Re: Good Morning to All! I missed you All!

[Guest guest]

Gosh Irene what a HORRIBLE experience ... I thought you must've had

a blood clot behind your knee.

I'm really terrified at the thought my my RD progressing past the

darned annoying stage it's at now. I certainly find it troublesome &

it's NOTHING near what you have to go through.

Enjoy your respite1

Love,

in Cornwall from Oz

IPF; Fibrotic NSIP/UIP?

May 2007

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> Good Morning to All!

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> How's Everyone doing? I hope All is Well and Enjoying the weekend!

I sure will (lol)! Too tired & exhausted!

> I've been working in another city which takes about 3 1/2hrs -

4hrs to get there, so all week, I stay with sister

> down there?and on the weekends I come back to my appartment. I

need my space too (lol)!

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> The first week was very slow,?and try to get the hang of things.

At the same time, was dealing with severe pain in my knee....

> I couldn't get up or sit in the chair or couch, going to the

washroom and sitting or getting up from the toilet that required

some

> effort and with a lot of ouch ouch! going on. I couldn't even bend

to file papers?and I couldn't understand as to why, it was

> happenning, so I let it go and by Saturday morning, I was losing

my balance and falling....

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> Here's what happenned and?I hope nobody ever experiences this kind

of pain!

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> I get to ER, I see the registered nurse, sends me over to Minor

Care Area...waited about an 1hr and 25 minutes to see

> the?ER?Dr. He comes in,?asks me what's going on, I explain the

situation and I told him don't even try to bend my knee

> because it won't bend at all. At the same time while waiting for

the dr, I was getting this chilling kind of feeling in my

> thigh and sharp pain...Anyways he examines my?knee/leg it was

swollen like a pumpkin and I couldn't stay still from the

> pain and the examination. So, he says to me I'll be back! A few

minutes pass and the nurse comes and tells me you're

> transferred over to the Major Care Area....

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> By this this time, I'm freaking over because, if you get

transferred to Major it means something serious is going on!?I'm?

> moved to the other area! So I?ask?my nurse, why? and she

replies " the dr doesn't want to touch your leg, afraid of?doing

> further damage. Now freaking over has kicked in even further.....

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> Anyways, I see a the second ER Dr.....sends me over for X-Rays and

Blood?Tests and Blood Cultures in case I have an?

> infection in my blood. Gives me Toradol 30mg by injection for the

pain....not 5 minutes pass and the drug is starting to work.

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> This is what happenned....The?joints in my knees, got very swollen

like a pumpking and it kind of got paralyzed. The?Raynaud's

> Disease didn't help the situation because it caught off

circulation until the knee and then circulation was caught off from

below

> the knee to the toes.

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> What the medication did was, relieve the swelling from the knee

and then slowly the circulation started coming back, I felt this

> warmth, hot feeling and tingling sensations. By an hour or so

everything was back to normal.

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> I was sent home and Celebrated my Birthday on Monday and the

second week at work passed quickly!

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> So I'm home for the weekend!

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> Irene

> Raynaud's Disease 09/07

> PF 03/07?

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