Graft Clotted

[Simon Dog]

I spent five days in ICU with a TPI drip

Did you mean TPA?  If it is "TPI", what was the full name?

Congrats on saving the leg.  Beats having to hop to dialysis.

[Charlie B53]

It was  one or the other.  My memory could be faulty.  They were pushing a LOT of morphine in me, and it didn't work very well.

I sweated a LOT.  They wouldn't let me eat or drink anything as always had to be ready to go back on the table.  They must of been worried that the meds used during the procedures would make me sick.  So I was getting pretty dried  out.   On the second day the Nurse said  they wanted a urine sample.  This was a few years before Dialysis, but I was so dry there was no way.  Nurse told me I had 15 minutes to produce or she would use a cath.  But she did finally let me have two of those little cup things of apple juice..   She wasn't happy when I managed to roll onto my side, but I did make barely enough sample.

Done remember much else of those few days.  Well, somehow I managed to pull out one of the IV's, made quite a mess of the bed and the floor.  I still don't know why I had had to have IV's in both arms.  Especially when they had that huge on going in my leg.

I was a mess.