Fated Strife

Well it’s been pretty much uneventful since my last post.

I saw Star Trek: First Contact the other day on the Sci-fi channel, I thought it was a pretty good movie, though I’m particularly enjoying the older shows/movies a bit more. If it’s got Dr. “Bones” McCoy in it, then its good.
I also saw A Scanner Darkly, it was interesting, I enjoyed the style it was made in. I’d like to find a copy to add to my collection.

I got a message from Angel on Saturday but we didn’t get to talk and I guess he wasn’t able to get on today.

My breakouts on my legs and feet seem to have subsided for the most part, the doctor placed me on 2 new meds to try to help with the itching as I had some good scratch marks all over my legs. One was Triamcinolone acetonide lotion to use on my legs to reduce inflammation and such. The other being Hydroxyzine(Vistaril), it is an H1 receptor antagonist antihistamine. Thus it would reducing the itching and such, but it also offers itself as an antiemetic (so it could help with my nausea), anxiolytic (reduces anxiety), and also shows weak analgesic properties. So hopefully this will help some at least to where I don’t want to itch so much.

My back has been in quite a bit of pain the past few days, today was pretty bad at some times, especially in the area where the spine and hips meet. I’m really hoping we can find something that can keep the pain under control when it does this (as my Tramadol does nothing for it) or something to just get it to not bother me at all. Wishful thinking I guess.

My mind has went blank now so I guess this concludes another post.. Until next time!

Also, thank you to those who participated in the polls I have mentioned in the past few posts.

Tags: a scanner darkly, Angel, back_pain, bones, doctor, dr. mccoy, itching, movie, movies, nausea, pain, star trek, steroid, tramadol, vistaril, vomiting

Well, there’s not been much going on this week. I got to talk to Angel for around a hour or so on Tuesday which was nice. I’ll finally be flying out there in 26 days, I can’t wait.

I got one of those horrible unresponsive to abortive medicine migraines Tuesday and it went on through Wednesday which finally made me have to to go to the ER. They had written down nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea instead of nausea, vomiting, migraine on my chart which is one of the reasons I think I had to wait quite a bit more time to see the doctor (well nurse practitioner in my case). After finding out that I was there for the migraine rather than the stomach crap going around she apologized and such. There was some woman in there with her lady friend who apparently was angry about having to wait 25 minutes on her friend’s “nausea shot” so she called up some doctor at the hospital and was complaining about it (think she called a few people). Not sure what ever became of them. Got my dilaudid and promethazine shot and it helped with the staggering pain.

Unfortunately, the late trip from the hospital and the fact I had to leave my car there and all made me miss my physical therapy appointment I had Thursday but we got it rescheduled for the 16th, I also happen to have a dentist appointment that morning, so I figure its going to be a busy day.

I procured the new Guyver Anime disc 2 boxed set thing today. I usually put the subtitles on for dvds and such and noticed that the subtitles for it do not match up that great with what they’re saying in english on there.

I also decided to start up the Guyverpedia, something I’ve wanted to do for many years now. Hopefully this time it’ll pick up since there seems to be more of a following of the Guyver series now. So click the link and start adding content!

I guess that’s all for now, I gotta get up to talk to Angel in the morning and might plant some stuff. I’ve got to pick up some stuff for my new shelf too (pictures to come soon).

Tags: amazon, Angel, diarrhea, dilaudid, guyver, migraine, migraines, nausea, nurse_practitioner, physical_therapy, promethazine, stomach, vomiting

Here are the pictures from my ER visit back on March 30th.

Apparently I didn’t blog about that trip.
On the 29th (yes my birthday) I had started vomiting some dark brown gunk (coffee ground emesis = old blood) it had subsided after a while so went on to sleep since I had the endoscopy coming up the next week. I had to go to my primary doctor’s office Friday (30th) and had started vomiting there again, the bright red blood along with the coffee ground stuff was coming back up so called Sullivan’s office. He was out of town that week and my nurse practitioner I see was off that day so the nurse checked with one of the other NPs there. They called back shortly thereafter telling me to call 911 or go to the ER.

I get to the ER, got taken back to acute care area had blood transfusion band put on, blood taken for lab work and cross matching and an IV put in. I was given IV Nexium, Ondansetron, some steroid and Bentyl. After they spent 15 minutes trying to find the top part of my chart I was taken to xray and had abdominal xrays taken. This revealed what appeared to be a bowel obstruction, the ER doctor I had on my case told me I needed to be admitted but he was going to get someone from my group there to check it out. I was given dilaudid at this time.

Eventually a doctor from my group showed up and said that it appeared to be a pocket of air in my intestines and that I would most likely not need to be admitted. He said he was going to call Sullivan’s office to see what the other doctor there said since Sullivan was out of town. I was given 1000ml of saline to be infused over 1 hour. Given more dilaudid, around 3:30 my mom was finally able to get to the hospital as she was in Johnson City having their car worked on. The doctor told me that since it just appeared to be air and that I wasn’t vomiting anymore that it was up to me if I wanted to be admitted, I chose not to and would see Bobbie the following Monday. From there the story continues in the post linked above.

Tags: blood_transfusion, coffee_ground_emesis, dilaudid, endoscopy, nexium, ondansetron, vomiting