#then the kidney infection that sent me to the er

[cerbreus]

Starting to feel like I have been beset by a white woman etsy curse based on how this year has been for me.

[cosmiicfairy]

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[deewithani]

Just a quick PSA:

If a cat bites you and breaks the skin, wash the wound with soap and water for 5 minutes, and then seek medical attention.

Seriously.

Cat bites can get very infected very fast.

I'm typing this after taking my 2nd round of Augmentin in a 7 day regimen, and I did not know how serious it could be.

Slightly related: I would like to send a shout out to my kidney for releasing a kidney stone yesterday that sent me to the ER where I told them "Oh, btw, my cat bit me."

[avada-kedavra-bitch-187]

In hospital yay😭

Apologies if this don’t make sense i like just got home from hospital a little bit ago and still feel some effects of morphine (the pic and words above pic i posted while on morphine😂)

They gave my 2 things of morphine while i was there as well as something for nausea and toradol when left

My nephew when i came in my moms room crying goes are you kidding i thought we did this already and my dad goes did what and he goes the crying (i cry sometimes and one time I’ve cried like a month or 2 before because if pain(we thinking it was kidney stones this kinda confirms it and they just taking they sweet time)) i was offended but i thought it was sort of funny but i was hurting to bad to laugh at it

*got sick* a good bit

Got *sick* because of pain

Was freezing my ass of the whole time

I mean my teethe were chattering

My doc Ron looks like Jimmy Palmer (older version) i told him too (when he got wheelchair so he could take me to where my mom was pulling up closer to the hospital) and he goes I’ll have to look him up and see what he looks like (pretty sure doctors and nurses heard cause they started laughing)

I had a CT slam with dye on my abdomen

I was in so much pain i couldn’t rlly sleep even with the morphine

Was there from about 10:15pm-1:30am

Sunday March 19, 2023- Monday March 20,2023

And not to mention we live like 10 min away from hospital and a lot of roads were closed so it took longer

If i had to go to surgery if it was a gallbladder or appendix thing or to get the kidney stone removed i would have to go even further for a hospital that can do stuff like that

Couldn’t have any water and it sucks cause my mouth was dry as hell and it’s worse cause of *getting sick* i could have ice chips which did nothing and made my mouth even drier

Pain started at like 9:25

It was so much fucking pain and on top of that was on my period and i have PCOS so the cramps were worse and then got kidney stones on top of that

Can’t take certain meds cause if it so im just gonna get off all of them (it’s a lot like 9 a day 5-6 in morning 3 at night) until Thursday (certain meds can react to the dye they gave me for CT)

I have kidney stones on both kidneys some aren’t moving but the one causing me trouble is the one on the right and it is 2mm so they said i could pass it and made me finish my IV and gave me toradol and sent me on my way

One of my sisters was mad no one told her i was in hospital

My mom took pics of me while i was like high on morphine😂👍😅

I didn’t even rlly sleep when i had the morphine and my mom was shocked a couple times she thought i was asleep but rlly wasn’t

I was so cold when i left for CT my hands were so pale and could (it was like you could kinda tell by the nails too) hear my teeth chattering. He made me sign something and i almost got my mom to do it cause i didn’t thing i could (the 2 blankets they gave me did nothing for me)

Also used sick bags and had to bring home 2 more just incase

When i got home first thing i did was brush teeth and drink a while thing of water also ate just a lil (cuz all my food that was in my system is gone) before i went to bed like they didn’t have mouth was or anything i could use to get the *sick* taste out my mouth

IT WAS GREAT😂

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Legit had to go back to the ER Nov 12 again because i was in pain and was “sick🤢” because i had kidney stones but honestly it felt a lil dif so i though it was a cyst on overies rupturing. And i had an infection so that sucked

[depression-permanent]

I had another really rough day. My mom didn’t want to drive me to get my infection looked at so she ubered me instead and sent me to the hospital not like a…. Health clinic like what I had been asking her to bring me to.

I feel like no one cares. Not even the hospital staff cared. They didn’t take me seriously. I told them about my Ed and they still didn’t take my kidney pain seriously. They found nothing wrong with me n discharged me and told me I prob just strained a muscle.

Y’all I’ve literally had a double kidney infection last year and it felt like this before I ignored it n it got worse. Like I literally have to be in excruciating, pin-hole vision inducing agony to be taken seriously.

