EDIT: Oh wow, thank you guys so much for the outpouring of well-wishes. You guys are the best <3
Well that was probably the worst three days of my life.
Savin here. As you might have picked up if you read our twitter feed, I was sent to the E.R. on Tuesday night. I am home now, in stable condition (though not what my doctors would call “good”). Will probably be taking the rest of the week off to recover, but honestly I feel more or less fine and should be back in working order in a couple days.
For those interested in likely boner-wilting details, read on after the break. Everybody has been asking, so I might as well write up a response in one place. Otherwise, see you guys next week.
After work on Tuesday I got a call from my usual doctor, who I’d seen during the week for a medication re-up and routine bloodwork (my cholesterol is fine, yay). She effectively screamed at me to get my piggy ass to the E.R., as my hemoglobin count (that thing in your blood what carries oxygen) was less than half of what a normal person’s was. And, it turns out, falling. I arrived around 9:00 at night, and was ordered a transfusion to counteract whatever was apparently draining my blood — be it internal bleeding or a deeper cause. However, I was left sitting in the E.R., and then the attached hospital, for over 12 hours without seeing an actual doctor or getting that transfusion. Nobody could or would tell me anything. Proper fucking scary, let me tell you. The weird thing was, though, that I felt fine — felt fine going in, feel fine now. I never would have known anything was amiss if my doctor hadn’t caught it in my blood work.
After about 18 hours and several dozen blood drains by the nurses (desperately trying to find me a match for a transfusion — they kept saying something about unique antibodies or some such), I got righteously pissed about the lack of getting a God-damn doctor to talk to me. Luckily for me, my uncle is a hematologist-oncologist, which is to say the exact kind of doctor I needed… just a state over. I was able to brow beat the nurses into faxing him my labs and brought him in as a consultant. Consultant of “get on the phone and yell at the doctor I was supposed to meet until he actually showed up,” apparently, because that sure got the ball rolling. Also cancelled my transfusion while he was at it, because that would be just a stopgap measure against what appeared to be a deeper problem.
Over the next couple days, they insisted on keeping me confined and monitored after several false starts towards release. After briefly stabilizing, my hemoglobin level continued to plummet into the “life threatening” level. During this time, despite suffering from extreme anemia, I was tapped for over thirty vials of blood — my arms are giant bruises, and by the end they needed to bring in a sonogram specialist just to find working veins they could poke at. I got next to no sleep, probably 8 hours or less since Tuesday morning. I was in pretty extreme pain from the dozens of veins being damaged and the least comfortable living arrangement possible, exhausted from sleep deprivation, and frankly pretty terrified after days of nobody telling me anything and being in critical condition.
And yet, this morning… my hemoglobin levels were dramatically on the rise. Better than they were when I first came in. For absolutely no reason: the doctors did nothing positive for three days, and I appear to have begun recovering on my own. I still do not know what the fuck is wrong with me, if this is a deeper issue or just some kind of freak anomaly, but I’m going to be seeing professionals for a bit to work out whatever the heck’s going on. Hopefully I’ll be able to transfer my primary care over to my uncle, as he’s actually semi-competent unlike the twat waffle they assigned me here, but that will probably be extraordinarily inconvenient unless I can just Skype him in a professional capacity. I absolutely do not ever want to deal with the Tennessee medical system ever, ever again if it can be avoided.
Given my complete lack of symptoms throughout, my sudden reversal, and the very obvious physical and mental stress I was in, both hematologists agreed to release me tonight. So I’m back in my own bed, safe and sound, but I’ve got no idea why that happened or if it will again. That’s pretty spooky, but as long as I remain asymptomatic… meh, I guess? Outside of the damage the hospital did to me, I’m pretty much fine and seem to be recovering.
So yeah, that was my week. I’m gonna go sleep like the dead tonight and then forget any of this ever happened post-haste. Take care of yourselves, and go get your cancer screenings and bloodwork done if you’re behind. As incredibly annoying as this all was, I’m glad someone caught it before I just face-planted into my keyboard and died out of nowhere some day in the future.
Savin out. See you next week.
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Fucking A man. Glad you’re alright, sounds like a nightmare.
sorry to hear all that dude, hope you get to feeling better soon.
It’s always extremely funny to hear stories about doctors scratching their head about what disease you have/ what they should do about it and then the human body goes: “Nah, I’ll handle this on my own!” Good to hear you’re feeling better.
