INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

JWoo

Blondie- you are up because your brain just knows when you have a window of opportunity to rest, and thinks it si funny to keep you wide awake. At least, that is always my case. Hope you get some rest!

Kite

I just read the last few posts.. You ladies made me smile. Thank you!

Tang--- I'm actually at the ER becuase of pain and being told to just "go to ER if you are uncomfortable" I've been having horrible headaches since my shot to bring my WBC up. Been here since 830. They wanted to do a Spinal tap after my ct came back clear on my brain. Uh no thanks! I'll go home now. And give me something that actually works for pain please. 

Chevyboy

OMG!  WE HAVE ONE IN EMERGENCY!  She's "new" but doesn't matter!  Gotta keep you guys out of that place!  They will surely kill you!  When I went 2 months ago for my broken hip, I was there for like 4 hours, and had to go pee, damnit!  So while waiting for tests, blah blah, I hollered, and said I HAD to go SOON, and a guy came with a wheel-chair!  I could barely MOVE, and my leg was just NOT there!  But I struggled to sit up, get down on one foot, crumple into the wheel-chair, while he lifted my foot onto the foot-rest, and down the hall we went! 

He left me inside the door!  I thought OWTF NOW what do I do?  But I managed to pull myself up onto the sink, and fall onto the toilet, and then, without any help from my LEFT leg, used the sink again, to hoist myself UP, and fall back into the wheel-chair!  

So I whimpered....  (i'm done now...)  And he came in to take me back..  with STILL a broken hip!  In HALF!  I was so weak from that excursion, I almost passed out.

They finally got the results from the x-ray AND the CatScan, and came in with that CATHETER the size of a garden hose, and said" you have a broken hip, so no more going to the bathroom"!     I did not know which was worse.... the excursion, or the insertion!   And then afte the surgery, they had to remove the damn thing, so I could get up and WALK, which by this time, I had forgotten HOW!

So what was I saying?  Oh!  KITE!  Good God Girl, you have to get out of that place!   Did you make a flee for it?  Are you now home, and taking lots of drugs? 

TANG!!! Wait!!!  Listen to our resident nursely gal Sass, on stuff about those drugs!   I know when it hurts, you want to take anything you can FIND in that medicine cabinet, but when we are left to our own resources, we can get into a chit-load of TRUBBLE!  

They gave me Morphine when I first went in, but that isn't generally accepted as a workable solution at home!   But what do THEY know?  Right?

dutchiris

Oh Tang and Kite, I'm sorry you are having so much pain and struggling to get relief.  I'm going Kite it's home from the ER and testing comfortably.   How frustrating for you Tang that they can't get this unruly seroma under control.

I really like all the pics of everyone!

Chevyboy

Read the very last line of this story...

http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/02/t-i-car-crash/?icid=...

Teka

Good Morning Owlettes!!!

*Lovely Photos*

susan3

I am so sorry so many r in pain. Can't remember all the names hope everyone is home and getting some relief. 

Your welcome for the pic info....soooooo fun. Love your pics. Wish I could kayak like that. Looks like so much fun.

I am having a horrible day at work today. People r being mean and demanding. Don't understand. The sun is finally out here and it is a beautiful day. I even started crying and someone said....I am smiling at you...you need to smile back......good thing I know how to bite my tongue . Although I might bite it off by the end if day.    Sorry for complaining .   Going to b a long day.  Yuck

camillegal

Kite u'r new and I hope u'r home and resting comfortably--everything they give us has an opposite reaction for something else well it seems to me--it helps one part, but it destroys another I am so sorry, I hope u'r feeling better by now.

And Tang if u'r still in this pain go to the ER--I kno we all hate it--- but they'll call u'r Dr. and u'r Doc will know u mean business if u end up there--maybe they can give u some relief. I hope.

Susan  work on Saturdays? OMG what do u do, oh it sounds terrible for u, When are u off?

Hi everyone and chevy--Just getting moving this morning---My kids are going to a First Communuin today and it's at a restaurant of course now that's what u do.====so they'll be gone this afternoon, so I'll have more time to go over my posts.

BBL

Holeinone

Kite, welcome, hope you are home sleeping

Spookiesmom, darling photo, thanks for the tip about taking a photo of a photo. I know there is a cable thing, that connects the lap top to the I pad to transfer pics. I will keep exploring that...

Susan, you might be the first Owlettes that posted a photo of her pet snake...sorry, but if you come hang out with us in the dog house, the snake stays home. Bring spirits to make cosmos. 

