Just T
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Post by Just T on Jul 30, 2022 20:59:05 GMT
They should have admitted her. 100% agree. You don't send home someone who is almost or close to septic and can't keep fluids down as well as with an enlarged liver. I don't get this either. I have known people who were septic, and they were both not well...as in near death. It is shocking to me that a person who has been vomiting non stop for 3 weeks and is "near septic" was just sent home. Shocked.
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Post by mom on Jul 30, 2022 21:07:09 GMT
They should have admitted her. She just texted “Yes, thanks!! She'll have to go back to the ER if she vomits today. We have to follow up about her liver... Trying not to worry + working on getting her on Medicaid with the hospital's help. Thanks. 😘😘” Zee pantsonfire Well since she isn't back at the ER today from vomiting more, maybe its starting to resolve itself.
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Post by scrappinmama on Jul 30, 2022 21:25:12 GMT
I have been septic and it's the sickest I have been. I cannot believe they sent her home! People die from sepsis if left untreated. I hope she feels better soon. If there isn't significant improvement, I would be back at that E.R.
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Post by zella on Jul 30, 2022 22:01:10 GMT
As both a mom and an RN I 1000% agree she should have been admitted. In fact I think that's malpractice, sending her home. However the quality of hospitals in Florida varies hugely. I spent one night in our local hospital and you couldn't PAY me enough to go back there. The large city hospital that I was wary of was very good. The hospital where BB lives is awful. I know this from multiple sources. And most of the doctors there are dreadful too. I even have to travel over an hour to another city for certain care. Lots of doctors, some excellent ones, TONS of bad ones. It's weird. I suspect if DD had gone to a good hospital she'd have been admitted no question. My daughter's been admitted with way fewer problems. I didn't know the inequities in health care until I had lived here for a while. It's bizarre and frustrating. I will say that even in Seattle there was one hospital I wouldn't go to due to poor patient care and bad doctors. And on our side of the sound the hospitals were terrible. As bad as the one here. So there's good and bad everywhere. It's just more extreme in Florida.
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Post by nursema on Jul 30, 2022 22:12:20 GMT
As both a mom and an RN I 1000% agree she should have been admitted. In fact I think that's malpractice, sending her home. However the quality of hospitals in Florida varies hugely. I spent one night in our local hospital and you couldn't PAY me enough to go back there. The large city hospital that I was wary of was very good. The hospital where BB lives is awful. I know this from multiple sources. And most of the doctors there are dreadful too. I even have to travel over an hour to another city for certain care. Lots of doctors, some excellent ones, TONS of bad ones. It's weird. I suspect if DD had gone to a good hospital she'd have been admitted no question. My daughter's been admitted with way fewer problems. I didn't know the inequities in health care until I had lived here for a while. It's bizarre and frustrating. I will say that even in Seattle there was one hospital I wouldn't go to due to poor patient care and bad doctors. And on our side of the sound the hospitals were terrible. As bad as the one here. So there's good and bad everywhere. It's just more extreme in Florida. This absolutely breaks my heart. I think I’ll up my prayer game on this one. Thanks to everyone who put in the time and effort to let her know how concerning this is to so many and getting an update. I am hoping she’s admitted somewhere very soon and not discharged until there are some solid answers. This is so troubling, they deserve better care than this!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Post by milocat on Jul 30, 2022 23:51:12 GMT
They should have admitted her. She just texted “Yes, thanks!! She'll have to go back to the ER if she vomits today. We have to follow up about her liver... Trying not to worry + working on getting her on Medicaid with the hospital's help. Thanks. 😘😘” Zeepantsonfire Working on getting her on Medicaid, does that mean she has no health coverage? Would that be why she wasn't admitted or just a crappy hospital/doctors like Zella said? Scary, hopefully she will be on the mend soon.
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Post by wordfish on Jul 31, 2022 0:15:37 GMT
Huh. Borderline septic but they sent her home on oral meds, but she hasn't been keeping things down?
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Post by Scrapper100 on Jul 31, 2022 0:22:05 GMT
She just texted “Yes, thanks!! She'll have to go back to the ER if she vomits today. We have to follow up about her liver... Trying not to worry + working on getting her on Medicaid with the hospital's help. Thanks. 😘😘” Zeepantsonfire Working on getting her on Medicaid, does that mean she has no health coverage? Would that be why she wasn't admitted or just a crappy hospital/doctors like Zella said? Scary, hopefully she will be on the mend soon. She has said this in the past.
