Yep .... I began taking Pyridium yesterday which makes your urine orange which I don't like but if the pain is worse... who cares. That along with ibuprofen every six hours is barely covering the pain.
I finally heard back from the doctor's OFFICE and they either wanted me to go to the emergency room or to get another catheter change [that I just changed on schedule this past Tuesday] and a new urine specimen since the other one is 3 1/2 weeks old which is NOT MY FAULT! I do not have a fever so what is the year are going to do? Rhetorical question of course. I told the person who was calling me (who acted so laissez-faire about the whole situation) that I have called every week trying to get the results and everything has been put upon ME. She didn't care because she was just getting orders from the doctor on call while my urologist is on vacation. See below. Get this as far as "Lori's timing" - MY urologist is on vacation which be gone an entire week... all of next week. When I really need her because she has known me for 10 years. This always happens to me... whenever I really really really need my primary care physician or a specialist... they are always out for the day or on vacation or you name it. So many people can vouch for that. In the mean time I am in extreme pain but they will not give me an antibiotic until they get the results from the new urine specimen which takes time for the nurse to come out and get it, take it to the lab and wait at least 3 business days to get the results. Look what just happened. We set in a urine specimen and it took everyone to get 3 1/2 weeks for the results. I could be dead by now. On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 'There are a couple of OTC meds for UTI's. Call your doctor's office and > leave a message that if he doesn't get back to you in 12-24 hours, you will > take several OTC meds . This way, the ball is in HIS court. > > Best Wishes > > In a message dated 5/6/2016 4:42:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Nothing but competence on their part............................ something > terrible. Hope you all feel better soon. And God bless!!! > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Lori Michaelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have known Nancy for a couple of decades also and if you get this >> Nancy... you are definitely in my thoughts! Because of a sore I spent that >> many months in bed and then a total of, statistically speaking, 3 years in >> bed by only being able to get up 3 to 5 hours a day because it was a Stage >> III wound and any pressure or bumps or any type of "internal shearing" >> would open it back up. >> >> I thank everyone else who has responded to my inquiry! starting this past >> Monday I began to be UTIs symptomatic and the pain has gotten worse. My >> doctors office keeps claiming they can't get the results from the >> laboratory or the home health agency who took the urine specimen over 3 >> weeks ago! I have been calling them every single week but they keep saying >> they can't find the results. My home health agency nurse who got the >> results finally had to call my doctor's office yesterday but now I need to >> wait for my doctors office to call me to get on an antibiotic of some type >> because my bladder pain and my flank pain is so very bad. No fever but I do >> not want it to get to that stage [systemic] which he could easily do if not >> treated. And here we are going into a weekend! >> >> Incompetence is running rampant in this country. >> >> ~Lori >> C4/5 complete quad, 36 1/2 years post >> Tucson Arizona >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the update on Nancy. I've known her since the early 90's >>> when we would chat in AOL disAbility Chats. >>> >>> Best Wishes >>> >>> In a message dated 5/5/2016 10:29:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >>> [email protected] writes: >>> >>> >>> [image: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.davisgillen] >>> <https://www.facebook.com/nancy.davisgillen> >>> Nancy Davis Gillen <https://www.facebook.com/nancy.davisgillen> 8:06am >>> May 5 >>> I'm feeling much better, but im going on 7 months in bed because of a >>> sore. I'm going crazy! Please pass on to the quad list. Thanks for keeping >>> me in your thoughts. >>> >>> View Conversation on Facebook >>> <https://www.facebook.com/n/?messages%2F&action=read&tid=100000356803640&medium=email&mid=53218248e42d4G3127d423G0G0G7c090b17&bcode=1.1462455392.AbmMgfHXUzxks3eU&n_m=daanoo2003%40yahoo.com> >>> This message was sent to [email protected]. If you don't want to >>> receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe >>> <https://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=AS3JH33Dz_PpGGkF&u=824693795&mid=53218248e42d4G3127d423G0G0G7c090b17> >>> . >>> Facebook, Inc., Attention: Community Support, Menlo Park, CA 94025Sent >>> from my iPhone >>> >>> On Apr 30, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Lori Michaelson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Greetings my quad list friends and friends [since 1995 for me], >>> >>> Sometimes after so much time goes by and either we are kept busy doing >>> happy things or are stuck in bed with a wound... we often lose track of >>> each other and exactly who is who and what is about that person. >>> >>> I know we have lost one of the most wonderful contributors here [Dave >>> Kelmer] and I believe that Bill Jenkins (in Florida) was the one who told >>> us of his wishes. This was back in 2009. >>> >>> Having said that, here is what I would like from each one of you to >>> refresh my old lady mind. I feel like I have aged a lifetime over the last >>> 4 years after losing my husband and unable to live with family any longer. >>> >>> ** Name * >>> >>> >>> ** Age* >>> >>> ** Date of injury* >>> >>> ** Town and state where you are from (unless you would just like to >>> state the state you are living in).* >>> >>> ** Are you a quad or a para? If you are a quad ... what level of injury >>> are you? * >>> >>> ** Complete or incomplete injury? * >>> >>> *And any other information you would like to offer. Thanks a bunch in >>> advance!* >>> >>> Best to you all! >>> >>> Lori Michaelson - age 51. How did that happen?!?!!! >>> C4/5 complete quad, 36 1/2 years post. Unable to drive. >>> >>> I can feed myself if prepared and placed in front of me. Food needs to >>> be cut up if necessary. >>> >>> Grew up in a small town in New York State and lived there for 36 years >>> but after meeting my husband he got transferred a couple times which first >>> took us to Virginia and then to Tucson Arizona. >>> I was devastated with his unexpected passing at only 63 years old on >>> June 11, 2012 and over 90% of me went with him. >>> Went to live with sister and brother-in-law in northeastern Pennsylvania >>> for 3 years but, despite hiring morning and evening caregivers ... my >>> sister and brother-in-law wanted me to move on for a myriad of reasons but >>> primarily because my sister began having venous stasis and my >>> brother-in-law wanted his house back without people coming and going. >>> >>> Needless to say I am very disappointed in them because they very well >>> could have taken me on longer. I had I known it was only going to be for 3 >>> years (even though was an emergency situation as I had nowhere to go) I >>> wish I had found a live-in caregiver in Tucson where my husband and I have >>> been living for 11 years. >>> >>> Landed back in Tucson Arizona with a live-in caregiver in January 2016. >>> >>> My story is a long one but I will stop there. >>> >>> -- >>> "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind >>> and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." >>> ~Dean Koontz >>> >>> = >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and >> heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean >> Koontz >> > > -- "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean Koontz
