Almost Died

[ednemo]

Thanks everyone! I am slowly putting some weight back on. Feeling a bit better and lookinjg forward to putting this all behind me.

[GlockASP]

glad to here your feeling better.

C-Diff is a very common problem in hospitals, a lot of times it is caused by too high a dose of antibiotics or being on them for too long. You can pick it up very easily most times from the staff, cross contamination (MRSA & C-Diff have the same issue, they are super contagious). Just be thankful that you only picked up C-Diff and not MRSA.

Anytime you have a bathroom problem (loose #2) they will put you on a BRAT diet and clear fluids. It's not as good as government cheese to bind you up but it gets the job done.

Welcome to the club brother just make sure to take your Type II very serious, as you found out it can be a killer (or in your case thank god an almost killer). It can also mess with and cause complications in almost every other system in your body. It is going to be a bit of a shock and a life changer for you, but you can do it and control it.

You really are lucky to be alive.

Also, if they try to put you on Actos for your sugars do not do it. While it works it causes bladder cancer. Two family members have been on it and both ended up with bladder cancer.


God bless and Merry Christmas

[ednemo]

glad to here your feeling better.

C-Diff is a very common problem in hospitals, a lot of times it is caused by too high a dose of antibiotics or being on them for too long. You can pick it up very easily most times from the staff, cross contamination (MRSA & C-Diff have the same issue, they are super contagious). Just be thankful that you only picked up C-Diff and not MRSA.

Anytime you have a bathroom problem (loose #2) they will put you on a BRAT diet and clear fluids. It's not as good as government cheese to bind you up but it gets the job done.

Welcome to the club brother just make sure to take your Type II very serious, as you found out it can be a killer (or in your case thank god an almost killer). It can also mess with and cause complications in almost every other system in your body. It is going to be a bit of a shock and a life changer for you, but you can do it and control it.

You really are lucky to be alive.

Also, if they try to put you on Actos for your sugars do not do it. While it works it causes bladder cancer. Two family members have been on it and both ended up with bladder cancer.


God bless and Merry Christmas

I have been seeing those commercials for Actos warning about it. I'm glad I'm not on it and am now just waiting for the warning for something I am on.

[EDSLocklear]

Prescription milk and cookies? Dude, where can I check in?

Glad you're okay, too bad one doctor was thinking, "Gomer" (Get out of My Emergency Room, for people who don't know)

[BigDuke6]

This past summer I had an event that scared the hell out of me. I was driving home for lunch and all of a sudden I hurt in my chest like an elephant was stepping on it. Classic signs of a heart attack, pain radiating down the left arm and pain shooting through my jaws. I called my wife as she was there for lunch already and told her not to get crazy but call 911 as I was a block away having a heart attack. I made it home followed closely by the fire department paramedics and then the ambulance. They hooked me up to an EKG, gave me some nitroglycerin, and pain meds. On a pain scale of 10 I was a 9.

Get to the ER and they basically set me off to the side of a hallway while they made some tests, pulled blood, EKG, etc.... Cardiologist came by and said I may have had some cardiac event, but once he got my family history, he wanted to skip a stress test the following day and went right to the gold standard angiogram. Friends, this is what I feared the most. The next day I went down to the cath lab and the cardiologist said he was going in through my right wrist as I was an excellent candidate for that procedure. Well, I was in the lab at noon and home by 4:00 pm. By going through my wrist I avoided the arterial cut down in my thigh.

Great news, it was not a heart attack, but an acute case of reflux. He also told my wife I had a pristine heart and no blockages. Neat thing about it was that I was awake enough to see my heart glow like a large orange ball when the assistant pushed the dye into my artery.

I feel I have been given a 2nd chance to get back in shape and do things I have not done in years.

Please, do not take the symptoms of a heart attack or stroke lightly. Know the signs, know when to call 911.

[ednemo]

Time for an update:

I am back at work and have been since early January. I drink a Kefir probiotic shake every morning and am now walking without a cane. I walk laps around my workplace now instead of smoking and stretch every night. My tendons are still extremely tight but I can now step over a baby gate which I couldn't do a month ago. Today one of my old students came by and mentioned how much muscle I lost. (Truth or not, it sucks having it pointed out).

Currently I am dealing with sudden stabbing pains in my back as well as tactile sensitivity in my legs, back, feet and hands. Hoping it will go away soon. In the meantime I have Neuragen cream which seems to work pretty well. I was originally given a year to get back to where I was, but I am hoping and working to do it in 6 months. In a year I want to be in GREAT shape. I still can't lift weights but I can do pushups, leg-lifts and crunches. So, all in all I am doing pretty well considering they thought I was going to die back in October then again in December.

[FlashDaddy]

Man, ednemo, I just read your post for the first time...what a nightmare. I'm glad you are doing better and you seem to have a good frame of mind, wanting to get back in shape in 6 months. Stay with it dude, I'm pulling for you.
Flash

[ednemo]

Man, ednemo, I just read your post for the first time...what a nightmare. I'm glad you are doing better and you seem to have a good frame of mind, wanting to get back in shape in 6 months. Stay with it dude, I'm pulling for you.
Flash

Thank you very much. I appreciate it!

[Collie of Doom]

Time for an update:

I am back at work and have been since early January. I drink a Kefir probiotic shake every morning and am now walking without a cane. I walk laps around my workplace now instead of smoking and stretch every night. My tendons are still extremely tight but I can now step over a baby gate which I couldn't do a month ago. Today one of my old students came by and mentioned how much muscle I lost. (Truth or not, it sucks having it pointed out).

Currently I am dealing with sudden stabbing pains in my back as well as tactile sensitivity in my legs, back, feet and hands. Hoping it will go away soon. In the meantime I have Neuragen cream which seems to work pretty well. I was originally given a year to get back to where I was, but I am hoping and working to do it in 6 months. In a year I want to be in GREAT shape. I still can't lift weights but I can do pushups, leg-lifts and crunches. So, all in all I am doing pretty well considering they thought I was going to die back in October then again in December.

Glad to hear you are doing so well! Keep up the exercise, but remember to pace yourself. Throwing out your back or wrenching your knee in a bad way would set back your recovery.

[duodecima]

Excellent news! Your docs must enjoy working with someone who's putting so much effort into their rehab. Keep it up!