… Until your the one sitting in the seat of said patient waiting for help. Stories like these make me think I need a lawyer at my side if I’m going to a hospital. ><
Hope everything goes smoothly from here Savin. 🙁
I was the patient in that seat once. I said it’s funny after your body dealed with it on it’s own. That means it’s only funny if said person is fine.
as i’ve said to many of my friends, our bodies are amazing things. they are adaptable at a rather rapid rate and do amazing things without know we could do them, this being a good example
Here you are, talking about the healing powers of our body… Phoenix. 😀
Yeah, hospitals are the worse. I nearly died from a mysterious infection earlier this year. The first hospital I went to treated me horribly, and misdiagnosed me, later im spewing all over the place and i check into a much better hospital and quickly recover. Later this same year i make the mistake of going again to the crappy hospital* for a sports injury and they misdiagnosed me again! WTF…
*Becuase the paramedics insisted that place was better for dealing with physical injuries vs the better hospital
*Walks into the hospital with a broken arm.
“Yep, looks like you have a concussion.”
(This is how I’m imagining this happening.)
Nah, said I had torn a tendon when in reality I had temporarily dislocated a joint.
i’m going to play a bit of devil’s advocate and say that the people at hospitals are just human. They are bound to make mistakes, especially when so many of our ailments share similar symptoms. You were just unlucky and had it happen twice to you at the same place.
i’d say based on what little info your post has, the paramedics are probably getting paid by the crappy hospital to recommend it.
Yeah, I dont like making huge post + always careful about posing personal info online, but I agree they were probably paid off to do so.
Well shit, that’s all kinds of fucked up. It would suck if you went in and got screened and they told you you had some sort of deadly blood disease, but it would be a bit better than “Umm, well we have no idea what’s wrong with you, but you seem to be recovering, so here’s the bill for all that we definitely did to save you”.
Hope they find whatever it is and can get it fixed asap!
About two years ago I almost died from something called autoimmune hemolytic anemia, that started off pretty much the same way as that. I’d been feeling pretty damned tired and crappy though, went to the doctor and found out my hemo count was like, .7 or something insanely low. Also, the fact my urine had been the color of iced tea for a day or so was a clue something was wrong. Mine didn’t get magically better though, I was in the hospital for a week andI wound up on immunosupressants for almost a year before my white blood cells were finished with their purge of the red ones. Shit’s crazy yo. Body just up and decides it’s done doing it’s job one day or something.
That sounds exactly like what I had. Was down in the low 7 range for days. Haven’t confirmed it was my white cells doing the red-murdering, but that’s on their radar for sure.
Just really weird I didn’t show any symptoms — I’d have almost preferred to be feeling something rather than just getting barraged with tests and sitting there feeling just dandy.
If you can, supplement yourself with vitamin b-12, folate and careful use of iron tabs. It’s better to just eat natural food sources of you can… Too much iron is just as bad as too little. Are you on a vegan/vegetarian diet lacking in fish, eggs, poultry and milk/dairy products?
Liver and other organ meats are great for iron and vitamin b-12. You can garner folate from dried beans, spinach, broccoli, beets, Brussels sprouts and cabbage. Iron and b-12 alone and lacking *could* account for what’s ailing you… But best to listen to your uncle and doctors for immediate remediation. I am not there nor a licensed medical professional. I too have a sibling doctor in the family. ^.^
Get well soon and pray that this is only a transient blip on the radar that can be helped with proper nutrition.
I can imagine someone feeling better after getting some good folate. But wouldn’t that drain him even more of energy and protein?
Wait, I might be thinking of the wrong word here…
While getting the silence treatment from the docs and your body is pretty bad, lieing there feeling all the symptoms isn’t much better. I never took myself for a hypohondriac, but I legit feared I might die there just because I felt like shit.
Best of luck to you, man.
just a fun theory you could be a chimera. chimeras have 2 sets of dna and usually one takes one job while the other gets the other(hair and bones for one , organs the other for example). might be why no symptoms appeared they were isolated to one dna in one region and that region happened to be your arms. but like I said fun theory(chimera are rarer then a genderless kuitan)
That really sucks to hear that the hospital did more damage than good. Hopefully, you’re in the clear now. Just be careful if you’re feeling weak and tired because those are the symptoms of low hemoglobin. Eating stuff with iron in it should help your body produce it.
