Life Deals From Under the Deck...

I know it's probably normal and nothing to be concerned with, but damn if 'put a wire up the vein' does just sound...positively horrifying.
I'm so glad Misoon is back and had a great time!

I figure I might as well put it here as this thread has contained many things.

I just about lost my love last night.

Misoon woke me at 2:00 AM, she had welts and was itching. I gave her some benedril and put benedril lotion on her. By the time I was finished putting the lotion on, she was 10x worse. I immediatley said forget this, loaded her in the car and headed to the hospital. Halfway there, her throat started to close off. Needless to say, I put on my emergency flashers, broke every speed limit, ran every stop sign and red light on the way. Hit 100 mph on the main road.

By the time we got there, her lips were blue, she was still getting some air, but very little. Got her in and they immediately went to work.

Making a long story short, they kept us about 8 hours. Sent us home. We have no idea what caused it. We went through food and other things that might have brought on the reaction but couldn't think of anything.

So, she is better now, but we have no idea what caused it. They had us get an epipen just in case it happens again. They have her on steroids, anti-inflamatories, and benedril.

She is in bed asleep, considering how she reacts to benedril, she'll probably sleep for a while.

That's about it.

So sorry to hear this, Plunge.

Thoughts are with you and yours, man... and I am hoping for a speedy recovery.

Oh damn, Scott. Thank God you got her to the hospital in time. My best wishes for a speedy recovery and hoping this doesn't recur.

If she had started to have breathing problems at home, I most likely would have just called 911. When we left it was just severe itching and swelling. It was about halfway there when she started gasping for air.

But, your point is well taken.

I just wish we could figure out what in the hell caused this. Frustrating.

Scott... sorry to hear about your frightening experience but I am glad to see that things apparently turned out OK. Yes indeed, very frustrating to not know what brought that on. It is probably a combination of things and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it never happens again or occurs only once in a blue moon. My Mom had a bad reaction to something a long time ago and we had to call an ambulance. That was the one and only time that happen to her.

Awww, you poor sweeties! I'm so glad everything worked out ok. Sounds like she got bitten or something. I really highly doubt it was nerves.

Losing family is one of the worst things that con happen to anyone. I'm glad you all made it through the trauma.

First Scott, glad to hear that Misoon is ok, that is the primary thing.

OT, any EMT-B (basic or entry-level) trained to National standards (which is a requirement in all states nowadays), can tube an airway and assist with breathing problems. Combitubes or nasopharyngeal tubes are standard equipment on all ambulances nationwide. Not real pleasant to get one shoved down your throat or nose, but great at keeping you breathing

Stay safe,

Jerry

I spoke with our doctor today and they are now saying he thinks it is a rare form of food poisoning that mimics an allergy. We had crab that night, but we have crab quite a bit and I know she doesn't have an allergy to that. The crab we had was king crab legs, the extra large ones 1.5 lbs per leg. We each had one leg with our meal.

Anyway, I dug out our leftovers from the trash for testing. Each leg could have come from a completely different crab so it is possible for her to have had a bad one while the rest of us were fine.

Now I'm curious to find out the results.

Sounds like anaphylactic shock from a spider bite to me. That would also be reasonably rare but the symptoms are spot on.

Today is the leg vein study, will let you know how it goes!

Please do! I'm interested to know how it goes. We love ya Plunge.

Okay, this was a bit weird. I go in there thinking one thing and it was something else.

First off, I found out that Arteries are sexy and veins are not. EVERYONE wants to study arteries, but only a special few are vein specialists. It takes someone INCREDIBLY special to study veins. Cardiologist Smith made sure I knew this.

I get there and he imediately has me pull up my sweatpants legs, take off my shoes and socks and starts looking at my legs. He informs me that my skin is in BAD shape and found a smaller ulceration that I had missed. He had an amazing knack of finding numb spots and ultra sensitive spots.

After probing my legs and feet, he cancels the ultrasound saying the wrong ultrasound had been ordered. Evidently, there are various kinds of ultrasounds on legs that can be done.

We then start to discuss my legs and the edema. We discuss how veins have valves to keep blood from back flowing, but every vein in every person is different and you never know how many valves there will be or exactly where they will be located. We discuss compression stockings, but with my bad experience, he immediately rules them out. He hates them anyway and is pleased to be able to rule them out, especially because insurance pushes them so hard.

I then mention how this came on suddenly instead of slowly and that was a huge deal to him. It concerned him greatly where it never had any of my other doctors before. He said a sudden collapse of the vein system like this was rare. Normally, it comes on slowly over a long period of time.

Interestingly, the solutions are still the same, we kill the main veins and force the subsystems to take over. The biggest difference is that a sudden occurance usually means severe heart problems compared to minor ones. Considering that we already know about the heart, it isn't as big of a deal. Still, he is going to run a bunch of different tests that he hadn't planned on doing earlier.

So, that is where we are. A bunch of different tests are now planned, and the conclusion remains the same. I did find out that I will most likely not regain feeling in my toes, they will be numb forever.

By the time we were through, the nurses that schedule tests had gone home for the day. They will call me in the morning to start scheduling this mess.

That's it for now.