minutes later she came to my room and said she was giving me a pain med and i asked "what one?" and she said Demoral and i told her how they had given me four shots of that on tuesday and it didnt work. she said "oh just give it a chance" and i was like "ok" and then the pain didn't get better and i was crying and half an hour later she comes in the room and has discharge papers for me. she's like "why are you crying?" and im like "im in a lot of pain. that demoral didnt work on tuesday they gave me four shots of it on tuesday" and she's like "did you tell the doctor that" and im like "i didn't have a chance.. he only asked a couple questiosn and i haven't talked to him since" she then said she'll talk to the doctor and see about a differnet pain med well like 15 minutes later he came in my room and asked what the matter was and i told him I was in alot of pain. and he asked if they gave pain killers through iv on tuesday and im like yes and he ask "then they sent you home?" and im like "no they kept me 24 hours" he just walked away. then the nurse returned and put an iv in and gave me nubane with benadyrl. then left.. she said I needed to rest. well that didn't help the pain and when she told the doctor he was going to give me morphin and i was like "im allergic" and he is like "you are?" Im thinking 'did he even look over my chart?'
well then they gave me toradol and that helped just a little so then they gave me another shot of nubane with benadryl. I asked the nurse, Lee, if she knew what the doctor was going to do with me. She told me the doctor was sleeping and after 7 he'll call dr. joe about being put in the hospial.. well i was so drugged up that I kept dosing off.. but i still had pain and i kept telling the nurse this. well it came 7oclock and i had to pee. well there were different nurses on at 7am.. so i asked the nurse if i could have another pain shot yet and she said she would look.. well five minutes later the doctor comes in and says he is sending me home. and im like "what about the pain?" he then said i'd be fine and i told him "im just concerned that when those pain killers will wear off Ill be back in." he shrugged and walked out. so when the nurse took out my iv and wanted me to sign the papers that i agree with the discharge summary.... i refused. and i told her ill be putting in a compalint and then i went home and i was still in pain so i called the walkin and talked to linda and she told me to come in, so i went straight to the walk in, well dr. hadjiev asked questions about what happened and took another urine test and ran blood work to make sure i didn't have an infection and then he said he wanted to do another ct scan. so they did it and it came back showing i had a stone stuck in the middle of my uterea and said he was putting me in the hospital for pain control and i have to make an appointgment to see urologist on monday.
I feel that all dr. trites cared about was sleeping. He never asked me questions like the other ER doctors do. Such as when the pain started and etc. he only spent like a minute in my room all together. I also feel that he assumed that I was just addicting to narcotics by his comment of "you like that nubane stuff dont ya?" So Saturday (december 10th) I was put back in the hospital. I was in the hospital Til Wednesday (December 14), then since i hadn't passed the stone they sent me to a urologist in LaCrosse to have him do surgery and remove the stone. Well the doctor said he wanted to do A IVP, where they put dye in your system to see if a stone is stuck somewhere. Well the IVP came back showing i didn't have a stone and he called the lab about that stone i passed on Wednesday Dec7 and it turned out it wasn't a stone.. it was a fiber (like a clot). So he said i had no stones so he wasn't doing surgery. So we came back to the hospital in sparta and saw a good doctor in the ER.. he has always been a good doc, but he ran some blood work and found my liver enzymes were slightly elavated so he felt it is my galbladder or fatty liver disease caused by putting on to much weight in a short period of time. So he ordered an ultersound for Thursday (dec 15) and sent me home on the narcotic that helped while i was in the hospital. Well this was wednesday.. so then came the next day "thursday" I came in had my ultersound and then saw dr. hadjiev. he reran a bladder tests and blood work and pregnancy tests. Bladder test came back showing I had a bladder infectio nand my liver enzymes were still elavated and pregnancy test was negative. So I was sent home. SO I went home and went to bed and slept all the time besides when i ate, drank, and peed. then came Friday December 16,2005.. im back in the hospital... i collapsed at home in the shower.. not passed out.. just collapsed.. to weak.. and i called a cab and came into the er. The Er doctor sits there and tells me nothing is wrong with me.. im a young gilr.. usually bad things dont happen to young people. so he pretty much tells me that its all in my head. well the nurse helped me to the bathroom twice and i almost passed out on her. both times.. so when the doctor was discharging me she came in the room and talked to me.. she said she knew that i didnt want to go home like this and she could talk to the supervisor of the hospital and get the doctor on call to check me over. so she got the doctor on call to see me. he said he'll put me in the hospital and i started crying and said that I feel that doctors think that im lying and that im not in pain.. but i am in pain. and he said "i know sweetie, dont cry." and he took my hand and brushed my hair back and said "ill take care of you, ill figure out what is wrong, k" and he looked me in the eyes while saying that and i said ok and thank you. then when i got to my room i kept smelling vinegar.. im like what