That's it, I've snaped!

That sucks man. A coworkers friend of mines sister just died from that about 2 months ago. I do a little charity work for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the last 3 years. Well I understand ur in a lot of pain and i hope u feel better soon.

Best wishes
 
Isn't it funny how we keep hearing more and more of these hospital horror stories? I've only been in the ER 2 times in my life (i'll say civilian tho cause I have been in a military hospital's ER and well, thats a whole other ball game >.>) First time I reckon I was seen fairly quickly due to the fact that I was 1 and going into anaphalactic (sp?) shock from PCN. Second time, bout a year ago I broke a toe and was actually suprised at how fast I was taken care of. You tho, it'd not like something new... you would think they would have you admitted and be all over you taking tests and checking on you.

Don't know ya, but I hope you get better soon and it turns out to be nothing too serious.
 
Personally i think they are Nazis >.>
 
Myrrh said:
Well i'm noticing the colour chance in my flem pere and it looks like i do have a lung infection.
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>.< if it's turning yellow-green you'll probably be back in there within the hour getting reworked if you tell them that. Maybe. I dunno, maybe the oral meds weren't just for the throat.

Mishaela said:
Y'think {that they were trying to save money} Pere? o.o It sounded to me like they were being sortof overlooking on some things (such as not having a past X-Ray to compare and stuff)

Sorry if I'm wrong on this, but wouldn't a bronchoscopy be best for that sortof thing?

Change in sputum/mucus/phlegm/whateveryouwannacallthatstuff color would be a good sign something's wrong, but a TON of things can change the color of that =/ COPD, GERD, or even just a sinus infection...
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CF is incredibly expensive to treat. The US probably does a much better job with CF than canada because of that. There's not much use in big workup in a CF patient unless there are good signs of infection. You already know what they have. Heck, you probably already know the organism involved. Bronchoscopy would be useless-to-harmful. GERD is a clinical diagnosis. COPD is pretty much guaranteed in a CF patient, so no need to look for it too hard. Sinus infection is easy to diagnose clinically. As far as not having the xray, you don't need it. You have the radiologists' comments in his/her report. They're written with objectivity in mind. The words are as good a picture as the picture, sometimes better since the radiologist will translate the findings into "buzzwords" for any physician reading it. Of course, the idiot could have just told you that they have everything documented so that the xray wasn't needed, but oh well. Some doctors aren't good at that sort of thing.

But change in color from the normal CF sputum in the morning to yellow-green is a flareup. Will always be a flareup, will always be treated, and will always be a big deal. At least that's how it is here with someone with insurance. One of the biggest outcome-predictors in a CF patient is how well their lung infections are treated and managed. Medicine is annoyingly stereotypical, to be honest. Certain things light their asses very easily. Some things don't. CF flareups tend to, which is why you got a chest xray series for a sore throat. They don't want to miss a flareup on account of something that looks like a discharge.

Do you have access to those pneumatic chest-thumping vests? I tried one of those on last year. Almost knocked the air out of me.
 
CF is a blend of two or more gene mutations that alter the function of a chloride transporter in tissues like sweat glands, airways, and pancreas. The purpose of that transporter is to move water along with the salt to dilute secretions. Without that transporter, secretions get thick and they don't move as well. They form plugs, which leads to stasis, which leads to main features of CF:
Pancreatic insufficiency--if CF patients eat without taking enzymes with their meals, it goes right through, and it is NOT pretty.
Male infertility--mucus plugs in the pipelines
Lung infection--mucus plugs lead to stasis lead to infection of pseudomonas primarily. Pseudomonas is a ***** to treat.

The treatment is grueling. Good treatment is about an hour every morning and an hour every night. Enzymes with every meal. When they get sick they really really get sick--we're talking hospital stays of 3-4 days from a common cold. Prognosis is skyrocketing though due to better treatment. Survival used to average out in the 30's. Now it is expected to be almost double that. As M pointed out, this used to be a peds thing. But now it's growing to be a disease of adulthood. They keep adults in the peds wards for as long as possible, so if you see a 20 year-old in the peds floor playing with the blocks, they're a CF patient.
 
Yeah, I would have one but they are 50,000 dollars here >.> I do a breatheing move tho that helps A LOT more then the vest. Don't get my wrong the vest is awesome and funny as hell to talk when it's on but it didn't do much for me.

And i was thinking back to when i was little, I got a rock stuck inside my palm once(that's right, RIGHT in the skin.) I went to the emerg, there was no line, i go to the waiting room it was PACKED. i ended up waiting for 5 min before the dealt with me. And while waiting i talked to a nice skateboarder who twisted his leg like 360".

Anyway, for something so minor, they got me in and out so damn fast.

And Pere, I was in Boston general once for surgery and a lung infection(god i hate CF) and yeah i do have to agree with you. they are better there, nicer too.(I got everything free ^_^ God i love my "Life threating illness program")
I even met the lead doctor on CF Dr. Dorken. awesome guy. >.> they all speak like hicks tho >.>. I got free cable, 300 dollars in food everyday ^_^, an xbox to play with, my own room and i even walked up and down 18 fleights of stairs when i was bored lol I scared the shit out of my resperologist(she couldn't even do 5 tsk tsk tsk)
 
CF patients deserve the best, because the best is actually the cheapest in the long run. Plus, they're a great population. Young. Serious disease. Tend to be responsible, if only because they know what happens when they're not. Didn't do anything to get the disease, which is exceedingly rare.

