Shalimar
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Nona, I am so relieved! Please get well soon. Hugs.
And once again here I sit in a hospital....
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jujube
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Hang in there, Nona. Best wishes coming your way. I hate doctors, too.
Butterfly
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Though I thank you all for such kind compliments and wishes, my question was just asking others that have chronic illnesses and repeat hospitalizations about their feelings. You all really made my day though.
My cardiologist felt I was on the brink of a major heart attack. Thus the admission/cardiac cath. In actuality the erratic heart rhythms were because my potassium, that controls the heart rythyms, was at a life threatening level. And have a infection. The cardiac cath results were not abnormal.
Lon I laughed at your post....just semantics though. If you are in a hospital bed and the head is elevated, so you can breathe easier, are you laying or sitting? No matter, still in a hospital...confined to a hospital bed.
Good news, Nona. So will you be able to go home soon? Was your potassium too high or too low? Don't know much about potassium levels. They can give you something to control it, though, can't they?
Ruth n Jersey
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I think older folks have much to contribute. Years ago when I was working as an LPN and then in public health I always requested the older patients. I learned so much from them. I think I got more from them than I gave. Just their stories about there lives,I found fascinating. To this day something will bring to mind what one had told me or a saying they used. I hope you will be home again soon.
Pookie
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Though I thank you all for such kind compliments and wishes, my question was just asking others that have chronic illnesses and repeat hospitalizations about their feelings. You all really made my day though.
My cardiologist felt I was on the brink of a major heart attack. Thus the admission/cardiac cath. In actuality the erratic heart rhythms were because my potassium, that controls the heart rythyms, was at a life threatening level. And have a infection. The cardiac cath results were not abnormal.
Lon I laughed at your post....just semantics though. If you are in a hospital bed and the head is elevated, so you can breathe easier, are you laying or sitting? No matter, still in a hospital...confined to a hospital bed.
A person can't help chronic conditions, dear.
My best friend Ann passed in November. She had severe diabetes and non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. She chose to no longer be taken to the hospital after nine stays there in the past year. She was brought home, asking for no life-saving measures any more. She lived for three weeks, and passed quietly in her sleep on November 5, 2015.
It's a decision we make sometimes, I think. I think it's up to the person to decide and hopefully the spouse and family members can accept the decision.
She felt it just came to a time .... that was her time ... and it was.
I hope you are doing better, dear.
Though I thank you all for such kind compliments and wishes, my question was just asking others that have chronic illnesses and repeat hospitalizations about their feelings. You all really made my day though.
My cardiologist felt I was on the brink of a major heart attack. Thus the admission/cardiac cath. In actuality the erratic heart rhythms were because my potassium, that controls the heart rythyms, was at a life threatening level. And have a infection. The cardiac cath results were not abnormal.
Lon I laughed at your post....just semantics though. If you are in a hospital bed and the head is elevated, so you can breathe easier, are you laying or sitting? No matter, still in a hospital...confined to a hospital bed.
Thanks for the update Nona, was worried about you. :love_heart: Glad the test results were not bad, take care and get plenty of rest. :sentimental: