Beans Beans BeanI just love “MyChart” by Sunnybrook, a wonderful web-based access portal where I can see my lab results, notes written by my surgeon to other doctors, results of radiology tests and so forth. I just LOVE IT!
Here’s what was written with regards to my discharge from my lovely 3 week stay at Sunnybrook in early [...]
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Blast! I had blogged nearly a month ago that I was infection free for the first time in 3 months. This has ended. I have a roaring infection again, this time with bladder spasms. This has freaked me out a tad.
My last hospital stay, where I went septic, started with massive bladder spasms about 2 [...]
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I was not feeling that great this past Saturday and had some abdominal pain. As my latest stay in the hospital started with abdominal pain I was freaked. I paged Urology and ended up speaking to Dr O’Malley, a first year Resident, who suggested I try some Tylenol. He called 2 hours later to see [...]
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Well, I got sick again. Blast this decrepit body!
I went to Emergency on July 17th at 2am with severe abdominal pain. I was in ER for a few hours and was prescribed Macrobid by the ER doctor – a certain Dr J Thurger. I was sent home, hopped up on morphine. A few hours later [...]
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… had my bi-monthly post-op visit with my surgeon. I shared with him that I am not happy with how slow it is taking my hole to heal. After listening to my lament he ordered his 3rd Year Resident to open up the hole a little — 3mm in fact.
Now my tummy hurts. I want [...]
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… I never knew this, but it seems while I was in ICU during the time of my surgery I was on a respirator.. COOL!!!
I was having dinner with Diresquirrel, Lydia, Mr Andrew and the munchkins tonight. We were discussing, after dinner, how someone can feel quite icky with regards to surgery (not the patient [...]
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I had my wee little visit at the hospital this week. To make sure I’m not dying or any other such nonsense.
Doctor seemed pleased except for one niggling bit — I have a fungal infection of the incision. Joy!
I suspect I got the infection while visiting Dale and others in Ottawa a few weeks ago. [...]
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