I can't think of many things that are more inspiring to someone in medicine than seeing a CF patient running stairs. You can read about it in some namby-pamby inspirational blurb in a Chicken Soup book, but until you know the disease in and out, it just doesn't have weight. That's why medicine likes CF. You can actually do something for them, and they merit doing something for.
 
Peregrine said:
CF patients deserve the best, because the best is actually the cheapest in the long run. Plus, they're a great population. Young. Serious disease. Tend to be responsible, if only because they know what happens when they're not. Didn't do anything to get the disease, which is exceedingly rare.

I can't think of many things that are more inspiring to someone in medicine than seeing a CF patient running stairs. You can read about it in some namby-pamby inspirational blurb in a Chicken Soup book, but until you know the disease in and out, it just doesn't have weight. That's why medicine likes CF. You can actually do something for them, and they merit doing something for.
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OMG... that was... warm... and fuzzy...
And Peregrine wrote it... o_O
 
Oh joy good news.(just so you all know there is more sarcasm in that sentence then when OJ Simp said he didn't kill his wife.)

My wisdom teeth are growing in......sideways >.> the right wisdom tooth has hit one of my teeth and caused it to open from the top and it is now bleeding. >.> I can't chew or even close my mouth without having a shit load of pain. I breathe thru my nose not my mouth. For some reason if i breathe thru my mouth i can't stop spiting up flem >.>
 
Forgot to mention, the ironic thing is tomorrow i get them pulled >.>
 
Linhjah said:
OMG... that was... warm... and fuzzy...
And Peregrine wrote it... o_O
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This is not internet armor-getting. This is not no-scorp harness gimp. This is a vest that pummels your chest to dislodge mucus plugs, and this is parkinson shuffle "gimp." The real world gets the real me. Real people in the game get the real me. This online disaster of a general society, amplified by a forum where your letters look just like mine, where fools flock to be better than average and run the show by making up for a true lack of substance with sheer meaningless wasted clockhours, constantly looking out for number one...it certainly does not.

I'm not so harsh to people and things that matter. Internet-getters, grammarcheck-dependent idiots who like the sound of their own inept words, and black mages with superiority complexes do not matter, and as such will be treated like the nothings they are. Whether the internet creates them or they're like that in real life, I don't too much care. It's entertaining to watch a nobody try to be a somebody on the internet, as if its anonymity even remotely protected them from everyone finding out the truth the second they start typing what's on their mind, or more likely a lack thereon.

There are things in this world that I care about that are not worth throwing to the dogs of the internet. It's best to just keep them confused and at bay, because they annoy me and they're so fun to annoy. They wouldn't believe the truth anyway. That's why they're here.

lol what is a person with a kirin's osode but someone with too much time, too little responsibility, and too much investment into worthlessness...I, for one, demand more important accessories. The thing everyone so fears online, real life, is the thing I look for in a peer-based game. I rarely find it here, so it shouldn't surprise that I'm rarely like this.
 
Myrrh said:
Forgot to mention, the ironic thing is tomorrow i get them pulled >.>
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Wait wait wait wait. You're saying you have a sore throat and you're getting your wisdom teeth removed tomorrow?

That's not a good idea. Tell your dentist about the past few days and see what they say. They'll likely cancel the operation. You don't don't don't do oral procedures on an infected or infectious patient.
 
Peregrine said:
This is not internet armor-getting. This is not no-scorp harness gimp. This is a vest that pummels your chest to dislodge mucus plugs, and this is parkinson shuffle "gimp." The real world gets the real me. Real people in the game get the real me. This online disaster of a general society, amplified by a forum where your letters look just like mine, where fools flock to be better than average and run the show by making up for a true lack of substance with sheer meaningless wasted clockhours, constantly looking out for number one...it certainly does not.

I'm not so harsh to people and things that matter. Internet-getters, grammarcheck-dependent idiots who like the sound of their own inept words, and black mages with superiority complexes do not matter, and as such will be treated like the nothings they are. Whether the internet creates them or they're like that in real life, I don't too much care. It's entertaining to watch a nobody try to be a somebody on the internet, as if its anonymity even remotely protected them from everyone finding out the truth the second they start typing what's on their mind, or more likely a lack thereon.

There are things in this world that I care about that are not worth throwing to the dogs of the internet. It's best to just keep them confused and at bay, because they annoy me and they're so fun to annoy. They wouldn't believe the truth anyway. That's why they're here.

lol what is a person with a kirin's osode but someone with too much time, too little responsibility, and too much investment into worthlessness...I, for one, demand more important accessories. The thing everyone so fears online, real life, is the thing I look for in a peer-based game. I rarely find it here, so it shouldn't surprise that I'm rarely like this.
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Eh, I would have just said, "Thank you". (It was a compliment.) ;-)
 
Serious about the wisdom teeth though. If you tell a dentist "oh by the way I'm being treated for a bad throat infection" right after they remove wisdom teeth, they'll likely turn white as a ghost and pass the **** out.
 
Son of a bitch >.> i was finally able to eat something solid and now that my teeth are like this i can't -.- this sucks

Pere, i was just informed about that like 10 min ago XD
 
*Smashes head against the wall* I feel like that kid from van wilder >.>
 
3 health probs in one week isn't so bad. You should go to the Veteran's floor if there's one next time you're in. Lol they have like 10 a piece.
 
Man that sucks something horrible =(

I've been fighting some nasty phlem every day for months, not sure what is really wrong but I can't justify going to the doctors over it... Its clear or white, and it makes everything taste like... well yuck. I spit it out and a couple hours later its back, clogging my throat (not the nose at all) Started last july or so. I can't seem to find any real diagnosis :|

So yeah, feel better, no dentist until thats gone for heaven sakes!
 
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