PS - Margaret - RE: RAI isolation / IV / questioning our doctors

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Margaret, if you decide to accept the IV, I would double check that what is

being dripped into you doesn't have iodine in it.

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katiekabob wrote:

> " Medley, Margaret " wrote:

>

> > ... I think the purpose of the IV is to pump me full of liquids. I'm a

little

> > curious about this because of the previous posts warning about forcing

> > fluids. I am very annoyed at the thought of lugging the IV pole around with

> > me, but I'll just do what they tell me to do.

>

> You have a right - some would say obligation - to understand what is being

done to/for you, not simply to do what you are told. I have read literally

tens of thousands of letters on this listserv over the

> years, and I have never seen anyone say they were put on IV fluids during RAI

isolation. I'm aware that this doesn't mean it hasn't happened, just that no

one wrote about it, but I would want to know

> exactly what they have in mind, and why they think it's so important to pump

you full of fluids.

>

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