My sister hates me for needing to go to the doc anyways bc it would’ve gotten in the way of her seeing her little fucking boy toy. She didn’t even come home from work today anyways so I would’ve been fucked. I just wish my mom came with me to the er.

[clearmentalitykryptonite]

Remember when my mascara caused Emma's eye to swell. You got defensive (it wasn't you) right?!? But it smelled of gas. When the hot water was "shut off" but it wasn't you and I asked how is the bathroom hot. You refused to tell me but I figured it out. (YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE) That in fact was you no denying it. When the internet was cut off multiple times and you did that look of I'm innocent I dare you to accuse me and kept asking me if I want them to come switch out the box trying to make me feel like I was being stalked and unsafe. What about when you drugged my honey peanut butter then our son comes and tells me not to drink that so I don't die (he was cring and terrified) and the smirk on your face as you trail behind him to watch how I react. Then you can play "innocent". The time we had dinner and you drugged my food and then I went to er finally because my kidneys were hurting. I was there all night, getting skipped over just hoping the blood work would say something my eyes were literally yellow and blood shot. But they said everything was fine and sent me home. I told them I thought I had a kidney infection because I was so damn trauma bonded and scared. How before that you always said I'm not poisoning you and I always said drugged me and you laughed at me and said same thing. How you would leave the meat out and it would rotten and you'd be like oh thought you couldn't smell it. How you got exfoliating honey handsoap and made it seem like you did something to the lotion and caused my hands to crack and bleed. How you put something the the shampoo to make my hair fallout. How I'm assuming your mom paid someone to put sleeping stuff in the kids icecream and (possibly) the whole chucky cheese incident. How your mom bullied me and would talk shit to anyone who would listen. Make it seem like I'm being followed and stalked. (She likes the numbers) 3 especially which is Your FUCKING BIRTHDAY. Me saying mind your business because I remember how she was with the Stef incident and wasn't sure who to trust. The first time we broke up (according to you a break) I kissed someone. You were abusive and controlling and i was mad and fell for any comfort. The second time (I) broke up with you, you begged me to tell your mom that it was so I could date girls and find out if this is what I wanted but it was you being controlling and abusive and throwing me down and refusing to let me go and threating to kill yourself. Right after the car accident I broke up with my boyfriend. While on pain medication the day after the accident on was on the floor and you were telling me how you were there and he wasnt and you could treat me better and you stood above me as I ended it with him. Look how well that turned out. The third time well, the third and final time there is a whole police report about that. I loved you I truly did. I'm just thankful I had friends who helped through all of this and MORE and they probably don't even know it. Since I have been scared and isolating myself because of you and probably most likely your family. (You know telling me how your dad said does he have to send his people). A THREAT LIKE IM THE FUCKING PROBLEM! I wasnt going to saying anything and let it go but you guys just like to tell your side. Like I haven't been though enough. I'm done protecting people who wouldn't do the same for me. I'm important too. It's time I realize that. What goes around comes around. Good luck with your karma.

[fucklessmuck]

I fucking passed out 2 days ago and ended up in the ER. But I'm so fucking fat they just sent me home bc they didn't think anything was wrong w me. Blood test came back and I was malnourished...but there's also like signs of kidney damage or infection....

I can't get sick yet....I haven't even enjoyed the fruit of my labors. I need to get better at restricting and working out. I got some protein shakes to help w the nutrition. I need to be skinny this summer.

I will be thin. I will

[ilixisys]

Tired..

I am so exhausted and tired of this pain and yes I am talking physical pain this time. About three weeks ago I was diagnosed with a kidney stone and since I am born with only one kidney they had to put in a stent to keep the kidney healthy. And for the first 2 weeks I thought: "Oh this is ok no pain" only downside is totally and utterly no bladder control what-so-ever.

Now in week 3 out of five I curse this thing the pain is excruciating! So bad that I called the ER and got called in immediately because they feared an infection. Just to get the message.

"No miss, as far as we can see on every test we have performed you have no infection and your kidney is fine it's values looks great so we're gonna stick to the original plan and do the surgery in 2,5 weeks, however we will cultivate one of the samples to be sure and if anything odd comes up we'll call and let you know if we'll do any changes"

So they sent me home with a prescription for tremadol and adviced me to only take those if absolutely necessary and to don't drive or operate any machinery.

Duuude, you don't have to tell me that! I am afraid of painkillers or any pills actually. I only take those I've tried before and doesn't make me sick or high.

So the downsides again it's hard to find a good way to sit or lay down to sleep because of the pain and still in week 3 I struggle with almost no bladder control.