Shit the human body is weird. My dad had Diabetes for most of his life after ‘Nam, Agent Orange and piss-poor diet are the culprits, then his kidneys finally decide to retire and boop! Diabetes is gone.
With you being asymptomatic I would hazard a guess that this has likely occurred before. Definitely something to find the cause of, but yeah, I’d be suspicious that your body might have pulled this shit before. I’m thrilled to hear that you’re stable though.
Jesus fucking Christ dude. I’m sorry you had to go through that.
Though I don’t really know what kind of person you are irl, I feel like you didn’t deserve any this to happen to you.
Christ, man. Are 85% of hospitals staffed by incompetent fuckwads?
Few years ago, my dad had two strokes in the same day. He was blinded in one eye for the duration of that day due to a blood clot that had gone into his brain. The brilliant hospital staff sent him home, telling him he’d be fine, despite his obvious inability to see the nurse delivering the news.
The next day, his sister (who worked at another hospital,) did an MRI on him, finding that a blood clot in his neck had broken free and split into two pieces. One went somewhere into his leg and broke apart. The other went to his brain, and could’ve easily killed him.
Honestly, stories like yours and my dad’s seriously make me want to take a medical class to learn to treat myself. I, as a single person, could probably do better for myself than the staff of idiotic fuckwits that work at some hospitals.
I will be devils’s advocate here and say that at least some of this is a matter of perspective. In a situation like your dad’s or Savin’s the patients and their closed ones suddenly become very aware and intolerant of the usual amount of doctors waffling around. Becuase to them its an urgent and extremely important matters while for the docs it’s buisness and usual. Medics may even be right in not assigning the top proprity to your case in some of those situations and just fail at conveing their reasoning and calming the patient down.
It really doesn’t help that most hospitals are run by greedy, greedy businessmen.
Had a hospital in Orange, TX. just up and quit one day. Nurses arrive for their next shift, find a paper sign on all the doors saying “closed indefinitely”.
Their boss couldn’t even be arsed to tell his employees that they’d all been fired.
(it is suspected that the boss was in on it, but aside from being a total douche, there’s no hard evidence)
The greedy fuck who owned the hospital?
A: he’d done this same shit before in another state.
B: had been cooking the hospital’s accounting books the whole time, made off with millions.
C: Promptly moved out-of-country, so as to dodge the class-action lawsuit that was about to be dropped in his lap.
Other area hospitals are kinda crappy too, this one was just the icing on the corrosive flaming sewage-cake.
Well thats just damned scary and I’m just reading about it. I’ve had my share of dumbass doctors but nothing life threatening like your situation. Maybe you can talk to your uncle and see if you can sue them? Or at least not pay for your visit there since they didn’t do jack shit to treat you or even communicate. I’ve found that doctors refuse to tell you anything when they have no clue whats happening. I could share my own mishaps with medical care but I doubt anyone is interested.
Get better Savin, and do whatever you can to relax after such a hellish experience.
It depends on the situation I think I’ve had really weird problems for my age but after my doctors ran lots of tests for a few days they told me some of the possibilities that I could have had.
The human body is just messed up. Most of the time it works just fine, and then, no warning, something goes wrong, and just as quick it self stabilizes.
Two months ago, and about a year before that, I had a pain in my abdomen, something I liken to getting punched or hit with a 2X4. It lasted for three days, just miserable pain, debilitating almost, and if I so much as took a deep breath it was like getting a follow up punch. No known cause despite an ultrasound, a blood test, and two CT scans, it came on over the course of an hour or two, and took three days to wear off. Thousands of dollars in tests, no one knows what the hell it was either time. Oh, and morphine didn’t put a scratch in the pain. That was fun to find out.
I am by no means a medical professional but when i was messing w/ overclocking some Microwave converters i got a dose of radiation, about a grey, As a result my hemoglobin levels plummeted like a stone, and scared the ever living hell outta my doc. I don’t know where your from, but it was my doctors assumption that the radiation had came from Radon gass and not the real source. It’s a radioactive gas that comes out of the ground quite often where i live and gets trapped in peoples basements there by killing them with radiation if not vented right, You may want to check to see if thats the case where you live, as the radon is tasteless odorless and is not noticeable until it has almost killed you. especially if you got better well you were away from your home.
