I know a lot of you swinging Richards are this board 24/7 but this is what happened to me.
I am now down to one to zero pain pills a day, the biggest problem with back surgery
On Monday July 1st I had a cough that would not go away and very painful I could not find a local doctor, so I went to the emergency room and received 7.5 mg? pain pills. Blew a 92 in their air flow tester
By Thursday it was still the same and went back to get a higher dosage; blew a 82, bells and whistles go off, they give me a cat scan and I have two blood clots in my lungs. I tell the doctor that I was totally unprepared to check in that night, could I check in the morning. He said I could be dead by then
They gave me some morphine and that helped. They ran all of my vitals including a blood test and guess what, I also have phenomena. They have this device that you inhale air from and it really clears your lungs
I am a social smoker and have a couple of scotch’s a night to help me sleep and had 3-4 nicotine lozenges in my pocket but had not gone without a drink in 30 years. I got 3-4 hours of sleep that night.
The next day after much coffee the head nurse let everyone go home but me and said my temperature had to go down because of the phenomena. I got my mom to bring some more lozenges but still no whiskey. More vitals, more air breathing, I had 3 vials of something going into my arm and Sunday morning arrives. I breathe a 96 and the head nurses say she wants to see what happens after I walk the hall ways with one of her nurses. Thank God there were some fat ones, and then I blew a 98. It took two hours to do the paper work for a release but I finally get home around 3pm, more sleep
My 89 yo mother did not want me to spend my first night alone, so I filled a flask and went to her house because I was still very tired; thinking I would fall asleep very quickly but I did not
I had moved from Dallas 3 years ago and kept my Dallas doctor and had schedule a physical with him this week hence, no local doctor. The blood clot had developed behind my knee because of inactivity, split and went to my lungs. I sit at my desk at least ten hours a day. All of my business is over the phone or emails. I bought a 50 year old house that needs painting inside and out. I am thinking of painting the interior while awaiting phone calls and emails, to increase activity.
I have no health insurance but they said 80% could be waived if my income was low enough. Hospitals have always had a receivable problem and this way they will get some money. Think about that Obama.
Btw I had a full chest x ray and there was zero evidence that I had ever smoked
Then on July 30th I woke up to a very painful lower back, I had found a local doctor who had me go back to the emergency room where they looked at the cat scan and saw that I had detraining vertebrae. With my thin blood, I took an ambulance to Edmund where I got the last room.
The next morning, they took me to the basement where they injected a fluid into my spine and then beat it in by hand. I felt like a Mac truck had hit me but with some morphine and plenty of oxycodone I am finally feeling better
Made it to the football game by not taking any meds that were making me pee for two days
I have been sleeping in my easy chair with a pillow in the back so I am not on the board 10-12 pm anymore