So even with my phobia of hospitals I can't wait for this to end and be over with...

[mylifemydiary]

37 weeks tomorrow

6/15/22

I could not have predicted how swimming lessons would go.  I took my son that first day, and I was so excited.  There were 8 kids, 6 little girls and my son and another boy.  The other boy was crying from the beginning.  He wanted to go home and cried for his mom the. entire. time.  They sat my son right next to him, and I was worried it would rub off.  But no, that’s not what happened.  My toddler got dipped into the water and then sat on the ledge with the other kids and got cold, and it was all over.  He did not want to get back in the water.  He screamed and cried.  Even the cry baby got over it and did what he was supposed to.  Not one of the little girls complained, despite physically shivering.  We gave up 20 minutes into the 30 minute lesson, and to my son’s defense, his skin was ice cold when I finally wrapped him up in a blanket.  I guess 9 am is not a good time for swimming.  The following day I had a doctor’s appointment so he had to miss it, and the next day I just gave up and didn’t even take him.  The fourth and final day of the first week my husband and I both took him, and my husband even sat with him on the ledge with the other kids, but it was a big nope about 5 minutes in.  He was cold and wasn’t having it.  

I worked that night from 5-8, and when I got home I felt like all of my muscles ached.  It felt like I had worked out super hard and all of my muscles were fatigued and achey.  I went to sleep, or tried to, and in the morning woke up to my heart racing as if I was on a treadmill walking on an incline.  I had a slight temp, 99.7, and I pulled out the doppler just to make sure my baby had a heart beat.  He did.  My blood pressure was a little high, but what was most concerning was my heart rate bpm which was 155 and I was literally laying in bed.  Everything hurt, my arms, shoulders, neck, thighs, hips.  I called the after hours nurse and she suggested I go to the hospital.  So we dropped my toddler off and to the hospital we went.  We spent 6 hours there, they tested me for every upper raspatory thing I could have possibly had. Everything came back negative.  Except for a UTI.  I had blood and bacteria in my urine.  So they treated me with some antibiotics through my IV, which took the nurse one shot and she was in, more on that later, and sent me home.  I was still achey and miserable and could barely lift my arms over my shoulders.  My husband had to help me in and out of the car, I could barely walk, and I needed help getting dressed.  I was useless in my own body and I hated it.  I had no appetite, I was trying to drink water but other than that I didn’t want to eat.  I stayed in bed for two days practically.  I went to see the specialist on Monday morning for a pre-planned appointment and they were no help.  It was a new doctor who I had never met, and her suggestion was to stop taking the Tylenol that was keeping me sane, to get a fever so the ER would do something about me.  I even had them do another urine test and they forgot to give me the results.  I thought I had an ear infection and asked them to check, but nobody did.  I kept taking the Tylenol and tried to rest.  Tuesday morning I called my doctor’s office and the nurse advised me to go to the ER.  She said if I was in that much pain just to go.  So I did.  They did a sono for kidney stones, thinking maybe that was the source of my pain.  But no.  It was still a UTI.  They gave me a drink and some Tylenol in my IV and sent me home again.  Oh and it took 3 nurses, 2 blown veins, and 5 sticks total to get an IV started this time.  It was awful.  I cried so many times over the course of those 5 days, because I was weak and helpless and in so much pain and nobody could help me.  Finally, Wednesday I started to feel better and the pain started to ease.  I went to the specialist on Monday and saw that same useless doctor, and they made zero mention to the fact that my blood pressure is high now, I’m super swollen, and gained 8 pounds in one week of no doubt water weight.  I’ve been tracking my BP for about a week now and I’m going to ask my doctor about inducing tomorrow.  I was hoping the full moon last night would start some contractions, but nothing.  

[birf]

Doctors are still forever on thin ice with me after going to the ER with a combined kidney and yeast infection and they said they saw nothing and sent me home with a shit ton of opioids

[greelin]

dash stretch warning and medical talk ahead!!!

hey so! milo here! broke chronically AND mentally ill trans dude y’all know and possibly tolerate here! i really. really hate to do this and heavily went back and forth on it but the past month has been hell for me medically. our insurance went bust like a month before all this bc we couldn’t afford it due to covid. i had to do a trip to urgent care a few weeks ago, they assessed that i had a UTI, put me on meds, and i.. got infinitely worse. vomiting multiple times a day and a fever of over 101. to the point that my mother had to take me to the ER. they admitted me for several days bc the infection had spread to my kidneys and i was septic.