the heck? it was on my hands.. so i washed them with soap and water.. little bit later smelled it again.. so i paged the nurse and the nurse aide came down and smelled them and said she smelled it too.. she said it was werid. so she got me wet ones to try and clean them off. well then i was crying while talking with my mom cause i was in pain and that nurse at that time wouldn't call the doctor to tell him. well i started smelling vinegar again.. it was from my tears.. so i hung up with my mom and called the nurse. it was a different nurse. I asked "do i have to suffer with this pain til my next shot?" and she said "i can call dr. chambers if you like." then i mentioned the vinegar thing. so she called him and he got me a strong narcotic and he said that some people can get that vinegar smell when they have to much acid in there blood stream.. so if i sweat tonight like i did last night im goign to smell like vinegar..but he was goign to do some research and see if anything else can cause that. oh and i had a bladder infection on thursday but when they tested me yesterday i dont have one now. So I dont know what is going on right now.. but Ill keep you all in touch when I do know what's wrong. oh and the first iv they gave me didn't work.. it worked for the first time then the second time she went to put saline salution to flush the iv before the pain killer i freaking jumped a mile. it hurt like hell.. so she had to put a new one in. I was released Saturday morning. I went home and stayed in bed most of the day. I was in so much pain it wasn't funny. Well then sunday morning I thought the pain I had before was bad, it was nothing compared to the pain I felt sunday morning. I went to the Emergency room at about 7:45am. Dr. Shoemacker was my doctor, he was suppose to get off at 8 but he stayed to take care of me. I was crying so hard cause i was in so much pain. He has me pee in a cup and had them culture it. Then he told me that he wanted to do an x-ray of my bowels because when you get bound up it can hurt really bad so he wanted to make sure that wasn't the reason I was having all this pain. Well he came in the x-ray office and looked at the x-rays just as they got done and then came into the xray room and told me that I do have a good bit of stool in the bowel BUT he didn't feel that it was enough to make me feel SO much pain. So he walked me back to my er room and sat down and expained that he is going to shotgun this.. he said I do have blood still in the urine. He said he is going to put me on antibotics for a bladder infection and to take this antibotic no matter what any other doctor tells me and told me to stay on the pain killers and to push the fluids. He feels I am still dealing with Kidney Stones. That was his opinion. He told me to follow up with Dr. Chambers or Dr. Joe in the morning. Well I thanked him and went home. I then called my mom and told her I didn't think I had enough money for my meds since I had used it all on cabs this morning. So she said she would take me to the drug store in an hour. She even stopped at Walmart at got me cat food, cat litter, and more cranberry apple juice that I had been drinking. Well the next day Monday I got in in the morning to see Dr. Chambers. He did a urine culture right away and came in the room and told me there is still blood in the urine and he was sending me to a urologist. He said he thought I was still dealing with kidney stones too and said it was time for a second opionion. So I told him I had seen Dr. Rademacher in the past and he asked if I liked him and I said Yes. So he asked his nurse to make an appointment hopefully today for a second opionion. So he left the room and the nurse came in and said that she was goign to call. SO she called and she asked about getting in today to see Dr. Rademacher and they told her that he was doing surgery all day and she asked if he could see me after the surgeries and I guess they said no. So I noticed on the paper that she wrote about seeing Dr. Price today and was going to write the time and I said "he doesn't want me seeing him" and she asked the nurse to hold on a second and I told her I saw him on wednesday and we want a second opionion. So she told the receptionist that they wanted a second opionion I guess and with Dr. Rademacher. So she got me an appointment at 10:40 with Dr. Rademacher the next day (tuesday). I then went home and around 8pm called a friend of mine asking her if she could take me to my dr. appointment the next day cause my mom didn't want to have to miss another day of work just in case they did surgery one morning. So Joelle said sure and took me I paid her gas money. Dr. Rademacher told me that I did have a Kidney Stone on that First CT scan they did and talked to me about my options and one of them was for surgery. He said best option would be the surgery to see if a stone is stuck up in my right ueter, which i thought that tube was called a urethea but its not.. its called ureter. He told me though there is a chance they will find NOTHING. and I told him I understood. But I'd like the surgery so if I do have a kidney stone then we will know what my pain is from.. if not then I know I need to look for something else. So he said he would do surgery on me that day around 4 or 5 after his clinic appointments. I told him thank you. He said that we could go shopping and then come back around 2:30 and come to the Day Surgery building. So Joelle and I went shopping at the mall.. but I started to get more and more pain. And the doctor told me not to eat or drink anything and not to take any meds. So I used Joelle's cell phone and called and talked to his nurse Dee-Dee and explained that the pain was getting worse and asked if i could come in earlier. She went to talk to Dr. Rademacher then he came on the phone and