Thursday@4Pm
progress report
Hello all! This past month has been very trying. I now am aware that I was going through drug
detox'ing during my time @ Scripps-Mercy. I take a lot of meds & some should have not been stopped so abruptly - detoxing cold turkey, I could have died & none of the nurses noticed the signs. So I came home very traumatized over the experience, which left my body in a weakened state. I began my meds back up again per the schedule of Dr. Zorn & then experienced shock from their reintroduction, causing my arms to go spastic, unable to hold anything - they were just flailing about. I was too afraid to go back to the hospital. Then I fell backwards into my tub, bruising my entire back & I'm still trying to figure out if I have bruised it or broke my tailbone.. The next day my legs kept giving out from under me -- making me run my head into a door jamb. I still would not go to a hospital. Well, I then developed a DVT in my right leg, still refusing hospital until I could no longer walk. The night before I knew I had to go to a hospital I felt a DVT forming in my left leg (and it was like a cluster of grapes) Does it end here--no. I go to the ER (kaiser) telling them about my DVT's and they tell me I'm in renal failure (!) with my kidney's only functioing @ 4%. They took me to surgery where a small piece of one of the clots traveled to my lung forcing the Dr's had to bring me out of anesthesia, stabilize me then go back in again. I was septic with E. Coli (normally found in the gut) in my blood. 95% of people never make it back from that edge of death. But here & I am alive. I brought my computer to the hospital but Kaiser is iron clad - can't get a signal in. I did lose 20# in the hospital, but then started pumping me with fluids & I was right back to my pre-surgery wgt. I see Dr Zorn tomorrow & I'll let you all know what I weigh now. Just been home for a couple of days and trying to regain some strength. So, I escaped death twice in a month.
Janet
detox'ing during my time @ Scripps-Mercy. I take a lot of meds & some should have not been stopped so abruptly - detoxing cold turkey, I could have died & none of the nurses noticed the signs. So I came home very traumatized over the experience, which left my body in a weakened state. I began my meds back up again per the schedule of Dr. Zorn & then experienced shock from their reintroduction, causing my arms to go spastic, unable to hold anything - they were just flailing about. I was too afraid to go back to the hospital. Then I fell backwards into my tub, bruising my entire back & I'm still trying to figure out if I have bruised it or broke my tailbone.. The next day my legs kept giving out from under me -- making me run my head into a door jamb. I still would not go to a hospital. Well, I then developed a DVT in my right leg, still refusing hospital until I could no longer walk. The night before I knew I had to go to a hospital I felt a DVT forming in my left leg (and it was like a cluster of grapes) Does it end here--no. I go to the ER (kaiser) telling them about my DVT's and they tell me I'm in renal failure (!) with my kidney's only functioing @ 4%. They took me to surgery where a small piece of one of the clots traveled to my lung forcing the Dr's had to bring me out of anesthesia, stabilize me then go back in again. I was septic with E. Coli (normally found in the gut) in my blood. 95% of people never make it back from that edge of death. But here & I am alive. I brought my computer to the hospital but Kaiser is iron clad - can't get a signal in. I did lose 20# in the hospital, but then started pumping me with fluids & I was right back to my pre-surgery wgt. I see Dr Zorn tomorrow & I'll let you all know what I weigh now. Just been home for a couple of days and trying to regain some strength. So, I escaped death twice in a month.
Janet
I am SOOOO happy that you are on the mend now and here with us. You gave us all quite the scare missy!! 
My gosh, what a cluster *bleep* that must have been. I can only imagine, but you obviously are meant to be here with us.
My gosh, what a cluster *bleep* that must have been. I can only imagine, but you obviously are meant to be here with us.
Sian 
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
Surgery Date 8/25/2011
Highest Weight 310lbs - Current Weight 154lbs - Goal Weight 175lbs
