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Skriven 2014-11-04 10:16:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> We're still talking about several more weeks of full antibiotics.
 NB> That's really bad.  Are they going to keep you on IV
 NB> antibiotics for much longer...?

That was some issue. I must have reported on my battle with
the children doctors about switching to orals; well, as soon
as I won, they sprung me. Maybe I would have been released if
I had fussed earlier! Anyhow, now I've been sent away with no
antibiotics at all. I asked the discharge nurse just to make
sure, and that's the way it is.

 NB> I'm actually a little surprised they sprung you the
 NB> first time, given that scenario...

When I am not unhealthy, I am very healthy, and that probably
gives the docs much optimism and a false sense of the gravity
of the situation. After all, I rated my pain as 4-5 with waves
of 6-7 for a phenomenon where most patients report 8-10.

 ML> It is possible that the situation may subside to the degree
 ML> where they can go in and remove it laparascopically or in
 ML> fact not at all. I prefer the not at all.
 NB> I can understand preferring the not at all...
 NB> however, given that it's acted up this badly now,
 NB> I'd be inclined to get the little bugger out

I still prefer the not at all ...

 NB> Not having it there to burst out again seems to me to be
 NB> a wise thing...

But that makes sense, too. I have been told that if you are
an Australian planning on visiting Antarctica, you must have
proof that your appendix is gone before being allowed to go.
The Ian trip in spring '15 might make me think a bit about it.

 NB> along with a wonder if the thing can really heal up and
 NB> have no more leakage in the future...

The thing healed in 2 days, the abscess in 4. Whether to
full strength I don't know, but when I asked about activity,
including straining on going to the bathroom, the doc said
no problem.

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 ML> There was some pretty bad reflux from the week of stomach
 ML> crap, and I still have to think about swallowing, where the
 ML> stuff is going to go, and so on, but I presume it will
 ML> resolve itself soon. I don't dare tell them about it here,
 ML> or they might not let me go, and that would be a bummer.
 NB> Hopefully it is resolving properly by now

We'll see! Today, not to brag or give TMI (ok, yes give TMI)
I had my first nonliquid poops today in over 3 weeks.

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 NB> That sounds like it might be related to Afib...
 ML> Nup. Only similarity is that it's fast heartbeat; the
 ML> causes and effects are different.
 NB> Ah.  So it's a fast heartbeat, but without the irregularities...?

Tachycardia (a fancy medical term for fast heartbeat), as
I understand, can be categorized by its origin and its speed.

Fibrillation means heartbeat of over 100, whereas flutter
means over 200.

Atrial (A-) and ventricular (V-) refer to the origins of
the dysrhythmia, the atria being the top chambers of the
heart and the ventricles being the bottom ones.

It is said that the ventricular versions are more serious
than the atrial ones, and of course the faster the beat the
worse.

The terminology has had an amusing effect, as my brother has
some heart palpitations, which he attributes much importance
to, so he's had fairly extensive workups, which led to a
diagnosis of A-tach, which turns out to be the least dangerous
of the tachycardias, not still something you want to have. So
we were discussing this, and I said he shouldn't worry, such
arrhythmias are common and usually harmless, so he said, you
don't have them, what do you know. I admitted that for the
last 40+ years I have had V-tach, which is somewhat more
worrisome but doesn't particularly worry me. This sort of
shut him up, but now he's referring to his condition as
SVT (supraventricular tach), which though pretty much the
same thing has a more impressive sound.

Peachy keen collins
category: booze, airline
servings: 1

h - the infusion
4 peaches, not overripe, sliced
750 ml London dry gin
h - the cocktail
1 1/2 oz peach gin
1/2 oz simple syrup
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice

Steep peaches in gin for 48 hr. Strain.

Add cocktail ingredients to ice-filled collins glass.
Shake and top with soda to taste. Garnish with fresh
peach slice and mint sprigs.

George Costa, Pub & Kitchen, Philadelphia
US Airways Magazine 6/2013

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