Smarty, did you have that yanked this year? Just 2 months ago..? You were sewing up a storm then...

Chevy, ay yi yi, the catheter, is so uncomfortable, or just unsettling. I know it's important but, so glad the 2 times I had to have one when they pulled it out....

I gotta get off my arse & get some work done....

Hello to all, Cami, I hope you enjoy your home alone time...

ziggypop

Kite and Tang - hope you are both feeling better & have pain meds that are allowing you to rest. Chevy - I can't believe they put you through that chit.. after my exchange surgery they had me in this girdle thing because they did fat grafting from my thighs. I hurt on top, I hurt to my knees and I couldn't get the thing unzipped for the life of me. It had a hole in it so you could pee, but it was so tight that it made impossible TO pee, beside the fact that if you could, you'd pee all over the thing anyway & they only gave you one. Then my aunt had my pain meds in the other room & I could find them & when she finally brought them to me, she left them on the bedside table & went back to bed & I couldn't get the tops off.  Yuck. you girls feel better. Don't do anything but take care of yourselves. 

ziggypop

Hole - great pics, you look just like I would imagine. Smarty, I can't belive you posted pics of your gall stones - I love that! Sass, do you think she should put 'em on warm fuzzy things? Here's how weird I am - the gallstone pic, no problem, but Susan OMG SNAKE!!!! One rule of the doghouse - NO SNAKES. Not even fake snakes. But complaining - that wasn't even the beginning of a complaint. You should hear Chevy,she'll go on for days about her ingrown toenail. I hate that when people tell you to 'smile'. I'll come kick him for you. No problem.

sas-schatzi

Tang and all I was looking for my description of a PCP and why they should be the center of care. Especially related to drug management  Please, if anyone saved it. It's very important right now for Tang. She's got too many chefs in the kitchen, adding to many things to the soup. 

This is highly dangerous ---highly dangerous, now and to her future. Sure hope someone saved it.

I did find some info on page 184 related to stuff I wrote about drugs, please review. There are a bunch of posts between us all Bookmark this page-- 184.  I'll poke around the rest of the 180's, it could be on the very next page.

Usually I would just scroll the pages, but we have done about 240 pages since I made this my home thread, and you all came along for the ride. We are prolific ladies LOL. That was in early DEC 2013.

Nettie it's no illusion why you can't keep up....... Sheesh. We are a mouthy bunch of broads

sas-schatzi

Found this description of my kidney(bladder stone) stone---we have just been discussing $44$'s galstone, Chevy's GM, Smarrty's biggun's This post was to Pawprint before she changed her name in DEc 2013.

BD(pawprint) so sorry you are going through some rough bumps, but we are here for you. We should talk about the kidney stones I had two--sept and nov2012. I blame Aromasin & micalcin. Stopped both, surprised I still had the second stone in Nov, but no problems since. Sept's stone I passed intact. It was beautiful--fushia, spiculated(like a black widow's egg sac), had an alabaster thing embedded in it, the shape of the tool icon. I studied it for many minutes-------THEN THREW IT AWAY------HAVE NO IDEA WHY I DIDN'T KEEP IT. Mystifying, 40 some years of collecting and straining patient urine to be analyzed and I THROW IT AWAY, mystifying.

The spikes are defined as "spiculated". Mine's color was a gorgeous, gorgeous fushia , with an alabaster pearlized thing that looked like the tool icon (top right corner of the IE and Chrome tool bar) imbedded in the the spikes. Just stunning. Nothing on the internet compares. NOTHING. LOL It would have gone into history. Seriously, it was that unusual. Instead, I threw it down the toilet.

Spookiesmom

I'll 3rd that. NO SNAKES in the doghouse!!!!!

Teka

sas-schatzi

Gawd that was work trying to get that stone pic in----goofy.

Jwooo you are going to have to give me a personalized step by step tutorial when I get some personal pics loaded. 

Happy dance for all that now can post personal pics. 

Jwooooo        YAY for you being here , you've changed lives---how much fun is that      

GardenGumby, thanks for coming here, stay and post more. Love it when you are around. Missed responding or acknowledging your visit . Memory erghhh

Morning Spookie LOL about the table settings.

Kite

I'm dying! Well not dyyying but laughing so hard I could pull a stitch. Literally. 

I did escape, with drugs. Yippee! I'm wiser now.

