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Skriven 2014-10-28 12:34:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: the wifi works here 1
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-26-14  20:15 <=-

 NB>> Good thing the wi-fi worked... ;)
 ML> And continues to work.

That, too...  At least you can stay in touch.  :)  Getting a private
room out of it this time was a good thing, too... especially since it
turned out you didn't actually have the infection...  Used to make sure
MJ always got a private room, just by reminding them in ER that she had
a history of ORSA... didn't even have to be active...

 ML>> So I'm here with a just-breached appendix (not gall
 NB>> So that ended up being treatable by just antibiotics after all...?
 NB>> By the time you get this, you may have already explained to someone
 NB>> else the difference between a just-breached and a ruptured appendix,
 NB>> but I'm curious about that, too.  :)
 ML> There's no difference. Once it's bust, the poison is out.
 ML> Another relatively kind term is "perforated," but it's
 ML> the same old.

Yeah, now I've seen all the explanations... so, all the same, just that
they now treat it somewhat differently... and in your case, the mess was
too well established to safely operate...  That's Scary!
 
 ML>> I refused morphine until a sincere-sounding
 ML>> resident encouraged me to agree to it, so I took a 2 mg
 ML>> hit, enough to give me nausea but not enough to really
 ML>> do much for the pain. Have refused further blandishments.
 NB>> Seems sensible to me.  Morphine doesn't work for everybody, no matter
 NB>> how sincere the residents and nurses are... ;)
 ML> They gave me oxycodone, a scrip for 10, of which I used 2.
 ML> Then back in the hospital I had a bout of pain bad enough
 ML> to make me ask for one. This has all the bad effects of
 ML> morphine but actually sort of works after a long delay.

At least it works....?  ;)  Pain meds are strange things... Only thing
that seems to work for me is straight codeine... analgesics don't touch
pain, they tend to give me dizziness, and the NSAIDS also make me
bleed... I was taking Tylenol #4 for a while, but the tylenol in it was
giving me problems... 
 
 ML>> I am NPO just in case they decide to cut me open, and
 ML>> even hospital food is beginning to smell okay.
 NB>> How soon did they let you finally have food...?

 ML> Two days. But then I ended up not being able to tolerate
 ML> food and went a week without any.

Are you finally tolerating food again...?  And, a corollary, your
intestines are letting it through again...?

ttyl           neb

... "This chicken has no beak," said Tom impeccably.

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