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Post by birukitty on Jul 31, 2022 0:23:56 GMT
She just texted “Yes, thanks!! She'll have to go back to the ER if she vomits today. We have to follow up about her liver... Trying not to worry + working on getting her on Medicaid with the hospital's help. Thanks. 😘😘” Zee pantsonfire Working on getting her on Medicaid, does that mean she has no health coverage? Would that be why she wasn't admitted or just a crappy hospital/doctors like Zella said? Scary, hopefully she will be on the mend soon. I strongly suspect that's the case. No health care coverage so this hopital sent this very sick girl home. One more reason I hate this country. It's criminal what they've done!
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Post by kokomo37 on Jul 31, 2022 0:40:37 GMT
It’s hard to believe your medical situation in the USA . With someone so sick, how can the dr’s and hospital turn their backs. I would be very tempted to say she did vomit again and return to emerg. Then maybe they will admit her and give her IV meds and fluids so that she can recover at a faster pace. Without it could be many weeks before she regains her strength and mental well being
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Post by wordfish on Jul 31, 2022 0:48:02 GMT
I strongly suspect that's the case. No health care coverage so this hopital sent this very sick girl home. One more reason I hate this country. It's criminal what they've done! It is literally against federal law to do that for a Medicare-participating hospital. You cannot refuse to screen and treat someone who presents to an ED with a serious medical condition.
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Post by wordfish on Jul 31, 2022 0:48:56 GMT
It’s hard to believe your medical situation in the USA . With someone so sick, how can the dr’s and hospital turn their backs. I would be very tempted to say she did vomit again and return to emerg. Then maybe they will admit her and give her IV meds and fluids so that she can recover at a faster pace. Without it could be many weeks before she regains her strength and mental well being Again--it's literally against federal law to do that.
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Post by mcjunkin on Jul 31, 2022 2:08:26 GMT
I strongly suspect that's the case. No health care coverage so this hopital sent this very sick girl home. One more reason I hate this country. It's criminal what they've done! It is literally against federal law to do that for a Medicare-participating hospital. You cannot refuse to screen and treat someone who presents to an ED with a serious medical condition. This times 1000. Yes, for ongoing treatment, maybe an issue with no coverage. But Emergency Rooms will treat/stabilize immediate situations like sepsis, severe dehydration, and a liver problem significant enough to be causing a rash regardless of insurance/ability to pay. They have donors and sponsors for just such cases. Either BB misunderstands and assumes it is worse than it actually is, or DD left AMA. And DD is just now applying for medicaid? With all of her mental health needs that should have been done long before now. And probably has been suggested on this board before, considering their financial situation. I don’t want to sound uncaring or harsh. I k ow that there are hospitals that suck. But a lot of these stories lately sound overblown or someone is confused. If DD is truly that sick, get her to whatever hospital you deem the good one ASAP. You are tech savvy enough to Uber the distance to Tampa or wherever, because you say you are unable to drive long distances. Finances are tough, but you talked about making a cheesecake the other day. If you can afford ingredients for that, you can afford an Uber. Or call an ambulance and insist on being taken to the better hospital.
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Post by nurseypants on Jul 31, 2022 2:13:34 GMT
Borderline septic Discharged on PO meds
Nope.
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Post by tinydogmafia on Jul 31, 2022 3:32:48 GMT
I'm so glad to see other people finally calling all of BB's phony medical stories out. I've been trying to politely call her out on this shit for ages. I'm an ICU nurse not far from where she lives. People can say whatever they want about Florida hospitals, no hospital is going to discharge someone "Borderline " septic on PO meds. Borderline septic is not a thing. You either have sepsis or you don't. Vomiting for 18 days would leave you in one hell of an electrolyte imbalance, requiring days of rehydration and restoration of said electrolytes by IV. BB is running yet another scam. Now her daughter has no Medicaid, and of course the evil hospital must have kicked out this destitute woman, preventing her from receiving the care she needs. Come on now. The hospital cannot refuse treatment in that way. How is it that BB and her immediate family find themselves in these repeated medical predicaments? Next she will come back and try to explain how she works as a nanny with an O2 sat in the 70's.... I'm done allowing BB a free pass. She profited off the kindness of many peas here. I hate to see long time, well loved peas continue to be used by her. It breaks my heart, actually.
