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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: creakinator on April 10, 2019, 08:01:45 PM
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Hi all,
I'm Kitkatz sister. I wanted to let you know she is back in the hospital with an infection. Her husband and I got her to the hospital last night - another ride in the ambulance - no lights or siren! They kept her in ER for a long time to figure out what the issue was then admitted. She should be out of the hospital on Thursday or Friday.
Send her good thoughts.
Christy/Creakinator
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Thank you for the update. I hope the recovery progresses well.
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Thank you for letting us know. Please tell her we are all wishing her the best and look forward to hearing from her soon.
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Infections are scary for us. Hope everything turns out well.
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Prayers from here in the middle of the Bible Belt.
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Get well soon! :flower;
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Lots of love, luck and strength, Cas
:flower;
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Thank you for the update. Please forward my best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Kathy
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Thank you for letting us know. My thoughts and well wishes are with her.
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Prayers and good thoughts. Plus I will do a good deed and will the karma toward katkatz.
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Best to you, Kitkatz. I wish for a speedy recovery.
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:pray; on their way!. Keep strong!
:cuddle;
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She's home. I'm sure she'll be checking in the forum in the next day or so.
Thanks for all your good thoughts and wishes.
Christy
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Thanx for the update, more healing vibes coming to Kitkatz and fam.
Love, luck and strength, Cas
:flower;
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Good that she is home.
:grouphug;
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Feel better soon! Sending you best wishes.
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Oh, there's some good news! Feel better soon, kitkatz!
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Thanks Creakinator for updating folks around here for me. It was a crazy Kaiser visit for two days. My doctor thinks maybe a virus hit me out of nowhere. He said things can get me quickly because I have been on D for so long. I have lovely black and blue spots down my right arm from Kaiser trying to put IVs in me and get blood. I pulled an IV because I wanted to this trip and I was slightly crazy. I have discovered I need someone with me in the hospital or I lose my mind a little bit. It felt like a run in with sepsis but nothing showed upin the blood work saying it was sepsis. My brain acted like it was on sepsis for a few days.
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Glad you are ome and it is a happy outcome. Hospitals make all of us a bit loopy.
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No doubt we were ALL worried.Since my Wife has gone into the Nursing Home I have learned how even just your run of the mill UTI can wack out an elderly mind.
Who knew? And I do mean wacked, she doesn't know what she is doing or saying. And it comes on so rapidly no one knows. Daughter has noticed that Mom's face begins to sort of flush, a rosieness comes into her cheeks. Sometimes, but not always, accompanied with a very light sweat across her brow.
When she sees this she now immediately gets the Nurse and asks for a Lab to be run to confirm, then the Dr orders an A/B started. Since Mom is partially incontinent she is nearly always wet, so she gets these UTI's too often, at least monthly.
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I wonder if your sodium levels were just enough out of whack to give you symptoms but maybe not so far out of whack for the doctor to be overly concerned. It's frustrating when they can't give you a definitive answer. Perhaps your body is super sensitive to the slightest change or germ that enters. Glad it wasn't anything worse. Being in a hospital is hell. Rest and take good care of yourself to avoid a rebound.
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Glad you are doing good! :flower;
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One time while I was on PD and taking massive amounts of potassium supplements my level still dropped to a critical level. My body went into neutral. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, I just couldn't move. Like instant and total exhaustion. I could not even stand up, much less walk. And a bit confused.
Ambulance rise. Blood tests clearly showed the problem. A couple IV bags of high potassium and I was fine within a couple hours.
They kept me anyway.
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A little Bleach in the ol' dialysis lines hua? Kidding! Hope not.
Glad you are feeling better! :cuddle;
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Potassium too far off either way is no joke.
ER Doc told me I was VERY Lucky my heart didn't stop, I was that low.
I still haven't figured out why as I was eating and taking my supplement as directed.
Now switched to Hemo I have to be totally opposite and NOT eat hardly a bite.
That was quite the change.
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We need an update Sister!
:yahoo;
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KK made a Facebook post with this link
https://chronicdiseasecoalition.org/patient-advocate-spotlight-katherine-soto/
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Hope that mean she is okay, and she is so right about infection. We had a guy, full of life, always with something quick to say. He left on a Friday, his usual self, over the weekend got some kind of infection in the arm with his fistula, and by Monday was gone. It can happen so fast, and that is one of the hardest parts of this whole thing.
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I am still around and hitting things with my stick. I feel like someone beat me with my own stick. I hurt all over and have a bout of sciatica for the last year or so. Kaiser managed to give me huge bruises on my right arm from trying to get blood work and IVs. I do not remember any of it. I was pretty much out of it most of this hospital stay from Tuesday night through till Thursday morning when they sent me home finally. I think the ER lost me when they moved me from one room to another. What a way to go people! Be assured I am still alive and kicking.
I am currently working on revising a story I have written. I have plans to write a book about dialysis from a patient's viewpoint.
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We are so Glad to hear from you cause we were worried.
Distance makes the worry so much harder when no one is close enough to sit and hold your hand.
Keep taking Care,
Charlie B53
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So glad to hear from you honey!!!
:grouphug;
Lots of love, luck and strength, Cas
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Be assured I am still alive and kicking.
Good, I hope your writing is uplifting your recovery.
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Hope everything goes well. Your story about being lost by the ER makes me remember a story Richard Pryor used to tell. He was in room 528, and he heard them discussing how the patient in 527 had passed away. He said, now, God knows mathematics and after 527 comes.....
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I have plans to write a book about dialysis from a patient's viewpoint.
If anyone can do that, it's you. You have plenty stories to fill a book, I'm sure