Update on my throwing up blood almost 3 weeks ago
Well, I was supposed to call the Dr. back on Friday morning (May 14th) after being in the ER Thursday night because I had blood in my vomit. They wanted my OB to run another blood test to see if my hemoglobin and hematocrit had dropped from the night before. His nurse calls me back and I asked where they wanted me to take care of this (they are 30 minutes away from me). She tells me that my OB said that I could just get my blood rechecked at my next appt. (which was 11 days away). I was thinking, HELLO, my levels were already WAY below normal last night and they said it was CRUCIAL that I had them rechecked on Friday.
So, I already had a call into my GI Dr.'s office and waited on them to call me back Friday afternoon. I talked to his nurse and told her I was more dizzy and hurting a heck of a lot more than the night before. She said, if I was feeling like that to go ahead and go up there and get them to recheck it.
So, I go up there, fully expecting my blood levels to be ok or at least stable. WRONG. Both levels had dropped to a critical level. They ended up admitting me that night and over that weekend and I had to have blood transfusions. The GI guy didn't want to scope me because it would require anesthesia and it could cause me to go into labor and I was only 26 1/2 weeks at that time and definitely not at a hospital that was equiped to handle a 26 weeker that's for sure.
I was pretty pissed at my Dr. for not being more diligent. I didn't finally get to confront him about it until yesterday. I had to reschedule my appt. that I was supposed to have on May 25th because when I did get out of the hospital, the blood they had given me had only gotten my hemoglobin to 10.1 by the time I got discharged (normal is 11.5) so I still basically felt like crap and had a lot of pain. Then on top of all that, I have this like mass (we lovingly call it the "mass in my a$$) that's in the top part of my butt on the right side and it was really swollen or inflammed or something and it was pinching some kind of nerve or something and affecting the whole right side.......my hip (cuz it's kind of around the top of my hip bone that goes around to my rear), down my right leg and I couldn't even lift my right leg off the ground. I basically had to grab that spot on my backend and drag my leg when I wanted to walk. My bathroom is 10 feet away from my bed and I could barely make it there and back. Hubby had to help me A LOT and had to help me get off the toilet at times too. Embarassing! But it was PAINFUL. He kept insisting I go back to the hospital because I was in so much pain I could hardly move, but heck, after the blood transfusion incident, I was not too eager to go back to the hospital for ANY reason! I ended up having to stay in bed from May 16th when I got discharged for the blood issue until about 5 days ago. I guess the inflammation finally went down or something because I can move again! Thank God cuz all that pain was for the birds.
To make matters worse, my labs are starting to look like crap again despite my vigilance in taking my vitamins and supplements. My vit. D is still in the toilet, my blood calcium levels are LOW, potassium is low, albumin, hemoglobin, hematocrit, etc.....I could go on and on. My labs just look awful and it's so discouraging. And I'm even eating well and gaining weight which is even more perplexing as to why everything is so low. Well, I know Kenzie is probably taking all the nutrients she needs. She's growing well. Me on the other hand, I'm starting to have irregular heart beats again A LOT more frequently since this blood transfusion incident and I just hope it doesn't get any worse. Guess I need to see my cardiologist. I was too ticked off at my OB's office yesterday to mention the irregular heart beats, or get my Zofran script refilled or to ask when he would do Kenzie's next growth ultrasound.
I swear I just want to get through these next 10 weeks and get Kenzie delivered happy and healthy. I don't want her to suffer because MY body is.
Well, if you read this far, thanks! Congrats to everyone that's had their little ones since I've been gone. I can definitely say that I won't be able to be on the computer very much at all until Kenzie gets here. It's VERY hard on me to be up for any length of time and I'm pretty much bedbound 99% of the time. But that doesn't mean I'm not still thinking about and praying for you guys!
So, I already had a call into my GI Dr.'s office and waited on them to call me back Friday afternoon. I talked to his nurse and told her I was more dizzy and hurting a heck of a lot more than the night before. She said, if I was feeling like that to go ahead and go up there and get them to recheck it.
So, I go up there, fully expecting my blood levels to be ok or at least stable. WRONG. Both levels had dropped to a critical level. They ended up admitting me that night and over that weekend and I had to have blood transfusions. The GI guy didn't want to scope me because it would require anesthesia and it could cause me to go into labor and I was only 26 1/2 weeks at that time and definitely not at a hospital that was equiped to handle a 26 weeker that's for sure.
I was pretty pissed at my Dr. for not being more diligent. I didn't finally get to confront him about it until yesterday. I had to reschedule my appt. that I was supposed to have on May 25th because when I did get out of the hospital, the blood they had given me had only gotten my hemoglobin to 10.1 by the time I got discharged (normal is 11.5) so I still basically felt like crap and had a lot of pain. Then on top of all that, I have this like mass (we lovingly call it the "mass in my a$$) that's in the top part of my butt on the right side and it was really swollen or inflammed or something and it was pinching some kind of nerve or something and affecting the whole right side.......my hip (cuz it's kind of around the top of my hip bone that goes around to my rear), down my right leg and I couldn't even lift my right leg off the ground. I basically had to grab that spot on my backend and drag my leg when I wanted to walk. My bathroom is 10 feet away from my bed and I could barely make it there and back. Hubby had to help me A LOT and had to help me get off the toilet at times too. Embarassing! But it was PAINFUL. He kept insisting I go back to the hospital because I was in so much pain I could hardly move, but heck, after the blood transfusion incident, I was not too eager to go back to the hospital for ANY reason! I ended up having to stay in bed from May 16th when I got discharged for the blood issue until about 5 days ago. I guess the inflammation finally went down or something because I can move again! Thank God cuz all that pain was for the birds.
To make matters worse, my labs are starting to look like crap again despite my vigilance in taking my vitamins and supplements. My vit. D is still in the toilet, my blood calcium levels are LOW, potassium is low, albumin, hemoglobin, hematocrit, etc.....I could go on and on. My labs just look awful and it's so discouraging. And I'm even eating well and gaining weight which is even more perplexing as to why everything is so low. Well, I know Kenzie is probably taking all the nutrients she needs. She's growing well. Me on the other hand, I'm starting to have irregular heart beats again A LOT more frequently since this blood transfusion incident and I just hope it doesn't get any worse. Guess I need to see my cardiologist. I was too ticked off at my OB's office yesterday to mention the irregular heart beats, or get my Zofran script refilled or to ask when he would do Kenzie's next growth ultrasound.
I swear I just want to get through these next 10 weeks and get Kenzie delivered happy and healthy. I don't want her to suffer because MY body is.
Well, if you read this far, thanks! Congrats to everyone that's had their little ones since I've been gone. I can definitely say that I won't be able to be on the computer very much at all until Kenzie gets here. It's VERY hard on me to be up for any length of time and I'm pretty much bedbound 99% of the time. But that doesn't mean I'm not still thinking about and praying for you guys!
Allie
Mom to 5 cuties!! 
Ages 15, 7, 6, 4 & a 3 month old sweety!
-250 Pounds since GBS!
Sept 2009 
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