tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post2453554721951524940..comments2023-03-23T06:15:21.117-04:00Comments on Dry Drowning: VisitorDry Drowninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07859668459999066131noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-65239045722502965492013-11-14T16:39:05.663-05:002013-11-14T16:39:05.663-05:00Oh dear Ruth, you've gotten into the Bailey...Oh dear Ruth, you've gotten into the Bailey's fudge, haven't you? <br />You should share some with the Jehovah's Witnesses. ; )Dry Drowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859668459999066131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-58101231747309154222013-11-14T11:37:12.238-05:002013-11-14T11:37:12.238-05:00Andrea, I was feeling very low this morning-- my s...Andrea, I was feeling very low this morning-- my son's getting to the point where he can barely get up off the floor (and he's only 8)-- and somehow I ended up at your blog. I so needed to hear this. How you survived pain-- physical, emotional, pain from parents who can't show love-- and to know that the universe can show mercy in our darkest hour and send a message. I feel like your blog just did that for me, in a smaller but no less miraculous way. My grandpa Joe died of pneumonia when my mom was 3. I recently had a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses ask me who I would like to see in the afterlife (which I don't believe in) and I said, Grandpa Joe, while thinking to myself, there is no chance I will ever meet him, this is just a very painful thought. This was just 2 days ago. Now I have read your post... miracles do happen. Thank you for the tears and for the hope. You are a living miracle. I'm lucky we happened to stumble across each other.Ruth G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04504239357595952718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-73159481180812266222013-09-05T12:23:05.791-04:002013-09-05T12:23:05.791-04:00Hey L,
Yes, iv antibiotics for 6 more months. CL...Hey L,<br /><br /> Yes, iv antibiotics for 6 more months. CLSC refused to send a nurse because I was "able to get around", (school and physio on crutches, non-weight bearing). We had it arranged to go to the Lachute hospital ER every evening for my i.v. push, which itself took about 15-20 minutes. Since it's a small hospital and a quiet town, most nights we didn't have to wait, but of course on a night when there had been a car accident or something, we waited up to 3 or 4 hours, but it wasn't often.<br /><br />So Dr. Dorothy Moore (I had Mills while I was admitted, but Moore as an out patient) would have to order the antibiotics through our pharmacy every 2 weeks, which had to be sent by courier from Toronto because it wasn't available here (resistant bacteria, so it was a new cephalosporin they had just come up with, though old by now. I think it was Cephotaxim or something like that). My parent's insurance wouldn't cover it, so they were paying out of pocket. Each day's dose cost $70, one bigger bottle and one smaller bottle. One night when they called me in, my crutch slipped on the snowy floor and I dropped a bottle and it smashed. My mother, who didn't trust the ER to store my stash there, had to drive back home for another $50 vial. She was not amused. After that we kept a spare in the glove box of the car! After a few months my mother's insurance began paying 80%, and when the lawsuit was started the insurance company also sued the hospital/doctor for their 80% back.<br /><br />I had a contracture from the intense physio trying to bend the knee, (too much bone pain to try and relax, muscles were in a constant spasm) so over March break it was arranged that I be admitted back at the Children's for an old polio therapy called dry traction where my leg was placed in some kind of frame and then wrapped in some non-slippery rubber material kind of like an Odor Eater. The frame was then attached to weights like regular traction, except there was no pin in the bone, just the pulling from the surface. I had to lay in bed like that, only getting up (which meant undoing the whole thing and redoing it back up again)for short breaks and to use the bathroom. Anyway, one month of traction worked and with daily blood work they decided the osteomyelitis was probably gone.<br /><br />But as you know, the joint was destroyed by then and so I had the total knee replacement at age 19. Now that the risk of amputation was gone, the only other option to a TKR was fusion. I may be faced with fusion if and when my next TKR fails.Dry Drowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859668459999066131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-48048190064964443072013-09-05T12:19:48.005-04:002013-09-05T12:19:48.005-04:00" I continued on daily iv antibiotics for a f..." I continued on daily iv antibiotics for a further 6 months "...<br /><br /><br /><br />Daily, IV, for six months after discharge??? And how was that managed, did you need a home care nurse?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is unbelievable Andrea, your story's a nightmare that never ends!... :-(L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-74794639031944552322013-09-03T15:37:49.468-04:002013-09-03T15:37:49.468-04:00Thank you all for reading and taking the time to c...Thank you all for reading and taking the time to comment. I realized it was an era in my life that needed to be re-visited.<br />Welcome aboard, Pauline!<br /><br />Dry Drowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859668459999066131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-4317617778305336572013-09-03T09:46:08.730-04:002013-09-03T09:46:08.730-04:00I was fascinated when you told me the story about ...I was fascinated when you told me the story about your grandfather a few years ago, and I'm just as fascinated reading it in your blog today...L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-82398638421057175402013-09-01T21:48:45.181-04:002013-09-01T21:48:45.181-04:00Oh Andrea, you write your story so vividly, I can ...Oh Andrea, you write your story so vividly, I can see it, I can feel it and I teared up over it. You've been through so much. It is great to know that there are guardian angels watching over us though. <br />Paulinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014954143627998875.post-65707226672212866682013-08-31T20:27:35.982-04:002013-08-31T20:27:35.982-04:00A burst of light in a nightmare that seems only to...A burst of light in a nightmare that seems only to get worse. The world works in mysterious ways. <br /><br />Thanks for another amazing chapter in your amazing story.Patricia Ivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748691542068211518noreply@blogger.com