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Post by pantsonfire on Jul 31, 2022 5:13:45 GMT
I'm so glad to see other people finally calling all of BB's phony medical stories out. I've been trying to politely call her out on this shit for ages. I'm an ICU nurse not far from where she lives. People can say whatever they want about Florida hospitals, no hospital is going to discharge someone "Borderline " septic on PO meds. Borderline septic is not a thing. You either have sepsis or you don't. Vomiting for 18 days would leave you in one hell of an electrolyte imbalance, requiring days of rehydration and restoration of said electrolytes by IV. BB is running yet another scam. Now her daughter has no Medicaid, and of course the evil hospital must have kicked out this destitute woman, preventing her from receiving the care she needs. Come on now. The hospital cannot refuse treatment in that way. How is it that BB and her immediate family find themselves in these repeated medical predicaments? Next she will come back and try to explain how she works as a nanny with an O2 sat in the 70's.... I'm done allowing BB a free pass. She profited off the kindness of many peas here. I hate to see long time, well loved peas continue to be used by her. It breaks my heart, actually. No hospital will DC a person who is very sick UNLESS that person declines treatment. You all know ds' back story. We have health insurance and dh has a solid income. Even with all that ds was so extremely medically fragile that he was constantly in the hospital. And at $250 co-pays plus meds plus other OOP expenses that the insurance plan we had at the time did bot cover because Children's was out of network, we were in a position of paying thousands of dollars a month. One month we spent almost $3500 on medical care WITH insurance. We couldn't cover rent. We are extremely blessed to have family who can afford to help and they did. By giving us $1600 for our rent. We were faced with a NICU bill of over $80k because it wasn't in network. We had accumulated over $200k in medical debt just for ds alone. Again WITH insurance. Now take a person who has no coverage and is barely making ends meet. Do you think they would gladly be willing to pay $30k + in medical debt? He'll of a lot more if in the ICU. My ICU stay was hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do you know how long it took us to pay of $200k+ in debt with a solid well paying career paycheck and selling items? 8 year. 8 long fucking years. Do you have any clue how that debt would out a person already struggling down even further into the hole? They would never recover from it. We have no idea if her and her dd decided to bounce or not. So to judge sucks. Yet again the peas are doing what the peas do best... Tearing down a person who is already dealing with a lot of fucking shit. Oh and what the fuck!! does cheesecake have to do with Uber? Around here a 30 mile drive can cost $60! That is like $50 more than making a God damn cheesecake. Fuck. This place sucks. BB I hope all the time that you can find a way out of the hole you are in because I know how bad it is. I know how fucking scary it is.
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Post by gar on Jul 31, 2022 7:50:27 GMT
Yet again the peas are doing what the peas do best... One person has voiced their opinion, another one or two with medical knowledge have questioned the info given... I don't see that as 'tearing someone down'. I think if someone posted something that sounded off in your area of expertise you might question that. People are allowed to wonder and question things if they want to.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 31, 2022 10:15:11 GMT
I'm so glad to see other people finally calling all of BB's phony medical stories out. I've been trying to politely call her out on this shit for ages. I'm an ICU nurse not far from where she lives. People can say whatever they want about Florida hospitals, no hospital is going to discharge someone "Borderline " septic on PO meds. Borderline septic is not a thing. You either have sepsis or you don't. Vomiting for 18 days would leave you in one hell of an electrolyte imbalance, requiring days of rehydration and restoration of said electrolytes by IV. BB is running yet another scam. Now her daughter has no Medicaid, and of course the evil hospital must have kicked out this destitute woman, preventing her from receiving the care she needs. Come on now. The hospital cannot refuse treatment in that way. How is it that BB and her immediate family find themselves in these repeated medical predicaments? Next she will come back and try to explain how she works as a nanny with an O2 sat in the 70's.... I'm done allowing BB a free pass. She profited off the kindness of many peas here. I hate to see long time, well loved peas continue to be used by her. It breaks my heart, actually. No hospital will DC a person who is very sick UNLESS that person declines treatment. You all know ds' back story. We have health insurance and dh has a solid income. Even with all that ds was so extremely medically fragile that he was constantly in the hospital. And at $250 co-pays plus meds plus other OOP expenses that the insurance plan we had at the time did bot cover because Children's