Thank You !

[Jim Bim]

Hi all

Here I am at nearly 3 years since my life turned upside down due to my sodding dentist infecting me with Endocarditis, and for some reason I have chosen this moment to say an enormous THANK YOU to all the world’s healthcare givers and nurses.

I had been suffering for 6 months with increasing amounts of weakness, sleepiness, and overall physical and mental degradation until one day - DEAD!! My heart had been so badly damaged tat the cards when I arrived in hospital actually thanked me for doing, as they had never seen anyone with such a damaged heart actually alive - barely, at that time! And yes - I became a subject of a research paper....

I was just remembering when I was first admitted to ER and spent those first few days being resuscitated, checked and tested, because of course the tests for Endo require up to 5 days of development and growth before a positive and definitive diagnosis can be made, and I recall being frustrated when I called for a nurse or a doctor to come, and they didn’t come immediately - some times for quite a while.

But as time went by and I started to properly understand what work really went-on and was occupying their time; 

- the testing,

- the committee meetings with doctors and nurses to go through each single patient’s file to ascertain the best way to treat and look after the patient,

- keeping those diagnoses bang up to date to reflect the latest test results,

- ensuring that the whole team knew of these updates,

- and on,

- and on,

- and on...

At THAT point I stopped being an awkward and impatient patient, and life sort of got calmer as a result!

So again - THANK YOU!!

[Rodman]

Please tell me how the dentist infected you?  Have you read the latest AHA guidelines?

[amoLucia]

The OP hasn't been back since posting. I think I'm detecting a weeee bit of displaced anger. Curious if OP is HC or a civilian.