I'm not sure where the dog house is but if I'm close to it I'll be sprinkling my go away snake powder immediately. 

camillegal

OMG of course no snakes please we are a skiddish group LOL

Those are kidney stones??? I never new what they looked like nor the Gall stone, see I want to see those pics--it's interesting, I just picture things as they say stones , like the ones on old dirt and gravel roads. So I foind it interesting and SAS I can not believe u actually threw u'rs out--Doesn't sound like u.

I sure hope u all have a great day today.

sas-schatzi

CaMMMMIiiiiiii. You are so right. It was unbelievable. The spiculated one took from around 9:15 pm till 1:15 am to pass. The pain was like childbirth. I knew the second it passed. When I had it on the paper. I got out my spy glass magnifyer. Studied it, for however long it took to satisfy my curiosity------then threw it away -----??????????????

I was home alone, I took NO pain meds this whole time b/c I thought I may have to drive myself to the ER. So every spasm that occurred, a few minutes apart over 4 hours was felt to the maximum. I was using Lamaze breathing techniques to work through the pains, just as Lamaze is used for childbirth.

I didn't go to ER b/c I knew exactly everything they would do--------which would be everything I didn't need------except Huge amounts of pain meds. Which would likely have been with held b/c stones are so unusual in women.

Such a scientific loss. I can only say brain was running on empty.

sas-schatzi

Kite  Hi BTW .......You were so smart to get out of there before they stuck a needle in for the spinal tap.  I could go on forever about the "w's and H's" of what was WRONG with their approach to your problem. W's who, what, when, where, why, ....H's- how much, how often, how bad. But CHIT ! 

Chevy, what was wrong with the ER 's staff -----Doc and nurses-----approach to your problem was-----when you told them that you had walked on the leg after you had fallen, their mindset was ---"This patient (you) couldn't have a broken hip b/c you walked". They ignored all the training related to the problem. All the training related to the problem IS "this patient (you) HAS a fractured hip until ALL the tests prove otherwise".  

By walking on it, your fracture could of advanced to a worse fracture. You didn't know that. But the staff by ignoring all that they learned in the past inorder to be qualified ER personnel  ---should have known. IN plainer words, they f*cked up, royally.

Kite

I can't believe they did that Chevy... What morons! 

The doc said when he handed me the goods "The antidote to pain meds is pain, you won't take to much." Hmmm.......he's lucky he's right. 

luvmygoats

Sassy - the stuff about PCP may still be on STFU (around late summer maybe). I think you gave me the same advice when my MO pitched my shoulder pain off to PCP. I'll try to search around but maybe use "PCP" as a search term. Trying to cook some dinner too and pea brain is not good at 2 things at once.

Try STFU around July 12th. Looks like the discussion about PCPs.

Will catch up with remainder of thread in a bit.

Seromas - have I read that limiting use of the appendage (sorry prob. not the right term) helps in them not forming? Certainly no expert on the subject.

camillegal

Sas passing stones is supposed to be horrible, I passed 1 but it was small so I didn't notice much and the Dr. showed it to me I never thought about it again, but mine was small so the hurt part was not much, Yrs ago my DD1 had a kidney infection no stones and she said that was very painful. So kidneys are not fun when they are not working, well not much is fun when they don't work right I guess.

Kite didn't u'r Doc give u any pain meds? OK years ago I'd say no I don't want any but now I just take them.

Blessings2011

Ohhhh..... so many in pain and discomfort here!!!  

Sending out big gentle comfort hugs...

Am LOVING the pics people are posting! We definitely have some gorgeous women and beautiful families on this thread... not to mention the occasional snoozing furbaby....

Have spent the last week doing medical management for my severely disabled sister (a series of increasingly serious strokes) and my brother-in-law with Alzheimer's. It makes me feel good and still useful that I can still use that knowledge I gathered umpteen years ago.... much like our Sassypants, I would imagine!

HIPPA laws aside, I have cut through an incredible amount of red tape. DH just laughs. He says it's a gift. I say yes, it is, as long as I use it for good, not evil, like trying to get information I have no right to have. It helps to speak Medicalese.... and pretend the people in the offices are your BFFs.

Here is my new fashion accessory... meant to be worn "when I am vertical..." It's a back brace, very heavy, very hot, filled with metal supports and an intricate series of adjustable cords that are all supposed to keep my spine in alignment while we get that pesky disk to stop pressing into my spinal cord.

It's not too bad, kind of like sitting in an ergonomic chair that is glued to your backside and goes everywhere you do.

