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grimsquirrel

Silver's Hospital Visit

Mar 27, 2010 16:21

Friday morning, March 26th, my wife awoke from a good night's sleep. I had taken the day off to be with her. Not long after she awoke she began to feel nauseous and she collapsed on the floor in agony. She was clutching her lower right abdomen, below the navel line. My immediate fear was appendicitis ( Read more... )

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Comments 7

saravalde March 27 2010, 23:26:29 UTC

Not good :(

grimsquirrel March 28 2010, 14:47:19 UTC

It could have been much worse! She's short some plumbing but that's why we've got redundancies, right? Appendix aside, great systems design eh?

Right now her biggest complaint aside from the post-op-pain is that she wants to get off all the meds and go home. I can live with that. :)

Comments from the Druid Healer Extraordinaire grimsquirrel March 28 2010, 21:28:11 UTC

Greg (aka Arranum of the Druid Mafia)
So good to speak to you on the phone Andrew today, my best wishes go forward with you for Silver's speedy recovery.

From a medical point of view, especially with surgery such as this they might want to keep her in for 1-2 days more until pain relief is under control and all obs are stable. While this is still considered surgical short stay 1-5 days, I wouldn't let patient go if pain was still a strong consideration and obs were all over the place.

Follow all doctor directions to the letter especially post opp pain, and AB if included. And I mean that.

I'll check the email box often, looks like you're in good hands with the nurse and Doc.

PS I know it from fact that all nurses have sweet teeth, the most flattering gift you can give is a box of fine chocolates :)

Stay Safe and Sane and Get well soon.
Greg

Let it be known that I love this man.

ruuhaha March 28 2010, 21:52:56 UTC

Glad to hear that she is ok, all my hugs and love go you and your family Bolsh.

grimsquirrel March 28 2010, 22:25:22 UTC

Thanks Ruu, good to have all the well-wishes from Aussieland. I love yawl tons and miss ya.

crazedcelt March 29 2010, 23:42:29 UTC

You didn't happen to get the tech and admitting nurse's names did you?

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

grimsquirrel March 30 2010, 00:03:03 UTC

No, sadly, I only got the names of the good techs and nurses. They will get a thank you card and a commendation to their superior.

The OB/GYN, Battaglia, had mentioned he had trouble with the ambulance crew before and will jump on them. He was not happy about how they treated your lovely daughter.

I may not know names but I do have dates/times and the ambulance number. I'll let the head of nursing deal with these assholes.

The good will get praised and the bad will be reprimanded.