was out of network, we were in a position of paying thousands of dollars a month. One month we spent almost $3500 on medical care WITH insurance. We couldn't cover rent. We are extremely blessed to have family who can afford to help and they did. By giving us $1600 for our rent. We were faced with a NICU bill of over $80k because it wasn't in network. We had accumulated over $200k in medical debt just for ds alone. Again WITH insurance. Now take a person who has no coverage and is barely making ends meet. Do you think they would gladly be willing to pay $30k + in medical debt? He'll of a lot more if in the ICU. My ICU stay was hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do you know how long it took us to pay of $200k+ in debt with a solid well paying career paycheck and selling items? 8 year. 8 long fucking years. Do you have any clue how that debt would out a person already struggling down even further into the hole? They would never recover from it. We have no idea if her and her dd decided to bounce or not. So to judge sucks. Yet again the peas are doing what the peas do best... Tearing down a person who is already dealing with a lot of fucking shit. Oh and what the fuck!! does cheesecake have to do with Uber? Around here a 30 mile drive can cost $60! That is like $50 more than making a God damn cheesecake. Fuck. This place sucks. BB I hope all the time that you can find a way out of the hole you are in because I know how bad it is. I know how fucking scary it is. This is how I see it as well. We say to call an ambulance. To admit her. But the reality is that BB hasn’t worked in weeks. She’s recovering from Covid as well. Dealing with medical issues is exhausting. She is hurting financially to a point where most of us can’t comprehend. If she's trying to take advantage of us, she’s playing the long game. She’s been around here for years. IMO, BB is exhausted. She’s dealing with her own medical issues, her DD’s medical issues (including those before Covid), grief, and finances. She’s so used to feeling ill that she either minimizes symptoms or builds them up because she doesn’t get help for what is already intolerable. And it all just spirals from there. There isn’t much that we can do to help out this situation. But we can listen with a sympathetic ear and encourage her to take action where she is able.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2022 12:07:48 GMT
Hugs! I know how much you have on your plate (and your heart)! You guys just can't catch a break! <3. Take a breath and try to handle just one thing at a time (hard to do when it is all coming at you at once, I know!). Feel free to message me if you just need a non judgmental listening ear.
******************************************** And I totally agree that some of the comments were unnecessarily harsh and judgmental. It is one thing to be concerned, but around here it is not always communicated well or kindly. She is doing the best she can while grieving, figuring out finances, her own health issues and probably many other things we have no idea about. Bashing her is not helpful or necessary.
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Post by mcjunkin on Jul 31, 2022 12:28:17 GMT
I really am not trying to bash.
I know first hand what devastating medical situations can do to ones financial and mental well being.
The cheesecake? Indicates ability to have a little "petty cash" if you will. As well as buying cat food and all the kitty litter they must use. I understand and believe her, that they may not have enough to cover big expenses, but, look, the reality of the situation is this: If her daughter is really this sick (and she may be), then someone who can buy snack groceries and pet food, and make countless vet trips (even if the visits are free, you still have gone back and forth, expending energy and taking time off work, no less) under the duress she has been in, can do what it takes to get this very ill human some immediate help.
These stories lately just have not added up. I don't think it is bashing to legitamately question some of it, as the peas have been very very supportive of her. I offered suggestions that are feasible to get help for her daughter. Another pea, who, fair enough, is questioning the stories, still reached out and legit offered to go give BB a ride to the better hospital for herself when her O2 was supposed to be so low, if I am not mistaken.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2022 14:44:36 GMT
One thing I have experienced with my daughter on a milder scale than BB is going thru is a state of prolonged semi-crisis. When a person is in prolonged crisis you start to lose all sense of what an emergency is. It's a little like the boy who cried wolf and as a parent you try to do the right thing but you also have to make judgment calls sometimes. You do the best you can. You seek advice from a system that sometimes seems very, very broken. The kid has good days and bad days, maybe doesn't WANT to go to the ER because of their mental health. Her daughter is an adult so BB cannot force her. She can worry, she can vent, she can feel hopeless and blame her own medical problems. She can catastrophize and yes, she can even bake a cheesecake just to try to feel like maybe something is normal.
