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Join Date: Mar 2003
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My significant other is in the hospital. Neuro ICU. Suffered a brain bleed.
Subarachnoid hemmorage.
Thursday.
They did angio Saturday, found no anheurism.
She has bullet fragments in her head. From a gunshot wound to the eye/nose 21 years ago.
She is in tremendous pain that gets worse daily.
They were supposed to do another angio today, but hadn't time.
Hopefully tomorrow.
This is ridiculous. She was in decent shape Friday and can't talk today from pain.
No neuro damage. yet. BUT, 2 male nurses ignored her calls for full bladder, and it was a twisted foley that later emptied 2200 ccs of urine. TWICE!!!!!
Spinal tap to drain CSF and blood. 10 ccs/hr.
But, nothing is being done. She's 45.
I know there are some meds here. I'm not asking for medical analysis but WTF do I do?
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I can't pretend to be an expert, so take everything I say as slightly suspect...but I can at least make some educated guesses...
- Bullet fragments in the head means no MRI...so they're limited to CT and other nuclear imaging techniques, which give less detail and penetration. If the angio didn't pick anything up, the bullet fragments may easily have moved, causing problems in the sensory nodes of the brain and causing bleeding. Of course, with no imaging, they can't see to diagnose.
- About the ignorance of the nurses - it's possible they aren't allowed to do anything, due to some silly hospital rule. It's also possible that they're just jerks. Find someone and ask (politely, but loudly, if necessary).
When did this begin, and when was there blood in CSF last?
I've based this on the assumption that the angio is clean...an aneurism would cause progressive pain as it swelled. Keep us posted...
(Last edited by Mister Elf; Oct 31, 2006 at 11:35 AM.
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True, no MRI.
We have a CT from June to compare, would that help?
The nurses can check a foley catheter, that's elementary. I don't mean to be sexist, but I think the male nurses didn't want to look.
Began Thurs. I saw no blood in the CSF today, straw color. But I saw it in the line.
We'll see if they do an angio in the am, if not??!!!???
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If not, what are you paying them for - get her transferred. If there's a genuine medical reason for no angio. Did they get a CT scan after this began happening?
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KeriVit, I'll say a prayer for the both of you. You have my best wishes that your s/o recovers quickly and completely.
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There will be an angio today at 2. If the doctor stops treating me like a sceond class citizen, perhaps I will get more information. FortunATELY, THE current nurse keeps me informed.
Thanks.
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Hope everything turned out OK KeriVit.
Our prayers are with you...
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angio=0
but i have a good feleing for tomorrow.
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