It was not very long ago when I wrote the very same thing that Mark Jackson just wrote which was "I won't go to the hospital unless I'm near dead, I hate that place and good luck finding anyone familiar with quadriplegia, they think you're helpless and in a way you are because you're out of your element there. I can't wait to leave the hospitals and if it wasn't for my caregivers that truly care for me and come see me everyday while I'm there I starve to death "
----------------------------------------------------- The last couple of times I have been in the hospital (which has only been three times at the most in 12 years because of that very reason) ... If it were not for my family or persons who cared about me and I would most definitely be dead. No exaggeration. During a two-week stay in Brooklyn (ugh!) in 1995... I did my bowel routine in bed. And using the magic bullet with its quickness and efficiency at that time compared to now... I was completely finished in 30 minutes or less Shortly after that I was in the hospital (for a deep vein clot encouraged by my surgeries in Brooklyn) near my small hometown in New York State and I rather enjoyed the vacation but since my ex took care of my more intense needs (like the way I need to move and my bowel routine, etc.) it was fine. I was there a week and THAT time they brought in a bedside commode but it was just one of those cheap white plastic and metal or steel legs one. Again, if it were not for the magic bullets working so quickly... I could have easily gotten pressure sores by having to sit on one of those cheap plastic toilet ring ones for a lengthy period of time. My bedside commode hear at home is 28 years old and has a thick cushion on it. I have always kept it and I have not been able to find an equivalent online or anywhere. My last time in the hospital (actually just the ER to be accurate) ... I would not have lasted had it not been for my husband at my side. I should learn to save my previous quad list e-mails because I wrote here about that hellacious visit just for my doctor to meet me there to change my catheter because the agency had an incompetent nurse who could not get in at home. Never, in 28 years, has that ever happened! Getting my catheter change them home with no problem that is. Lori Michaelson Age - 43 C4/5 complete quad, 28 years post Tucson, AZ -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/2/2008 9:42:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] antibiotics I just got out of the hospital Friday after being in for seven days with pneumonia. I really like to know about the yogurt and how much should be taken after being on IV's for seven days. They always have trouble getting an IV in me. My first one quit working and they tried to do a pic line 2 times without success so the anesthesiologist used my neck. They were going to take me to radiology to try again but they decided to go with the neck IV and my pneumonia finally looked better. My bowels quit working also and luckily it was not a blockage, so I was put on Myralax and after about four days it started working. I was so miserable as it looked like I had a basketball in my stomach. It is unreal the kind of care you get in the hospital for at least this one. If my mother had not been around, I don't know if I would have gotten my bowels to work again. I would love to hear about others hospital experiences and if the nurses will do digitals properly. I found that to be a real problem. I was glad to have a good mattress that did not give me any breakdown. I was so anxious to get home, so I could get proper care. It did not help that my doctor did not come until the fifth day. I was told that the hospital had closed it's ER shortly after I was admitted but the county ask it to open again. How do you find the hospital that can give you proper clear? I go to the hospital very seldomly, but it is usually for UTI, respiratory problems, last time it was a coma, because of UTI that was septic. I remember not being that good the last time and I was in ICU at a different hospital, because the hospital that my doctors are was full. I remember going to the floor my last day, and the CNA just disappearing during breakfast and they had to have persons from other departments get me ready to go home. It's incredibly sad that you don't feel safe in the hospital. Dana ( C-4-5, 33 years post, 54, Prairie Village, Kansas, which is a suburb of Kansas City Missouri) I'm on some pretty strong antibiotics.....I know many of you such as John say to take good bacteria such as in Yogurt and acidophilius when you have been on antibiotics....My question is,,, do you take it During or after the antibiotics? or does it matter? Also speaking of John--from Ohio----Has anyone heard from him, I don't recall any of his posts lately and he was sick, and he posts quite often usually. Thanks- Dan H. Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living