Anyway that's my spin on it. Ongoing crisis with no end in sight. It's rough. Humans can adjust to almost any circumstances but it will take a toll.
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Post by mcjunkin on Jul 31, 2022 15:03:05 GMT
One thing I have experienced with my daughter on a milder scale than BB is going thru is a state of prolonged semi-crisis. When a person is in prolonged crisis you start to lose all sense of what an emergency is. It's a little like the boy who cried wolf and as a parent you try to do the right thing but you also have to make judgment calls sometimes.Anyway that's my spin on it. Ongoing crisis with no end in sight. It's rough. Humans can adjust to almost any circumstances but it will take a toll. I honestly think that is what is happening here. So overwhelmed that everything seems impossible. More so this than anything malicious. Sometimes honesty can help cut through the fog of feeling helpless.
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Post by jenjie on Jul 31, 2022 15:35:23 GMT
One thing I have experienced with my daughter on a milder scale than BB is going thru is a state of prolonged semi-crisis. When a person is in prolonged crisis you start to lose all sense of what an emergency is. It's a little like the boy who cried wolf and as a parent you try to do the right thing but you also have to make judgment calls sometimes.Anyway that's my spin on it. Ongoing crisis with no end in sight. It's rough. Humans can adjust to almost any circumstances but it will take a toll. I honestly think that is what is happening here. So overwhelmed that everything seems impossible. More so this than anything malicious. Sometimes honesty can help cut through the fog of feeling helpless. I agree. Adding to this, I will say about the cheesecake… I think maybe cheesecake is her go-to. When she’s happy, she makes cheesecake. When she’s stressed, she makes cheesecake. We have had quite a few conversations about cheesecake. And hers is GOOD. She had made one the day I surprised her with a visit. It may be that making cheesecake gives her a little feeling of normalcy or control when her world is out of control and anything but normal. And the cats… I had two dogs die (unrelated) a week apart not long after dh passed. I wasn’t attached to these particular dogs like Bergdorf and dd are to the cats. But I still felt like, can’t I keep ANYTHING alive? It’s a really weird feeling and I understand why she wants to hold onto those pets, as they die it’s like more and more of life as you knew it is being stripped away.
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Post by wordfish on Jul 31, 2022 15:55:48 GMT
I don’t give a shit about the cheesecake but yeah about the sepsis. It’s a life threatening condition and is a medical emergency. I am also unaware of a condition called borderline sepsis, though there’s a list of symptoms and findings and I believe a certain number of them must be present to make a sepsis diagnosis. I believe some things must be present.
It’s definitely true that this quantity of disaster posts, which have gone on for many years, is unusual.
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Post by mcjunkin on Jul 31, 2022 16:35:47 GMT
I did not mean to stir up cheesecake-gate. My point was that even when it seems financially impossible to do anything, there really can be some oprions. I have no beef with the cooking of a cheesecake. Or the cats.
Sometimes it becomes so ingrained to say “I can’t because there is no money” when things are tough. Just trying to help her see she has options, even if they seem small. The price of an uber is a small grocery order or a couple bags of kitty litter, and could DD get help if she is inclined to receive it.
