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#435465 - 08/02/17 02:26 PM
Re: Gary D in hospital again
[Re: DonM]
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Registered: 12/08/02
Posts: 15576
Loc: Forest Hill, MD USA
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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone. I just got home from the hospital, still have another week of recovery and taking antibiotics, and last night was the really scary part. The docs overloaded me with IV fluids, which I detected about halfway through yesterday and told them to stop drowning my system with fluids. Despite this, they continued to pour fluids into me, thus causing my blood pressure to sky rocket to nearly 200/110. The overload taxed my heart to the point to where my pulse fell to a dangerously low level of 29 beats per minute. This occurred about 4 a.m., the nursing staff panicked, and a dozen cuties showed up around my bed and alarms were going off down the hall at the nursing station like crazy. They even brought in a defbrillator - just in case, though on my chart, had they bothered to read it, it clearly stated I was a NO CODE - NO RESUSCITATION patient per my advance directive. They stopped the fluids, gave me some stimulant medications, and by about 11 a.m. I was pretty much out of trouble. The docs came in to see me about 11:30 and said I could be discharged today. The food was abominable, the beds were like sleeping on a bed of broken bricks with a sheet over them, and I think if they would not have given me the OK to leave today, I would have checked myself out. I have a habit of doing that, especially at this brand new hospital. Sure feels good to be home, Thanks again, Gary 
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