Re: I've got the whine - Who's bringing the cheese?

That's very interesting to know about blood. I think the only time I got
any transfusions, I was out cold. (Pun not intended), but I will try to
remember that stuff.

Thanks for the info.

--
Navy
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"Nann Bell" <hanbellGOGATORS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:50:53 -0400, d'huit wrote
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***my mother tended to be stoic and accepting about such things. that
worked for her for 83 years. i can't even imagine myself being stoic
about
anything.LOL

Before you claim not to be stoic, think back to the last *really* good day
(relatively speaking) you had. Remember how the whole world seemed
different
because your pain was so much better that day? I'm grateful for getting
those days occasionally to remind me I'm not being a total wimp about
things,
that just because my pain is chronic doesn't make it mild!

Like in the ER 3 weeks ago, when I considered my lower abdominal pain to
be
a
minor issue compared to the nausea. It wasn't good, but I'd only put it
at
an 8 or maybe even a 7. I was stunned when they gave me dilaudid for it!
It
sure helped though and the toradol I got upstairs made it easy to sleep
some.
Maybe I hurt more tahn realized and I'll betcha that can be applied to
most
of us here.

I mean, seriously,

"how could we keep going as much as we do if we let a full
awareness of how much we hurt seep into our consciousness?"
.

***good point, nann! i think your argument is the case for many of us,
when
it comes to pain.

((((((((((((nann)))))))))) geesh, i'm sorry you were in that much pain!
that's "hurtin' murton"! you're definitely not a wimp, kid. nausea is
harder for me to cope with than pain is. so, i understand how you could
misread your pain.

still, my mother was much more stoic than i am, from the standpoint that
she
never would have questioned anything a doctor said or prescribed. and i
think that is partly a generational thing. while i made them (in the
nursing center) stop giving me heparin injections to protect me from
"maybe"
getting bloodclots (just because i "might" doesn't mean i "will" get
bloodclots.) and i caught and corrected my doctor's errantly prescribed
dose
of 1000mg calcium 3 times a day (you can only absorb 500mg at a time and
the
rest either gets excreted or accummulates in your kidneys. my kidneys work
fine, thank you and i didn't want kidney stones.). and while in trauma
care, i stopped the nurses from giving me the pint of whole blood that had
been hanging on my iv pole for well over two hours at room temperature
(and
the room was hot! at least 80. air conditioning wasn't working properly
and
everybody was sweating up a flood.), because several nurses kept trying
and
couldn't get an iv line established in me -- and they kept getting called
away, as well as them being short-staffed that day. (whole blood that has
been citrated has to be recalcified after about 30-120 minutes at room
temp., depending upon how hot the room is. and fresh whole blood has to
be
refrigerated within 6 minutes, if not used immediately. i'm a blood donor
and you guys know my penchant for questioning everything. .) i even told
the nurses if i couldn't feel the coldness going in, then i'd know they
didn't get a fresh pint of blood.LOL i'm not the most trusting patient,
for
sure. actually, they thanked me for stopping them. i received 4 pts of
blood while in trauma care and 2 in surgery or recovery (not sure which
they
said).

it's funny, but generally i put a broken bone at a pain scale of 7. but
femurs are not ordinary broken bones and i'd forgotten that, what with the
37 year gap between breaking it the first time and this time. but i tend
to
try to create and sustain some kind of uniform meaningfulness out of that
ridiculous pain scale concept. so i stubbornly stuck to my broken bone
pain
scale definition of 7 anyway. and when i said "7" with my bp at
185/115-ish. (can't remember the second number exactly now) in ER, when my
ortho asked about my pain level, he said, "i don't think so." and i wound
up
with a shot of dilaudid in ER, too. but it didn't make me sleep. it just
made me weird . . . er . . . weirder . . . than usual.LOL

kate





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