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Post by questioning on Jul 31, 2022 17:10:11 GMT
I did not mean to stir up cheesecake-gate. My point was that even when it seems financially impossible to do anything, there really can be some oprions. I have no beef with the cooking of a cheesecake. Or the cats. Sometimes it becomes so ingrained to say “I can’t because there is no money” when things are tough. Just trying to help her see she has options, even if they seem small. The price of an uber is a small grocery order or a couple bags of kitty litter, and could DD get help if she is inclined to receive it. I'm trying to believe you mean well, you are convinced you have a strategy she doesn't. Your comments sound close to thinking subsidized housing shouldn't have television. Or those on food-stamps shouldn't have an iphone. I hope you're never in a position where a bit of cheesecake gives you hope and comfort. Or even a MacDonald's sundae - would you criticize that expense too? If it happens, I hope no one decides you need to be taught a lesson about budgeting. This Pea has had a lot of rough times. Some others have as well. Why assume more? Maybe sharing here prevents her from lashing out at home?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2022 17:23:34 GMT
I'm so glad to see other people finally calling all of BB's phony medical stories out. I've been trying to politely call her out on this shit for ages. I'm an ICU nurse not far from where she lives. People can say whatever they want about Florida hospitals, no hospital is going to discharge someone "Borderline " septic on PO meds. Borderline septic is not a thing. You either have sepsis or you don't. Vomiting for 18 days would leave you in one hell of an electrolyte imbalance, requiring days of rehydration and restoration of said electrolytes by IV. BB is running yet another scam. Now her daughter has no Medicaid, and of course the evil hospital must have kicked out this destitute woman, preventing her from receiving the care she needs. Come on now. The hospital cannot refuse treatment in that way. How is it that BB and her immediate family find themselves in these repeated medical predicaments? Next she will come back and try to explain how she works as a nanny with an O2 sat in the 70's.... I'm done allowing BB a free pass. She profited off the kindness of many peas here. I hate to see long time, well loved peas continue to be used by her. It breaks my heart, actually. Stopping in QUICKLY to update. This is the most insulting, terrible thing I've read. What am I "scamming" for?? I don't have time to address this absolutely insane post. (And did my DH actually die? Or was I just making up his terminal cancer too? PLEASE. Ridiculous!!!!!) DD tried to apply for SSDI thru an attorney a few times. She was denied because when she met with the Judge, she came across as intelligent and well-spoken. So, it was a NO every time. Idiots. She's had bipolar since I can remember. It began with other issues and took years to finally diagnose. As for the Medicaid issue, FL has not expanded Medicaid (one of the few States that chose not to), so she gets nothing. We try every single year. My sister tried when she was here in December, because she was aghast that DD couldn't get any type of cheap policy. She signed her up for a FL Blue policy which turned out to be fraudulent. NOT ANOTHER 'SCAM' or 'LIE' from me!!!!! She paid $12/mo into this policy and waited 8 mos to finally meet with her PCP, and found out that it wasn't an actual policy. A woman next to us in the ER said the same thing. Big mistake to file for any insurance over the phone for FL people, apparently. As far as the hospitals zella was correct. Tampa hospitals (TGH, Moffitt, etc...) were WONDERFUL for DH and for me, but locally, they suck!!!! As far as DD's ER visit, they said that she was septic due to her high blood pressure reading (I'm sure she was nervous, never having been in a hospital for herself), and her urine being very dark. I'm all too familiar with actual sepsis. DH had it 4 or 5 times and was deathly ill. But that is what they put on her chart and then began investigating what was causing her severe vomiting, etc. The bladder infection was probably incorrect. Her urine was just very dark from so much vomiting & limited drinking. She DID vomit for nearly 3 weeks. She DID take sips of Gatorade, juice and water during that time, but it seemed like most of it would come back out. She WAS very weak, fatigued, dizzy, and tired. She slept a lot. The rash is probably from her new bipolar Rx, Lamotrigine. She wanted to come off of Depakote due to hair-thinning, so a new ARNP at her *Clinic* prescribed this change. She came down from the depakote and increased the lamotrigine over a month. The rash coincided with her getting Covid. Not sure if 1 had to do with the other, but she was completely on the lamotrigine when she got Covid and the rash began. It looks like this: www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321178 and it's all over her body and this morning appeared on the palms of her hands and began on her face. I spoke with my brother and he said that as long as it's not in her mucous membranes, it sounds like she's fighting it. She IS eating now and hasn't vomited in almost 48 hours. She's drinking too. She feels much better except for this rash. The rash could cause Stevens-Johnson Syndrome which could be deadly, so we're watching it. The hospital didn't seem too concerned. The rash isn't even LISTED in her discharge papers!!!!!!!! Only her supposed bladder infection and vomiting. We'll RUSH back in if the vomiting begins again or if I see the rash in her eyes or mouth. I did NOT begin that job. I can't be near a baby while I don't know if anything DD has is contagious, plus, I'd NEVER leave her at this point.