This. Very this. Had my former neighbor almost die from radon-induced radiation exposure (former because she moved out, not because she died.) The only reason she survived is her doctor asked for her to get some bloodwork done before a yearly checkup, and the lab called the same day saying “your hemoglobin levels are scarily low check yourself into the ER immediately.” When she got better after spending a night at the hospital, the oncologist’s first thought was “radon poisoning.”
This was probably already tested for, but could it have been malaria? It does have the same symptoms you displayed and bounced back from.
Well, Damn Savin, I was *THIS* close to saying something funny about you needing to take a break and Getting some fresh air or something, but fuck me, that sounds rough. Chill man, keep on top of it, breathe the good mountain air for awhile. Hope you get better you buttfuckin’ Mander-bastard, This place, this game wouldn’t be the same without your sorry ass.
i hate when my body does weird shit. its a problem for me since the weird shit usually hurts. a lot. like having my heart, completely out of the blue, started pumping at maximum capacity. i could feel the beats, it was slower then it should have been, but it pumped a fuck ton more blood then hearts usually do. hurt like hell since my veins werent used to such massive loads of blood.
Never go to Michigan, the healthcare is just as bad. My mom had the same type of experience a few years back. She wound up just walking out because the fuckwad staff wasn’t doing anything. Literally. They left her with a drip for so long that it ran out and then started reversing and draining her blood.
Shot dude, i know this is a bit morbid but write out a will or something to be safe, dont want the dorna twins to be left all alone
Glad you’re getting better, even if it’s by accident. Feel better.
I feel your pain man, my mom was in a similar situation due to a blood clot and a tumor, I got pulled out the middle of a football game because her doctor said her hemoglobin count was a 6 (normal level is at least 13), she could have died that night, she had to get 3 blood transfusions.
thats…fucking nuts
It would be nice if you got some kind of compensation for them messing you up like that. Good to hear you’re on the mend of your own accord though! Like other people have said, the human body is quite a wonder sometimes.
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Maybe you should look at alternate therapy that’s more reliable than terrible, although I’m not sure if any alternatives, like acupuncture or a chiropractor would help with your condition.
you were lucky hope you feel better and get this sorted out.
Shit, must’ve been scary. Also: twat waffle is now my new favourite name to call someone.
Bodies are weird. And finicky. My grandfather had such low blood pressure that his doctor told him he should be dead.. and he lived just fine for another 30 years after that.
Friend of mine in high school’s father went into the hospital because of irregularities on a routine blood screening and the doctor came in and asked if he was feeling fine. He was like *shrug*. Doctor said “I ask because your blood sugar is 745. You should be in a coma or near-death right now.”
They kept him overnight and put him on meds and he’s still fine now, 12 years later.
It’s insane, isn’t it? You can witness a clueless dolt doddering around, poking sticks at stuff, consulting a tablet, and giving out a diagnosis that sounds more a question while shoveling mass quantities of pharmaceuticals at the patients. And at that same hospital, right next door.. there’s a doctor that’s whip smart, asks probing questions, discusses the thought process with you and comes to a conclusion that generally involves a plan that you gave some input into. I’ve had that happen to me several times. If one doctor doesn’t work and insurance is being a obstinate pig of a donkey, you can request another doctor until you find one who works for you. Best of health to you Savin!
I was like that exactly 2 years ago, and the doctors had the hardest time figuring it out.
Long story short, it turns out that I was born a “full hermaphrodite”, and my doctors had never managed to catch it until then, I may not be able to have children now, because of the damage from the severe hormonal imbalance.
I’m on medication to attempt reversing some of the damage, so I’m hopeful.
World needs more herms. Best of luck to ya.
sounds like an odd thing to miss to me, “oh, we didn’t notice you had both a dick and twat, sorry”
Doesn’t really work like that. An real-life herm with 2 complete sets of organs is incredibly rare and usually has a vestigial set of one of those organs.
Sometimes those organs might even be internal only (apparent male with ovaries) or even nothing at all except at DNA level.
I’m really sorry to hear that Savin, I hope you feel better soon at least.
Sounds a lot like a really annoying version of the weapon X program. You may or may not be deadpool now.
Sorry to hear you had to have yourself poked all over like that & all the other crap. >_< Glad you are better now though.