it was hell!! i have a lot of trauma wrt medical stuff (i was in the hospital for a month when i was six bc i’d contracted encephalitis/meningitis and it was. not a good time) and i was by myself (understandably with everything going on with the virus), and i was already super dazed and out of it and afraid but that didn’t help. at all.

they did manage to mostly clear everything up! i was on a lot of fluids and rosephin. they sent me home with about a week’s worth of antibiotics. i was supposed to follow up with a doctor in a week, as is standard procedure.

my stomach HATED me for that week. still does! i was having multiple issues that made it difficult to do anything besides, for lack of better, cleaner terms, either be in bed or in the bathroom. i got severely dehydrated. i started having pains again. not the same area, but still. massive amount of pain. my fever came back.

SO we went back to urgent care.... where literally all they did was take my vitals then call an ambulance bc my heart rate was over 160 and my blood pressure was super low and i genuinely was about to pass out. ($100 for that 15 min of waiting in the waiting room + 10 min of being in a room laying down bc i felt like i was gonna die, btw, but lol).

ambulance rides in the us are notoriously expensive, esp for poor fucks like me who don’t have insurance. but at the time i didn’t have a choice bc there was a chance of me going septic again and i wasn’t about to uh. die.

it was a deeply distressing experience but thankfully they did blood work, a urinalyses, another CT scan, put me on fluids, and i was discharged from the ER within several hours.

i know it’s a bad time for everyone rn and i feel immensely awful even putting this out there, i just.. do not know what to do rn lol. i am uninsured. i an unemployed and could not finish out my final two weeks at my previous job bc i was hospitalized (the reason i quit being i just moved and the commute wouldn’t be worth it ultimately), and the small amount of money i do have saved up has to go to like.. rent. car. mental health medication (that’s now $60 for half the amount i used to get for $5 🥴). i don’t know when i’ll be able to find a job rn due to my health being Everywhere at the moment + covid being a thing.

we received the first bill for my first hospital stint ($746 only but my mother jokes that that’s probably. for like. the motrin they gave me in the waiting room when i got there lmao) but we know there are gonna be tons more. they did multiple CT scans while i was there. tons of blood work. a lot of pain medication.

at this point i’m just.. super stressed. i know there’s tons of shit going on and i have absolutely nothing to offer in return, but if anyone happens to have like. a spare $2 or something to send my way, it would help immensely. all of this shit hit at the worse possible time, as life often seems to work, and i just... idk!

please, PLEASE, no one feel obligated to share this or help in any way; i just.. am super desperate and scared rn about how i’m going to get through everything with this much debt and no job. i’m sorry for the word vomit and wasting anyone’s time, it’s just.. a really hard time for me rn. i tried to apply for insurance but i haven’t heard anything back and i don’t know if i’ll be accepted

thank you for reading!!!! sorry again.

[ketchs-mistress]

Trigger Warning: picture of needle and hospital talk, gallbladder removal

Welp your girl has had a hell of a week! So for years I had these horrible muscle spasms in my back where I was vomitting violently and having loose bowel movements and just all over painful times with it. Well me and my aunt were in AL this past weekend to visit family and Sunday morning we were going to leave and go home. Well I had my muscle spasms and vomit as usual. My aunt convinced me to go to the ER. I was sure that they wouldn't solve anything and I would just get sent home with pain meds.

Nope! The ER doctor ordered a urine test and some blood work. She thought it was my kidney, but I told her I knew what a kidney stone was and that pain wasn't it. So my aunt told her about my gallstones. Doc ordered an MRI. They found a blockage in my bile duct.

So I was admitted, they wouldn't even let me go home due to the chance of infection. So Monday, March 28th I had an endoscopy to remove the blockage and then Tuesday, March 29th I had my gallbladder removed. Both surgeries were a success. And I'm finally home, resting.

[katytheinspiredworkaholic]

Hey everyone

So I spent all last night in the ER, what I thought was the flu was actually a severe kidney infection, and by the time I had gotten there and tested they were already suffering damage. I wasn't quite at renal failure, but I was close. I'm home now resting up, hopefully I'll see improvement over the next few days and I'll be back online again. Otherwise I'll be back in the hospital this weekend.

Thank you everyone who reached out and sent me sweet messages and asks. I'll try to answer them over the next few days. I'm on bedrest for a while so I'm hoping I'll have some time.

Take care of yourselves everyone. Much love 💕💕💕