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following up on following up
Feb. 21st, 2007 07:45 pmI feel like I have been vaccinated with a Victrola needle, as my dad would say. I have not shut up today. Many interesting things! Many of which I can't write about here or you won't think are interesting! Well, M found them interesting, anyway, or maybe he just lied. i don't know. In any case, I'll just write about the medical drama for now and leave everything else for later.
When last we left the saga of the sick, I had developed a cold. I came home from work yesterday because I felt like crap and my coughing had left me with a sharp, stabbing pain in my ribs in my left side. I called the obgyn's office. The nurse called me back and told me not to worry about the rib, and told me what medications to take. I took a nap and she called back, woke me up and told me that she had talked about it with a doctor, and he wanted me to "follow up" with my general practitioner. So I called them, and made an appointment for today.
Meanwhile, I am feeling much better, and although last night was miserable, given that I can't lay on my left side due to the searing pain there, and the right side causes it to stretch the left side, and I can't lay on my back or stomach, I did get some sleep (right side, laying very still, and also periodically on my back to stretch.) I went in anyway, since they wanted me to. Verdict: lungs seem relatively clear. Rib could possibly be fractured, but he ain't orderin' no x-ray since I'm pregnant, so who knows? We did agree that since said rib feels better today, it's unlikely that it actually is fractured. He used a big word here about the rib, but basically, it's inflamed. He gave me a prescription for another antibiotic, and told me to start taking it tomorrow if I'm not feeling better, that the last antibiotic would not have done anything for a particular type of infection that he named but I can't remember. And then he took my blood pressure again, because the reading the nurse got was abnormally high. Unfortunately, it was still high (same) when he took it at 155/88.... so he wanted me to follow up with my obgyn.
So I call the nurse and got to talk to her right away this time. She laughed with me when I told her that he wanted me to follow up with them because it sounds so silly, them bouncing me back and forth between them. Anyway, I told her about the blood pressure, and she put me on hold to go ask the doctor about it. I knew right then that it wasn't a good sign--they never want to put you on hold, they want to call you back. She came back with instructions from the doctor that if I had blurry vision, swelling in the extremities or a (unusual) headache that I should go straight to the ER, and otherwise, I should come in tomorrow for an appointment. I did have a lady check it again after I went back to work, and it was 146/90. Top down, but bottom up, and neither of them good. Terr-freaking-ific. Hopefully it will be down tomorrow. Please let it be down tomorrow. I had completely forgotten to worry about blood pressure lately.
So, there's my medical drama for the day. Right now I am so sleepy that I feel like I could sleep for a week, but if I go to bed before eight o'clock, I'll probably be wide awake in a few hours and unable to sleep. So, off I go to kill an hour or two before bed. Or wash my face and curl up on the couch and accidentally fall asleep. One of the two...
When last we left the saga of the sick, I had developed a cold. I came home from work yesterday because I felt like crap and my coughing had left me with a sharp, stabbing pain in my ribs in my left side. I called the obgyn's office. The nurse called me back and told me not to worry about the rib, and told me what medications to take. I took a nap and she called back, woke me up and told me that she had talked about it with a doctor, and he wanted me to "follow up" with my general practitioner. So I called them, and made an appointment for today.
Meanwhile, I am feeling much better, and although last night was miserable, given that I can't lay on my left side due to the searing pain there, and the right side causes it to stretch the left side, and I can't lay on my back or stomach, I did get some sleep (right side, laying very still, and also periodically on my back to stretch.) I went in anyway, since they wanted me to. Verdict: lungs seem relatively clear. Rib could possibly be fractured, but he ain't orderin' no x-ray since I'm pregnant, so who knows? We did agree that since said rib feels better today, it's unlikely that it actually is fractured. He used a big word here about the rib, but basically, it's inflamed. He gave me a prescription for another antibiotic, and told me to start taking it tomorrow if I'm not feeling better, that the last antibiotic would not have done anything for a particular type of infection that he named but I can't remember. And then he took my blood pressure again, because the reading the nurse got was abnormally high. Unfortunately, it was still high (same) when he took it at 155/88.... so he wanted me to follow up with my obgyn.
So I call the nurse and got to talk to her right away this time. She laughed with me when I told her that he wanted me to follow up with them because it sounds so silly, them bouncing me back and forth between them. Anyway, I told her about the blood pressure, and she put me on hold to go ask the doctor about it. I knew right then that it wasn't a good sign--they never want to put you on hold, they want to call you back. She came back with instructions from the doctor that if I had blurry vision, swelling in the extremities or a (unusual) headache that I should go straight to the ER, and otherwise, I should come in tomorrow for an appointment. I did have a lady check it again after I went back to work, and it was 146/90. Top down, but bottom up, and neither of them good. Terr-freaking-ific. Hopefully it will be down tomorrow. Please let it be down tomorrow. I had completely forgotten to worry about blood pressure lately.
So, there's my medical drama for the day. Right now I am so sleepy that I feel like I could sleep for a week, but if I go to bed before eight o'clock, I'll probably be wide awake in a few hours and unable to sleep. So, off I go to kill an hour or two before bed. Or wash my face and curl up on the couch and accidentally fall asleep. One of the two...