I remember a long time ago, back when I still lived with y parents, I was having issues with my neck I think. Basically, it felt like I was trying to imitate Emperor Palpatine's Force Electrocution attack, but shooting blanks. Basically imagine electricity from your own body harming you to the point that you feel your arms being jolted with electricity. After that, plunge your hands, palm wide open into a bucket of thumbtacks. That's the pain I'd deal with.
after 2 years of complaining to my mom to visit the doctor (most doctors & mom shrugging it off as me "Over worrying & your stressing is causing it" nonsense, I woke up one morning to find I could barely move. Like I was made of a block of metal.
The did some scans & found that 3 consecutive vertebrae levels near the base of my skull decided to start strangling my spinal cord for no reason. The scans picked up a bruise or scar or something which the doc said was "signal cord change". No clue what that means to this day.
They did the surgery, I have a crazy big scar from the base of my skull to near the top of my shoulder blades. Link will be below if you want to see. 😛
But that wasn't the end of my issues. After I healed from that surgery, I started getting horrible screwdriver to the back of the skull & pushing against your eyeball level migraines. imagine that screwdriver being hit by a hammer a lot also.
They found I have anon cancerous tumor/cyst on my pituitary gland. Not big enough to warrant removal, so it's just being left alone. Next MRI is in 2 years.
Also, I started developing sleep apnea, so they found I had a deviated septum & so they fixed my septum (nose divider inside), removed my tonsils & opened up stuff in the nose & throat. Oddly enough, that significantly lowered my migraines. No clue why.
It had the unfortunate effect of ramping up my proneness to getting sinus infections from seasonal allergies.
Also, due to my neck stuff, it seems that if I do exercise that gets m heart rate up even a little bit, I start getting the migraine headaches. No jogging for me. And I really want to lose weight. I'm now around 280 I think, but I was getting close to 300Lbs. I don't want that, so they are thinking of seeing if blood pressure medication can help with the blood pressure based migraines when I r to exercise.
Hard to lose weight if you can't really exercise huh?
And on Tuesday night I said fuck it to the headaches from exercising & tried some jogging & outright sprinting to get my heart pumping (to burn excess energy I had which was preventing me from sleeping.) I paid for it Wednesday due to my lower back hurting & shooting pain through my legs & feet.
They said I probably pulled a muscle & put me on some pain killers & anti-inflammatory meds & said no work for a week.
Oh well. Life keeps throwing challenges my way & I continue to face them with a smile & laugh at the insanity & absurdity of it all. Be glad I didn't tell you about my birth & how I was 2-3 months premature, removed from biological parents at age 2 of a spiral fracture of the arm & all sorts of other crazy crap.
Anyways, hope you get better. Maybe one day you'll be able to laugh this stuff off as a WTF body, why are you doing this shit to me again" way, kinda like I do. Sorry for any typos or whatnot. it's almost 6am & I haven't gotten any sleep tonight. @_@
Take care of yourself & keep up te good work, stay strong & hang in there. (b_^)b
Link to pic of neck surgery scar after it healed:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8837128/
It's freaking huge. O_O At least in the world of TiTS I doubt such things would happen right?
Lowering the calories yo eat can help much more than exercise. Diet changes usually see bigger results from what I’be learned and read everywhere. Hopefully your vertebrae stay in the right spot too and I hope your other ailments heal too. I’ve suffered from a high spinal injury/tissue death and it really is a drag to deal with the effects so I hope you don’t get them too.
My grandfather went through pretty much the exact same thing, from the unnoticed blood loss to the delinquent doctor to the mysterious recovery. He’s 75, it was two years ago, and as far as we know he’s stayed healthy as can be since. Don’t know if that’s reassuring or not, but it’s about all I can offer on the subject. Best of luck and remember that worrying too much can negatively impact your health, so my incredibly helpful advice is that you avoid doing that.
Dude, don’t worry about it.
Probably turning into Lex Luthor or something
Hospitals and doctors are seemingly always incompetent about rare and exotic symptoms. My sister suffered from inflammation that destroyed her muscles and internal organs putting her through hell for seven years and when she finally died from complications up to this day they still never really pinpointed what caused it or treated it properly. they just feed her medicine with more side effects for her to suffer from. We don’t even know if we could have prevented it or saved her. I don’t know the horror of it happening but I watched my dear sister slowly deteriorate and then die before my eyes. So i can still sympathize and am happy that you recovered and it didn’t take a turn for the worst.
Man that really sucks glad you’re better and I hope you stay that way.
Also, welcome to the I Should Be Dead Club even though I’m fairly certain you would have been happier never joining.
