Re: Sorry for not answering sooner - had blood poisoning
- From: George Shirley <gshirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:08:46 -0600
pheasant wrote:
"justme[Karen]" <justme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:438F8D96.74470811@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI lost a first cousin once removed that I grew up with several years ago. He kept his body clean but seldom brushed his teeth. Got sick and wasn't getting better and doctors found out he had a deep seated infection from his teeth. Put him on a regime of antibiotics, got him better, found a heart valve was malfunctioning, went in and corrected that and a year later he went in hospital to have an aneurism corrected. When they cracked his chest again the artery with the aneurism blew out for about ten inches and he bled to death in less than 10 seconds. Forty-six years old and he was gone, leaving two kids and four grandkids, not to mention his lady friend and the rest of us. All because he didn't take care of his teeth.
Hi all - The evening after I typed in the last message here I had a Tylenol 3 and went to bed. Several hours later around 01:30 I'm in horrendous pain and my face looked like I'd gone several rounds with a freight train. Feeling really weird on top of it all I typed in 'blood poisoning symptoms' and read through a dozen entries and realised 'oh hell...I'm in trouble' and phoned my husband who was staying overnight at our son's place due to the blizzard we were having... and he was 2 hours south.
Called him and told him I was going to phone 911 and told him what was up. Called 911, the paramedics came, checked me out and brought me to the hospital... not a fun ride in a blizzard. The secondary highway here has no lights... and the storm is something else!
Doctor checks me out and tells confirms advanced blood poisoning, puts me on some antibiotics and pain killers (oxycodone) which, incidently do zero for me. Oh yippee...
Anyway- my face swelled up to unrecognizable proportions, one eye swelled up shut and spiked a high fever. Joints hurt like hell and now I'm having to deal with some cardiovascular issues.
Moral of the story? Don't be a chicken like me and put off pulling a broken tooth. I'm still far from healthy, face looks like hell and all the rest of it.
I can tell you a horror story that started with an abcessed tooth. Young man about 50 ended up in the hospital for 3 months fighting a whopping systemic infection that ended up leaving him with all his teeth removed, meningitis, and in a coma for 10 days. Hearing loss from huge doses of antibiotics to save him, etc, etc, etc.
Yah, don't be brave and think a bad tooth is strictly limited to the oral cavity.
Hope I never see this again.
Mark
My first cousin, his mother, lost two of her three children as her only daughter had died in a car wreck with her child and husband. The oldest child, 9 months younger than me, is all that's left.
Geroge
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