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Get well soon MJ!

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Thanks Mac!!

New release day, is now Tue :-/ He wants me to have more bbefore I go to fight this infection.

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...or he's growing fond of you :-* ... ;D ;D ;D ...

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good luck on that infection MJ...big thing is keep off it and keep it clean when you get back home so it heals right......

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MJ musta found a "cuddle-nurse"...too busy to post ::) ...

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I am here, I was very tired yesterday for some reason and slept alot.

Last night at about 11:30 pm my sugar dropped and I was heading to coma time!! *Called the nurse and they brought me some juice and Rice crispys to eat and it was fine. meds they are giving me can be hard on your veins and my IV was hurting bad, to the point it was burning.
The nurse said she was coming to change it but never did, what a surprise.....Well the next shift they came on and I told the nurse that it was hurting and she said OK I will be back, I said it needs to be fixed before 4 am when they want to start the next IV!!

Well at 4 am they came in to start the IV and it was the nurse I told earlier, I said they never change they IV??
She said I am going to flush it and we will see how it goes, *I said it hurts right now its not right, she says we just going to try...

I have been a very quite patient so far and they ail love me till this moment, I looked at her with my Tony Soprano face and said What part don't you under stand? *You are not putting a dam thing *in me till this is fixed!! And I was loud!!

Another nurse came in and asked me whats going on while they other one was saying I need not yell at her.

I told the new girl what happened and I got all new IV and all is well now!

Then the I went back to sleep and just woke up.

Man I can't wait to go home and get a Wendy's Sausage egg and cheese muffin!! ;D

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I'm surprised you held your ground MJ - NOT!

Way to keep em straight big guy! Let them know that they can do whatever they want if you go into a coma but as long as you're awake you can APPROVE or REJECT anything they try to stick in ya!

Best of luck on the healing!

Blue

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Good for you MJ. Sometimes patients need to stand up for themselves to get any continuity of care. But one word of caution... Remember that the doctors may decide whether or not a patient needs a catheter... but the nurse decides which size. :-X

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LMFAO!!

Thats ok I hope they have extra large!! It takes two hands to handle a whopper!! ;)

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Not sure why your ther but its good to hear its going good and thoughts go out to ya. my wife just gave birth late December and all the nurses where great except for this one nurse who was old and grumpy.

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Thanks Still!!

Well things turning for the worse again :'( They did blood work to see what the level of meds were and found that I have not gotten enough meds to kill the infection, so now they have doubled it and I guess I an staying yet another day!!

You know I no I need to be here and I have delt with it pretty good till now, I am about had it and I will get grumpier by the day now, not going to be pretty :-*!!

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MJ, smile, otherwise you'll look like Charlie...then the nurses will really be something. I know it sucks being there, but they have your best intrest in mind. Grin and bear it and we'll be joking about it at Hammers in a few weeks ;)

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Yep...you'll be dancin' a jig!!... ;D ...

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I had a red letter in the front of my charts for the nurses, it read HOSTILE PATIENT. But it wasn't a good thing when I was in the hospital. I had been in a car wreck that was bad enough the E.R. doctors told me to say goodbye to my family, it would be my last chance. But here I am today, still as grumpy as ever.
I feel your pain with the nurses too. The last time I was in was to have the rods in my left femur replaced(they broke in half at 11 months out). The nurses came in and were supporting my hip and trying to pull it outward, I got hostile needless to say. The head nurse came in and got nasty with me saying this is what had to be done for somebody who had just had a hip replacement. I got COMPLETELY PISSED and told them I didn't have a hip replacement, but that I had a hardware replacement. We argued, and then she actually read my chart. Then I asked for pain meds because the MORPHINE wasn't working. I had the bracelet on clearly saying I was allergic to VICODIN, so what do you think she brought me >:(. Before it was said and done they wouldn't even walk past my room.

So look on the bright side, it could always be worse. And you don't want to hear about my catheter story :o.

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Hey Ferm I'm always ready for a good catheter story!

By the way I forgot to mention earlier that the suppositories the nurses bring are refrigerated to keep 'em firm. *There are usually a few in the freezer just for "special" patients.

Also, I have it on good authority that MJ's nurse is
Ben Dover RN.

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All I have to say its a good thing I know my own meds and the way my body works!!

Left to these people they would kill you over night!!

Any who the doc came in last night and said that if they double the IV last night and this morning that my levels will be higher then they need to be and I be fine to go home in the morning if I promise to stay off the foot!

Well at this point I promise to be his lover if it would get me home!
So it looks like I am going home by noon today!! :D

My wife already yelling at me cause Iwas making arrangements with CB to go see him this week end :o Thats not 3 weeks off your feet she said!!
I said what, I have to use crutches to go to truck, and I have to drive to the doc next monday any way?

I said all I do is set the curz control and go just need to break :o and I can do that with my left foot ;)

Well the good new is that I have no truck, cause I droped it off at the body shop last week so they could fix while I was being fixed, so I have nothing to get away in right now.

Besides its not like CB and I are going to have sex or anything!! :-*

O well I am going to do my best to sit still, not going to be easy!! but I know I have to do it!!

Next time I post I hope to be doing it staring at the V thur the window!! ;D

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Glad to hear you're finally going home, MJ! ;D

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Well since I'm sure everybody here knows what a catheter is. And the ones they put in to stay in for awhile have a baloon in the end of them that is filled with liquid to keep it from pulling out. Well imagine having this tube taped tightly to the inside of your leg pulling it downward towards your foot. Now imagine looking at some of the W.E.T. girls like this, :o. The tape doesn't let things move very well at all. And as though this wasn't bad enough. When they removed it, they didn't get all the liquid out of the baloon. And let's just say they used the grip and rip method to get it out >:(. So I can say I know what giving birth is like, with blood and all.

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Well I am glad they did not do that to me!!

O yea I am Home!

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GREAT!!...how's the "V" look??... ;D ...

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you mean in your house or dead?

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Congrats on surviving modern medicine!

TH

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Thanks guys!! V looks perfect, except the bracket is missing?? wonder what happened when I was gone?

Wait hammer never did say that guy showed up?? HAMMER WERE IS MY BRACKET!! ;) ;D

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All right Wind Talker, your home, congrats, get better, you and me got to take care of Lefty while the others are out fishing ;D

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Sounds like a Plan! ;)

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I now have a leg rest like MJ. ;D I love the bracket. ;D