Wow, and I thought healthcare in my country was bad. Good that you are alright and I hope that they will find the cause.
That is absolutely terryfing to think about. Glad you’re out of that hell hole and able to get some decent sleep. Hope this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.
Great to see you finally made it alive!
It would have been devastating to see the greatest content writer getting bad-ended, knowing there would have been no more content.
Hopefully you will never be in that situation again.
Wish you the best and get some rest.
When I got to the part where you mentioned how many vessels the hospital ruined drawing blood, I had to stop and take a deep breath. My vessels are hard to poke if the person drawing the blood’s not very competent, so I’ve had some traumatic experiences with bloodwork in the past. I don’t even want to picture the kind of pain you went through ._.
Good vibes to you, Savin. Hope you find out what happened, and that you get better soon.
Don’t you love it wheen it sounds like the hospital did more harm than good?
Absolutely riveting it makes me optimistic to go to a hospital.
Hope you get better soon Savin!
Hopefully you´ll find out what´s wrong with you and get better. Not knowing must be pretty scary…
Good luck with that and take your time resting.
That’s pretty weird. One of 3 thing’s must have happened:
– Bad diagnostics, especially since you said your arms were getting bruised (you dont need to get pierced so many times or even get bruises if they know what they’re doing)
– You have an auto-immune disease, where your body produces anti-bodies that target you bloodcells and destroy them (would probably need to see your lab result to atleast know your hematocrit)
– You had a huge dip in your bone marrow production, though that’s usually always secondary to something else
You didn’t have any symptoms because you didn’t do any physical strain (very common, since people react differently), and you may be fine now because your body overcompensated, but I would go see that relative of yours to be completely sure, since these compensation mechanisms fail sooner rather than later.
Can’t have our analmacer die due to negligence
Or it could even be due to your diet, though It wouldn’t clear up so quickly without proper diet compensation
you deserve a break
In 2012 I was wrongly diagnosed. Said a had a minor sports injury. Sent me back home and said no sports for two weeks.
Broken neck, crushed vertebrae of the spine from c7 down, damage to the right side of my brain and vertigo.
I now go to certain hospitals that I know are good, because some doctors should not be in the field they are in. I’m not going to bullshit it and say they are idiots or medical practice is easy breasts beautiful covergirl. However I do feel your pain savin and the rest of you who posted.
That one fuck up cost my family thousands of dollars and it still effects me(probably will forever).
It’s always worse when you don’t have answers… My gallbladder was failing me. First week I was in the hospital and they told me it was all in my head and that I just had stress induced gastritis. About two months later I get a HIDA scan and end up in the ER. I was so dehydrated and I hadn’t eaten in four days. I thought I’D had enough of needles, I can’t even imagine the pain your were in. (just felt like sharing a story)
I hope you get well soon!!!
Damn, man. The worst thing that’s ever happened to me in the hospital was when I was 5, I was having a cast removed from my left arm and was saying that it was hurting and getting hot, but he did said I was imagining it, when he pulled away the cast, there was blood everywhere and two big gashes, one each on the top and bottom of my arm. Five years later when I had to have the cast on my right arm removed, I was NOT a happy camper.
I actually got that done at M.D. Anderson in Houston, Texas last month, because I fly from Florida to there twice a year to get my blood work, check bone marrow, cancer screenings, and a two-week-long study of my genetic code, twice a year. I at least get rather handsomely reimbursed by Uncle Sam for it (although they’re the ones that more-or-less caused it), through a study done on some descendants of the people who worked on the Manhattan Project – specifically those who were moderately- to severely-irradiated during the testing and construction of Trinity, Little Boy, and Fat Man, along with the gathering of all of the Uranium and Plutonium used in the devices. So thankfully, I get that stuff checked up much more frequently than you really actually need….
This story reminds me of Keplers Syndrome from Mass Effect 2&3 where Thane couldn’t breathe and was slowly suffocating cause his hemoglobin was failing to carry oxygen to his blood, and was nearly non existent. However I’m glad to hear your doing better though. The scariest thing in the ER for me was when I had accidentally reopened a surgical wound and it was literally spurting blood (like a good few inches), and when I got to the ER after a 20 min car ride I had to wait for an hour to be seen cause I poorly phrased my condition(because, Im spurting blood out of a gaping hole, and freaking the fuck out!). I sat in the waiting room bleeding out to where I couldn’t feel my legs anymore, and the wheel chair was soaked in blood. Then and only then after I told them that did the see me and cauterize the bleed(which hurt, A LOT). To sum up I hate hospitals, and what it implies when you go. I hope you’re better and don’t have to go back.
