I apologize for my lack of communication. It has been
eventful lately. I have a prayer request to share with you. 2 days ago I came
down with a 100.2 fever but I just took my medicine and went to bed. I woke up
the following day, my fever had broke and never came back until this morning
when I felt horrible, took my temperature and it was 101.8. I had one of the
worst migraines and due to my port anytime I get a fever I have to get cultures
to confirm the line going right to my heart is not the source.
When I got there, only 2 staff were available due to shift chain so it took awhile just to be triaged. I saw a doctor who ordered blood tests and was placed back in the waiting room. Hours later I got put back in triage so the doctor could say they cannot find the source of the fever and I needed admitted to be monitored for meningitis and pain control. They did give me a slight amount of medicine but it did almost nothing. The Tylenol however, did break my fever. They said the ER department and the rooms upstairs were packed so I had to go back to the waiting room and managed to get a chair. It was so busy they were down to standing room only only after I sat. We arrived at 6:30 and I got a room in the ER at 1:30 finally and met the hospitalist who ordered pain meds but everyone refused to give what she order so I had a small amount of something which barely helped and laid in the ER till after I got a room upstairs sometime after 8pm.
My oxygen was dropping when I slept so they put me on
oxygen. Later, I found out they would
only give me pill morphine which I had been taking at home and it didn’t work
there so I don’t know why it would work now who knows but that’s what I got. I
whined enough that they finally agreed to give Percocet which helped a little bit but nothing IV like
I needed would be approved. I was also given a migraine cocktail thing called
DHE. I was then discharged. I am still in pain but hanging in there.
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