Hi Mark,
you seem to have a pretty bad situation on your hands. Are you seeing a doctor
at a teaching hospital or a local community hospital? Teaching hospitals that
teach young doctors just out of medical school seem to be much more
professional hospitals for which to be evaluated. The facilities of teaching
hospitals are very modern if not leading edge and the doctors usually are of
much higher quality in education and experience in the field.
I did not know you very well but my suggestion is to seek out doctors who are
attending doctors at an individual teaching hospital or at the very least has
visitation rights to that hospital.
I once needed a procedure and went to my local hospital for surgery but when
the time came my doctor and his fellow doctors in the operating room were
perplexed on how to sedate me for surgery. To make it short, I went to another
hospital, a teaching hospital, in which the doctors and nurses were not at all
taken aback by how to sedate me or with my care. It was very pleasurable not
to have to instruct more people, almost 10, on how I need my care and what to
avoid. Good luck!
Dillon
ollinOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No they didn't monitor me I went directly home after each procedure.
It was disreflexia I'm sure though.
Mark Jackson
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Tessiatore
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Quad-list
Sent: 12/15/2006 3:34:21 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Rollin Stone
Mark, it sounds like a nightmare. A typical situation for a quad though. I
try to stay away from any dairy products that contain calcium to avoid stones.
Even though my urologist says there is no proof of a correlation between
calcium intake and stones it seems very consistent when I eat a little too much
dairy with calcium I start to have stones again.
When you say you are sweating, did they monitor you for hypereflexia?
RollinOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey People,
Well Monday I went in for my laser procedure and my doc couldn't get it in
one shot so I went home with an indwelling cath for some reason and of course
it clogged up during the night making me sweat like crazy.
I was laying in a pool of sweat and he told me to keep it in for 48 hours but
I was passing stones around the cath which hurts even worse than it sounds.
He told me to come back Wednesday to do it all over and I about fell out, I
gotta do this again?!
Well Wednesday I wentv in and did it again and again he put a cath in me
telling me to leave it for 48 hoursbut once again I was laying in a pool of
sweat and passing stones around the cath so we took it out and I passed several
more stones.
I never want to get another stone!
I'm recovering slowly it still hurts like hell and blood red urine just sucks.
I'll keep you posted and thanks for the card Dave!
Mark Jackson