Ive been lucky compared to most of these posts. ive only gone to the hospital, for myself, 3 times. twice for stitches(left eyebrow, then left leg), and the third time was a pain in the ass check up that people convinced to have due to being hit by a slow moving car. nerve damage and micro fractures. car hit me in the knees, i hit the front of the car with my elbows. suffered from occasional pain due to nerve damage for about 4 months.
It’s truly terrifying how many of our so-called medical “professionals” couldn’t find their asses with both hands, a map, and someone standing behind them saying “lower… lower… no, that’s too low, go higher”. My aunt went to visit a doctor for the pains in her back several years back and was sent home and told to take some painkillers. Turned out she had a tumor on her spine and that night the pain increased to excrutiating levels of agony. She had to call for an ambulance (which had to be a HELICOPTER because she lives on an island community far away from the nearest hospital), nearly died, and has been wheelchair-bound ever since. And we weren’t even able to get any compensation from the useless cunt doctor who sent her home because being completely incompetent at a job affecting peoples’ lives apparently doesn’t disqualify you in any way from doing it. Since then, I’ve never trusted doctors on serious health issues.
Hope you get better soon. I had feeling of dizziness and pounding headache along with pain in left foot of something I never even taken or heard before and it makes me feel nauseated. No rush into work, make sure to just chill and get plenty of rest Savin.
A new breed of human, a breed to surpass them all, with unique antibodies that counteract any disease and allow increased in smut production! Also get better, that sounds actually terrifying.
for your new conente for TiTs I had already got the probe and what not on one of my saves but it said I can’t go to that planet cause I don’t have the probe can any one help me on that front?
As someone who is going to work in the medical field, let me apologize. There are too many incompetent or lazy personel (Respect for the exemptions) in hospitals now days. The main point is that you’re alright now, and hopefully this was just an anomaly. By the way as far as medical care goes i’m from Hungary so….. yea it’s bad.
I’m from Belarus… and it’s worse. I have never been faced with incompetence so far in the field of health care myself thankfully, but I know some people in there and judging by their words, I’m not sure for how much longer our health care system will continue to exist at this rate if our goverment won’t pull their heads out of their a///s, get some balls and use their f//cking brains to do something about it.
Please, please, _please_ file a complaint with the state medical board; there needs to be a documented paper trail, and who knows — if there have been other complaints, maybe that would be enough to get it taken care of before someone dies.
That Sounds pretty fucked up, hope There’s nothing firing back at ye. Get Well Mate!
holy shit dude i hope you’re feeling better
Well that was a rough three days. I’m glad that you are OK.
I… I have no words, Except hang in there Savin. Although there are assholes out there, there are those of us that care to see you recover, and wish you all the luck we can. Stay strong, you’ll make it.
This thread reminds me of when my little brother accidentally got a fish hook stuck in his cheek years ago (because he was swinging the stupid thing around like an idiot and it whipped around and got him in the cheek). Went to the ER. Waited for a little while. They had to use two different types of bone cutters to actually cut the stupid hook because they didn’t have any wire cutters and one of the pairs was too dull. While we had a pair of freaking wire cutters out in the car in a tool box that we could’ve brought in, had ’em sanitize ’em with some alcohol or some shit, and use those to cut ’em easily. Sometimes the ER scares me because sometimes the people in the ER have no clue what to do. Then again, I’m sorta in an area that has some pretty low-rated hospitals… *le shrug*
Either way man, I hope things get better for you.
thats a scary azz experience and I hope you never have to go though anything like that again. Also reminds me of the time my mother couldn’t breath well at all and after several hours at the ER with x-rays and blood tests, with a temp of 102 f, the doctor told her she good to go and just needed a nebuliser. Goes to a better hospital a day later for her routine check up and the doc there told her that she was at a great health risk and needed to stay overnight. gata love small town hospitals.
This mystery thing you got going on sounds an awful lot like a condition called ITP. http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/idiopathic-thrombocytopenic-purpura-11046
I’ve known two people who’ve had that. Chances are why you don’t know what it was is because the Doctors didn’t know either, that’s the scary part of ITP, the I (idiopathic part).
