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Had no idea.....so sorry for all you're going through and hope things start to improve for your DH.
It's not easy being sick/injured here is it? Besides having to deal with ill-health, dealing with the insurance is very frustrating isn't it?
Take good care of yourself too cariad ((((hugs))))
cariad
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i just want to say a big thank-you to my fellow nurses from all nurses who have been a big support to my family recently.anyone who knows me through here will know that we had a car crash a year ago. dh has been suffering from lower back problems since then and due to the insurance system over here and big bills, wouldnt go for more treatment until i was re-employed in a hospital where the benefits were ok. so the last treatment that he had was in march. so 5 weeks ago he told me he had chest pain, thought that it was stress related to his back, but eventually ended up in er, had a cardiac work-up, then the cath lab where they placed 2 stents and then saw the ortho doctor. he had an mri done the day before the cath lab. the ortho guy told him that he had a disc compressing his spinal column which was slowly paralysing him, if not sooner rather than later, so he had to have an op. they protected the stents with iv, heparin and then integrilin. had the op, bone grafted and replced one disc and repaired the next one down. was in hospital for 3 weeks, and then a week later was back in, as he was vomitting, and hypotensive, so they scoped him and he has gastritis and they gave him a gastric emptying series and his stomach is slow to empy---narcotic induced. so we are now at home recovering, a lot better than last discharge but still rough and week. he has to literally have a soft bland diet and plenty of meds.
want to thank madwife and her family who are our rock, betty boop who flew to be with us, scotnurse and english nurse and silvedragon and siri, who are all there for us, and anyone that i forgot to throw in. a big hug to you all.....