As far as my 02, I've said that it has improved. The highest reading (new batteries) has been in the 80's. I'm supposed to go for a chest x-ray to make sure my lungs are clear, per my pcp. I have a script. No referral for a pulminologist though! I see my pcp on Tuesday (had to cancel the last one because I had Paxlovid rebound of Covid). Everything I've ever said has been 100% true. I don't lie. Anyone close to me would know that........ I'm not looking for anything other than occasional advice or an ear, so there's no "scam" in sight. Pretty disgusting accusation and I regret posting a response to your gross post. I'll update zella or jenjie as I can. It's easier to respond via Facebook messenger than text on my crap phone for some reason..... Awaiting a newer phone from my sister this week....... Thank you to those who truly sounded like they cared. As a mom who has cared for my DD34 for decades, I'm more scared than I was during her darkest times with bipolar. Knowing that there's a chance that this rash could shut down her organs is upsetting to the core.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2022 17:33:08 GMT
I did not mean to stir up cheesecake-gate. My point was that even when it seems financially impossible to do anything, there really can be some oprions. I have no beef with the cooking of a cheesecake. Or the cats. Sometimes it becomes so ingrained to say “I can’t because there is no money” when things are tough. Just trying to help her see she has options, even if they seem small. The price of an uber is a small grocery order or a couple bags of kitty litter, and could DD get help if she is inclined to receive it. I'm trying to believe you mean well, you are convinced you have a strategy she doesn't. Your comments sound close to thinking subsidized housing shouldn't have television. Or those on food-stamps shouldn't have an iphone. I hope you're never in a position where a bit of cheesecake gives you hope and comfort. Or even a MacDonald's sundae - would you criticize that expense too? If it happens, I hope no one decides you need to be taught a lesson about budgeting. This Pea has had a lot of rough times. Some others have as well. Why assume more? Maybe sharing here prevents her from lashing out at home? We're on the list for Section 8 housing. FL is about 6 years waiting right now. We've been on the list for almost a year. Cable is limited-it's basic. I have a free gov't cellphone (thus the lack of getting/sending texts too well). My sister is sending me her old iPhone and I'll be using Ting as a carrier--basic. It's only $20/month for their service. I will NOT be using it like most people do. I use it for emergencies. Where did an Uber come to play? I've taken one ONCE when I was discharged from the ER in April & my sister arranged it. DD did take one when she picked up the kitten and her dad paid for it. We don't make a habit of going ANYWHERE if we can help it! Thank you, questioning, for being understanding. ONE MORE TIME: I DO NOT spend $$ on anything frivilous: no mani/pedis, no expensive cellphones or streaming service, etc. If I do bake, I use my Foodstamps for our food and it goes very far. I NEVER eat McDonald's or fast-food. It's GROSS and not something I'd ever desire. I like my own cooking/baking more. I just haven't been up to it, so I have Ensure and yogurt here. Any more questions, mcjunkin?? I AM on an extremely limited budget since DH passed away. I'm trying the best I can to just get by. Doing it on my own here is very hard, but I know how to live by JUST getting by. We don't do anything or go anywhere or purchase anything other than what's needed, and I'm able to pay my bills and (increased) rent by working hard and being self-aware. I'm pretty fucking proud that I've been able to do it for 8 months now.
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Post by birukitty on Jul 31, 2022 17:36:23 GMT
I strongly suspect that's the case. No health care coverage so this hopital sent this very sick girl home. One more reason I hate this country. It's criminal what they've done! It is literally against federal law to do that for a Medicare-participating hospital. You cannot refuse to screen and treat someone who presents to an ED with a serious medical condition. That is true, but it depends, it's a matter of degrees. Have insurance-great, you'll be treated with whatever tests are needed and treated until your condition is cured. Don't have insurance? You'll stay in the ER while they do the least expensive treatment to stabilize you and then send you on your way. It doesn't matter if your condition returns later. On the TV show ER they used to call it "Treat em and street em". And it happens every day in hospitals across the USA. Does it happen every single time to every single uninsured patient? I don't know. I've been very lucky in my life to always have medical insurance. But I wouldn't doubt it. This is one of the biggest reasons I dislike the USA. Every other first world country considers health care a basic human right and provides it to every single one of their citizens. We don't. And for those of you jumping down BB's throat, shame on you! Remember these words, "There but for the grace of God, go I"
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Jul 31, 2022 17:44:09 GMT
@bergdorfblonde , I'm glad to hear your daughter is doing somewhat better. The rash might indeed be due to her meds. (I had an experience similar to that a few years back.) How about you? Have you sufficiently recovered from COVID?
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