WAHHHHHHHHHH!!! poor Natalya...woman you get your tail out of that hospital!!! we miss you and we need you!!! Love and prayers from Michael and I. Get well NOW!!!!
Am glad to hear the NHS do sometimes work at the weekend, T is about to have a CT scan and Lumbar Puncture. She thanks you all for your kind words (and wants 'her' girls to go the extra mile this week).
Good news is the CT scan came back clear so rules meningitis out! Back to the drawing board for a diagnosis then. T says "Hi" and that "Lumbar Puntures f*&^%g well hurt" so, she still has some humour lol.
Waiting on some more blood results, will wet you know more as soon as I do.
Good news is the CT scan came back clear so rules meningitis out! Back to the drawing board for a diagnosis then. T says "Hi" and that "Lumbar Puntures f*&^%g well hurt" so, she still has some humour lol.
Waiting on some more blood results, will wet you know more as soon as I do.
Tell our gal that I can TOTALLY sympathize with the diagnostic pain :-) Meningitis was what deafened me in 1949, and I can STILL remember vividly the spinal taps... I've had a needle phobia ever since.
Good news is the CT scan came back clear so rules meningitis out! Back to the drawing board for a diagnosis then. T says "Hi" and that "Lumbar Puntures f*&^%g well hurt" so, she still has some humour lol.
Waiting on some more blood results, will wet you know more as soon as I do.
Tell our gal that I can TOTALLY sympathize with the diagnostic pain :-) Meningitis was what deafened me in 1949, and I can STILL remember vividly the spinal taps... I've had a needle phobia ever since.
R.
Yeah.. I don't remember the spinal taps they gave me when I was four, but it obviously scarred me for life as I now must preemptively warn all of my doctors that I am a high anxiety patient and don't handle needles well at all.
Yeah.. I don't remember the spinal taps they gave me when I was four, but it obviously scarred me for life as I now must preemptively warn all of my doctors that I am a high anxiety patient and don't handle needles well at all.
How weird; we have the same phobia, we give docs and blood labs the same warning, and my dog is named after you :-)
Good news is the CT scan came back clear so rules meningitis out! Back to the drawing board for a diagnosis then. T says "Hi" and that "Lumbar Puntures f*&^%g well hurt" so, she still has some humour lol.
Waiting on some more blood results, will wet you know more as soon as I do.
I will also be looking for more good news soon. Glad to hear meningitis has been ruled out. And yes, from more first hand experience, I symphathize with Natalya 110%. They smart. But that test is over now, anyhow.
Am currently chatting to T on the phone and she seems much more 'up beat' tonight (read taking the mickey out of me).
T is booked in for an MRI tomorrow. Today her doctor spoke of a viral infection in some blood vessels in her brain and a clot on her lung. Maybe the MRI will give a positive diagnosis and they can start curing the problem.
The lucky girl is on Morphine :) when I an op on my back a few years ago I had intravenous 'self regulated morphine' and got a real blast from turning it right down until the pain got so bad I wound it up to free flow! beats the needle in the stomach anyday.
T sends her love and hopes to be amongst the dpc throng again soonest :)
