RE: Marla/ Carpal Tunnel

[Guest guest]

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All I can say is I am so sorry, I hope the infection

clears up soon and you get a break from the health

issues like yesterday...Please be careful//Connie

--- topdat@...> wrote:

> Well Marla, it didn't go as planned.. No surgery as

> of yet.. and over last

> weekend I woke up on Sunday morning with the R side

> of my face swollen, with

> a red streak running from my mouth to the inside of

> my tear duct. I was

> screaming with pain and I had two teeth that had

> abcessed.. OMG, soo I

> called and got some antibiotics.. and finally after

> the 4th day, the

> swelling was going away... I had to see a oral

> surgeon on Monday, my blood

> sugars went totally " NUTS " and I'm now on a regieme

> of Augmentin 875 for 3

> weeks and they want me two teeth that have broken

> off to the gum line to be

> removed either next week.. I was told to call the

> carpal tunnel guy and

> cancel that surgery till I was over this tooth

> issue, if not they are afraid

> I'll end up with a " SUPER " infection, which would

> not be a good thing.. BTW

> I did lose about 5lbs but who could eat..

>

> Hugs,

>

> -- ER Visit

>

> Hi everyone, I went to a neurologist on Friday, I

> thought as just a routine

> visit. Boy was I wrong. I'm having issues with

> Carpal Tunnel, I went

> thinking we were gonna talk about having the surgery

> done, but while I was

> the nurse practitioner did a pretty through head to

> toe assessment,

> somewhere in the assessment, she kept going back to

> my heart. She found a

> murmur, that I had never had.

>

> The next think I knew I was in the Emergency Room.

> where they started an IV,

> drew blood, Chest Xray, Lower legs ultrasound, Cat

> Scan of my chest, all

> while I was in the waiting room, which was helpful

> since they were extremely

> busy. 5 hours later I was taken back to a treatment

> room, where I had all

> my test. so when I did get to see a doctor, all my

> test were done.

>

> Diagnosis: Fluid overload causing the murmur. I had

> like 4+ edema which is

> pretty painful, since my days where I fell and broke

> my Left ankle and my R

> foot, and was in renal failure. My doctor had

> stopped my lasix that I had

> been taking for 10 years.

>

> They gave me a dose of IV Lasix, a Foley catheter

> and sent me home, where I

> flooded my bag and I had lost 3000 cc since my

> departure of the ER, gosh I

> could breath again. I actually slept literally all

> day Saturday, and Sunday.

>

> What a adventure.

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