Look at all the replies! You’re loved Savin, don’t die on us!
why did you never see a doctor, why weren’t you briefed on the situation (if they don’t know what the cause is, then say so, and let the patient know you’re trying to figure out what it is), don’t leave the patient in the dark/limbo on what is going on. If you have the ability, this is clearly a legal violation by the hospital. You have the right to know what is going on, and/or to see a professional doctor!
Or, was your “emergency” all a hoax… did you really have low levels of hemoglobin?
This sounds like you’re a soldier at the VA hospitals… being left to die without ever seeing a doctor.
or, the government came after you through the hostipals/medical field, due to your coding work on adult games… (in one state/county, the local police went after the owner/creator of girls gone wild, locking him unlawfully in jail, committing the crime of hostake taking, for months)
or… were you sexually assaulted at the hospital… there was a dentist who claimed that fondling the tits of his female patients helped relax them for the teeth-cleaning…
HK edit/clarification:
I meant a hoax made up by the medical people, not you, of course, in case it gets interpreted wrongly in this way.
twat waffle
LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
You get well soon man, take care of yourself as best you can, and hopefully whatever it was, has been resolved! (If only the microsurgeons were real)
Hey, Savin. If it makes you feel any better, I can still fap to you if you want, okay?
I wonder what Savin wants as fap material. Could make a possible “get well soon” project from the community with it? I know I want to make something.
This isnt enough dude. You have to actually die if you want more Patreon money.
Maybe post about your house burning down?
Dried plums, liver, beans, beetroots.
Good sources of iron, which helps with anemia.
Heh, that reminds me one day I did a medical check up for a new job.
Everything was normal, low tension, normal weight, eyesight and so on, until the doctor does the final checkup, about the heart.
Suddenly he stops and asks me if I’m alright, and I tell him that I feel peachy, then he tells me.
“Well with this results you should be having a heart attack right now.”
Of course I was feeling fine, this job had to do with doing exercise, and I didn’t have any pains or anything like that. Apparently some waves you MUST have when your heart beats were missing or way too low, a clear sign of a heart attack.
So I spent half a day in the hospital, getting checked, waiting a LONG time for someone to pay attention to me, only for them to shrug and tell me they didn’t have any idea what was the deal, but since I was feeling fine, there was no issue.
It’s been some years already, I guess the doc’s machine was broken?
I wish you the best, Savin. Get well soon!
Good to hear you’re fine…
Fortunate you make regular doctor’s visits, most either think too little of it or are not so fortunate.
Do be careful, your diet could push you back into the ER if you’re not careful.
Man that sucks. I had to go to the e.r. myself 2 weeks ago. Turns out i had meningitis and shingles at the same time, I’m only 25 and already getting shingles. Anyway hope everything is going alright for ya
Sorry about what happened to you. Hope you get better soon!
Shit, man… get well soon. Corny line aside, seriously; one of the first steps to recovery is to kick that shit in the teeth.
I also wish for you to recover well from that ordeal, Savin.
Funny, in my case it’s the exact reverse with bloodwork results and symptoms and it has been that way for many, many years. Doctors say i’m as healthy as can be according to several bloodwork testings and whatnot (it’s all in my head, riiiight…), yet i constantly feel like you should have felt during your crazy hemoglobin drop. Of course sleep doesn’t give me any recovery either. So i have to avoid any and all physical/mental strain so things won’t be too unbearable, as Acheron16 mentioned with symptoms/strain.
The more I hear about hospitals and doctors the less I want to go there…
A few months ago, I had a testicle torsion (I’m french, idk if that’s how you say it in english, basically, my testicle had twisted on itself and the blood could not come in), I went to see a doc, he could not know what it was about so he said to me to have a scan.
Time passed and when I finally got to the hospital, I had to wait… hours… In the end I couldn’t take it anymore and started going back to home even though I could barely walk, my parents tried to stop me and called for help and finally someone came to take care of me…
Then I was sent to another hospital, luckily, they took care of me quickly and I had a surgery to remove my dead testicle the same day, apparently, I was one or two days away from an entire body infection.
I guess my story isn’t that bad but… I wrote it anyway.
what’s the worst I think in hospitals and the like is that people don’t really listen to you. Next time I have a testicle torsion, I’ll stay at home and let my body take care of it, even though that means two weeks of pain instead of one.
People really underestimate the human bodys ability to take care of itself…