talked to me. He said to come in to the clinic and they would take me over to the Day Surgery building. So Joelle drove me back to the clinic in Lacrosse.. we were in onalaska (15 minutes away). I told her she could just drop me off, that she didn't have to get Xavier in and out of the car in the cold, (xavier is her son) so she dropped me off and I told her I would call her after the surgery. It was 12:45 when I got up to the urology floor and 1 when I got in my Day Surgery room. The nurse came in and asked me questions like they always do and then said she'll be right back with the iv stuff. I told her I've had alot of iv's in the last two weeks and she smiled and said she would be giving me numbing stuff so it shouldn't hurt. I said I liked the numbing stuff. Well she moved over to me right arm because the left one had most of the iv's in last week. She said she would try the one on my right wrist.. she said she couldn't see my veins very well but she could feel it and its a good vein from the feel. So she numbed it and then as she was trying to put the iv in It was hurting. She kept trying and after three tries gave up on that spot. She apologized and I said its okay. She then had to leave the room to get more numbing stuff and another iv thing. She returned, then a girl comes in for labs. So then Andy, the nurse, said she was goign to put the next one in my hand, and i told her about the problem they had with my left hand and she said she understood but those were the only veins she could see. She numbed the spot on my hand and then goes to put the iv in. I didn't feel a thing. Then the lab girl takes my left arm and starts to poke around at it. Andy taps up the iv while the lab girl goes to draw blood. She couldn't get it on the first try. Andy says that she thinks Im a bit dehydrated and says she feels bad because of all the poking Ive had lately. Then the girl taking Labs said that the spot she is going to take from now will sting becuase of its location but it looks like a good location. So Andy takes my right hand and tells me I can squeeze it as hard as I want. So as the lab girl poked me and was taking my blood i squeezed Andy's hand. She laughs and says "geez girl that's nothing, you're not hurting me at all" I smiled and laughed with her. Then after the lab girl was done they joked and said they were goign to call me two timer tiffanie. cause it took two times on each to get it. Then the lab girl left and Andy said she'd be right back with pain killer. Andy came back and explained to me about what was going to happen while she was giving me demoral in the iv. She said the antithesologist would be in soon to ask me about the same questions she had asked me and then around 4 or 5 I would be taken upstairs for surgery. She then told me I could have demoral every hour. So I told her just to keep bringing it to me every hour. She said she remembered when she was having surgery and she was in pain she told them not even to ask her.. just to bring it to her every four hours when it was due. well when it came to the third shot I asked her "does demoral make people tired?" and she said "yeah usually it does" and I said "its not making me tired" and she laughed and said "i can see that" then i told her how in ER that one time they gave me a big dose of it and i was woosy but after about ten minutes it wore off and she joked with me and talked me for a bit then left. Then a little before 5 a guy comes in my room and said he is taking me upstairs and i put my laptop away and then up we went.. a few minutes later the doctor came into my room upstairs and explained again what he was doing and that I would go home after and then on Friday he would take the stent out. Then a few minutes after he left my room my mom finally showed up and she asked when I go in and i told her anytime and we talked for a few minutes and then they came in to take me and we hugged and said I love you and then I was takin to the surgery room. I was put on that hard surgery table and then covered up. My left arm was put in this Blue foam thing and then they put the pulse/oxygen reader on my left hand and then told me to put my right arm to my side and then I felt coldness in my right arm which meant they were running the iv, so i asked them if they started it and they said yep and soon they would give me the "happy drugs" which I have a feeling they already gave it to me cause I started to feel weird and I think I asked them if they already gave it to me I dont remember what they said all i remember next was them putting the thing over my face and telling me to take breaths in and out in and out.. and then I was out and waking up in recovery. I dont remember much about the recovery room except towards the end when they told me the doctor was keeping me over night and they would be taking me over to the third floor of the hospital in a few minutes. I then was takin to my room 300 bed 1. They couldn't push the bed in the room so they asked if I could walk and I said Ya i thought I could. But I dont remember how I got to the bed, but I remember being in the bed and then asking where my mom was and my stuff from the day surgery building. They said they thought my mom had it and they were trying to find my mom. They got me snuggled in the bed and took my vitals and i remember a few minutes later my mom came in but she didn't have my stuff. I was worried cause i had my laptop with me and didn't want to lose it abou 15 minutes later a nurse from the day surgery building brought me my stuff and i was releved. I can't remember if they doctor came and talked to me that night.. I think he did. yeah he did. He told me that he didn't find a stone but he said my ureter was inflammed.. he isn't sure what caused the inflammation, he thinks I might of had a stone that irritated it on