* WAVING HI TO ALL MY OWLETTES OUT THERE!!!! 

luvmygoats

Blessings - Um How does one sit in that? Or is that the point - you sit verrrryyy upright to keep it from digging into your um you know. But does look more comfortable than the "turtle shell" kind. Can't remember - that might be for higher up problems. Sounds like it would have been a divine accessory in 20 below weather but not so much in hot CA. It has been 91 here today. Predicting 95 S,M,T oh with fire warning tomorrow and prob. until severe storms on thur to end it. You know when it gets this warm in May in N. Texas storms can't be far behind. IF ONLY they would bring rain esp. here and west/NW.

Goaty hay price has risen to all time high. I will be out cutting more elm branches to supplement. Heck they're free. They also eat - you won't believe this - ragweed plants. I try to pull all I can b4 they sprout pollen. I pulled 2 1/2 buckets of dandelion tops last week b4 DH mowed them down. Will check later in week to see if I can get anymore.

Chevyboy

No, Sass, I didn't walk!  I couldn't!  I twisted my right foot and leg to sit in the wheel-chair... And then they "helped" me up to my right leg, next to the bed, and I sat ont he bed, and they lifted my leg onto the bed.  I could not even budge it!  When I even put my TOE down, that pain shot through my whole leg.  When you break your femur in half, there is no way you can walk.  SOMEtimes people "break their hip" but it is a hairline fracture, and they CAN walk...  

When I went to the bathroom, they did not have the results from the tests back... So they didn't "know" what was wrong...  But as soon as the Doc came in with the results, the catheter was right behind him, and more  morphine...  At least I didn't have to get up anymore....  They DID say it was separated.... after they got the results back.  I didn't actually "walk".... I sort of pulled my leg along with me, when I stood out of that wheel-chair! 

From then on, them moved me still on the sheet... over to another fancy bed, that vibrated, or "moved"...  Along with those things they put on your legs that expand and retract, so you won't get blood clots....  

They would not let me stand alone after that...  not without a walker, and them holding onto me....  It really was a bitch!  

But everything is much better now!  I only use a cane when we go out.... not at home! 

Geez Blessings!  I won't complain ever again!  Are you getting used to that contraption?

And what's wrong with snakes?  I used to play with them when I was in school!  They won't hurt you!  I just would rather they eat dog-food, or something not moving, or act more like fish or something...Ha! 

Sorry about all those problems with your Seroma!....    Man!  If it ain't one thing it's another! 

And Lilshit!  You little shit!  I don't HAVE an ingrown toenail!  or 2!  A "few" of my toe-nails are rather thick.... I'd say...  but NOT ingrown!  I DO have a hammer-toe though!  Bet y'all don't have one of THOSE!  Do you?   But my feet are tiny.... and beautiful, if it wasn't for my toes.... ha, ha! 

Hope you guys are managing your pain okay!  xoxooxxo

blondiex46

U guys r so entertaining, I have liquid morphine right here not liking it much. Have a h good weekend

sas-schatzi

OH ZIGGY KING of HEARTS came in todays mail  It's remastered and on DVD the color is awesome, 

OFF till tomorrow,

Tang call if you need me

if anyone finds that psot on PCP's god bless you

Thanks LMG's, but I think there is a more recent one than that , but I'll take an old one and rework it if I have too. Bless you

luvmygoats

Sassy I'll keep looking. I think I put in STFU so I'll be more general in next search. Enjoy (wink, wink) whatever you are off for until tomorrow.

Watching the KY Derby.

susan3

ziggy..thanks for wanting to kick but for me

I will def bring the cosmos's....the snake will be so disappointed

Kite...it's a beautiful snake..come on no snake powder..lol

Sas...glad u threw stones away...good girl

Chevy...yeah...you like my snake....story sounds horrible of what I went through at the hospital..yuck

Cami...worked 8 hours today. Usually can only do 4 hours. I am a hairdresser. Some days the clients are just yucky and some days I am to sensitive. I think today was both. I use to work full weeks 10 hour days and I cut way back since mbc. This particular chemo I am on is not bothering me much. So I am getting clients wanting there 8am apts back and there late night ones back too. Just can't do it . They see me doing real well right now, but have forgotten all the bad ones we have had to work through. Not such a big deal in the grand scheme of things....I just wasn't in the mood today for the egrp. (Extra grace required people).

But now I am on my screen porch relaxing. It is a beautiful day. Hope you had some fun in your quiet time