Back from the Hospital

[Dianyla]

Holy cow!

I'm glad you made it through ok and that you're still with us. Thank you for posting this.

*shudder*

[Deanna]

Man o man. What a scary experience. I'm glad you are going to be okay.

[Fredwina]

not fun! And my co-workers wonders I try and roam the hallways at least once an hour. Speaking of which, I'm overdue....

[Nanci]

Wow, Sarah, I can't believe how long that took to develop. Do you really maybe have asthma, or did that all evolve after the flights, and cause you to think you did, then?

It kind of reminds me of when I had pneumonia last July, and me and my coworkers (at the hospital, in radiology) were all diagnosing me with different things like kidney stones...It took me from Thursday till Monday to actually figure out I wasn't going to get better on my own, and then my doc's office wouldn't see me till Tuesday, and when I went in, and described my back pain, the doc is like, well, you have pneumonia, that's a sure sign, but we'll x-ray you anyway.

Back to the CT. I worked in CT for about five years, and would always warn the patients that they would experience a warm, or even hot sensation from the IV contrast. Ok, so I had to have a chest CT with contrast a couple years ago. Well, what no one ever told _me_, probably because they hadn't ever had IV contrast, is that you get HOT right in the COOTCHIE area!! Nice...(Plus the rest of the body to various degrees, but it was really hot there! Don't know why.

Nanci

[SadieKate]

Wow, glad we hadn't sent over the shirtless dancing bike mechanics yet.

[Tater]

Wow, I hope you get better soon! Sending healing thoughts your way!

[DeniseGoldberg]

Wow. It's sounds like you are on the road to recovery now, but that's one scary tale. More healing wishes are heading your way...

--- Denise

[tprevost]

OMG!!! Sarah! I am SO glad you are going to be okay. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers and hope this gets straightened out in a way that has you happy and healthy once again!

Tracy

[caligurl]

wow! how SCARY!!!!!!! i'm glad to hear you are getting better... but... just WOW!!!!!!!!!!

[mary9761]

I'm glad you're ok Sarah, that's scary stuff. I hope that the swelling that Larry (Zman) experienced on the plane to Australia doesn't have anything to do with DVT, I was concerned that could be the case. I hope that you don't have any recurrance either. Sorry you're going to miss out on the rides you had planned.
Mary

[maillotpois]

Wow, Sarah, I can't believe how long that took to develop. Do you really maybe have asthma, or did that all evolve after the flights, and cause you to think you did, then?

I have been having trouble breathing for months, following an upper respiratory infection I got end of March. The lingering breathing issues and the fact I've always been a "fluid-y lung" person led me and my doctors to believe it was asthma. Now I am not so sure.

Back to the CT. I worked in CT for about five years, and would always warn the patients that they would experience a warm, or even hot sensation from the IV contrast. Ok, so I had to have a chest CT with contrast a couple years ago. Well, what no one ever told _me_, probably because they hadn't ever had IV contrast, is that you get HOT right in the COOTCHIE area!! Nice...(Plus the rest of the body to various degrees, but it was really hot there! Don't know why.

Yeah - that was SUPER scary - and I was specifically warned that it would make me feel like I'd lost bladder control, because it gets so hot down there right away. It was really nice because they had the woman who actually gave me the IV stand right there and hold my arm as it was going in - I was up to my boobs in the CT machine but it wasn't on. Having her actually touching me while that was going in was a HUGE comfort.