its way out. I then told him I was suppose to have a gallbladder test the next day and I asked him if he still wanted me to have it and stuff and he said yes to go ahead with it and that I couldn't eat or drink after midnight. Well then the nurses told me all I could have was jello that night cause they didn't want to upset my stomach after surgery. My mom left around 8. Then a nurse came and told me my appointment was at 9:30 with dr. isaccison or however you spell his name. SO in the mornign I Kept swearing it was at 9 and had them check twice for me. anyways in the night I went to go to the restroom and my roommate had peed in my hat. so I buzzed for the nurse and she came in and dumped the urine from my roommate and then flushed the toliet and it broke and sprayed everywhere.. we laughed and she said that was weird, it was like the piping was unscrewed so she flushed it one more time and it still sprayed everywhere so she said we couldn't use that one and made me walk down the hall. I was peeing like lots of blood when I did pee and It hurt really bad after I peed. So the nurse walked me back to my room and went and got me another shot of demoral. Then later when I went pee again she knew I would hurt so she came back as I was peeing with a shot of demoral to give me. Then in the early morning the nurse told me Dr. Rademacher may not release me because of how much pain I was still having, but I was determined to be realeased.. we were having chrimstas that day. Dr. Rademacher came in my room around 7am and explained that he can't promise that having this stent and stuff in is going to be the cure for the pain but he hopes that was the reason for all my pain. He said that on wednesday I come in to have the stent removed and that Im going to be uncomfortable til the stent comes out and that I will more than liekly have to go to the bathroom alot and he said something about my liver enzymes but I dont remember what he said. My mom showed up at 8ish and I explained what he told me. She then asked what time my appointment was with the gasterologist and I said at 9:30am so they were going to release me at 9:15am. All I had to do was go to the 4th floor. We saw the gasterologist and he said a few things about the gallbladder and stuff and then said I would have the test on Tuesday at 830am. We thought I was having it that day but I guess not. So we didn't get out of that appointment til 11am. Then we headed to my mom and dads. Every since then.. today is Sunday, Christmas day. I have been suffering low grade fevers, vominting yesterday, pain all the time. every now and then I find a comfortable position and have no pain. Been staying at my moms and dads cause of the fevers. Still peeing blood and hurts really bad at the end of peeing and after peeing. The pain killer Percoset isn't working, says to take one pill.. Ive been taking two... still no relief. Sometimes it make me tired and helps me sleep. Ive been drinking a good bit except for yesterday. But ever since the surgery I wasn't having that upper right flank pain. it was just pain lower from the stent.. but last night I got hit with that right side flank pain for a bit.. then it moved to my back and then it was gone after about two hours. I told my mom maybe I was passing another stone or something. But I started crying when I got the pain and she said "are you getting a cold" and i said "no Im crying, I got that pain back" and a few minutes later she says "that's not going to make it better" and i said "i know, i just wish it would all just go away" and then she said "try eating something" so after watching 'I'll be home for christmas' I ate something and watched another movie with my mom and then she went to bed. I was tired but with the pain its hard to sleep. finally I got tired and fell asleep but only slept for two hours and here I am awake and typing all this out. Anyways.. Ill keep you updated. Merry Christmas all.
December 27,2005-
Well yesterday i had this sharp stinging pains in my bladder/pelvic area, i was throwing up and had diaherra. The right side flank pain had come back. So my doctor told me to come in to walk in or ER in lacrosse and he'll take the stent out. So my mom and I went to urgent care in LaCrosse, after waiting 20 minutes I went and asked the receptionist how long my wait would be and she said 2-3 hours. I told her I'll just go the emergency room. He said I could go to either one. And the pain was very annoying. Well I got a room in the ER and then Doctor came in explained the side effects or things that could go wrong and i signed a consent form. He took the stent out and I was in horrible pain.. I mean really really bad. He ordered 75mg of Demoral and some medicine to help the nausea and keep me from throwing up. After about a half an hour of crying my head off cause i hurt the demoral kicked in and helped me relax.. but the pain was still there. So he then decided to put me in the hospital cause of the pain and put an IV and I have a machine where I push this button and every ten minutes I can get a dose of 10mg of demoral. it helps a little but not much. So now Im sitting here at ten to 7 and no sign of my doctor. He has to be in Tomah today so he said he would see me very early in the morning and see about discharging or still keeping me in another day. But at 8:30sam I have a test for my gallbladder. They will be putting dye in my iv so that they can see the gallbalder i guess.. but then i was told them will put this other stuff in and if my gallbladder spits the stuff out or not. I dont remember which way is the bad way.. but if I get more right side flank pain during the test the doctor said that is a sign of a bad gallbladder. Well that's it for now.. Ill be updating later today of what is going on!
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