# I'm in the ER (posted 2023-01-31, now home) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132 "2023-02-01T01:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/41 "2023-02-07T03:05:00Z")
Glad you’re in comfortable surroundings again ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/42 "2023-02-07T04:03:49Z")
Well, that was scary. Did they repeat the imaging to determine whether it’s an artifact, or they just going to assume it was a stroke? Best of luck to you. You’ve had more than your share of health woes . ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/43 "2023-02-07T12:09:26Z")
Welcome home, @davidm. I’m glad you are home. I was recently discharged and will also be following up with my cardiologist and cardiac surgeon. So happy to be home! I shared my experience here. > **[On Tuesday: aortic aneurysm and tear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tuesday-aortic-aneurysm-and-tear/978961)** > > Right now it is early Saturday afternoon. At 4pm on Tuesday it felt like Muhammad Ali was punching me smack in the middle of my thorax, rapid fire like, 8-10x. It hurt like hell. I crumpled over, and literally cried out, “Oh God, please, not now!... ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/44 "2023-02-07T17:38:00Z")
do you mind if I update the title to say that? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/45 "2023-02-07T18:39:55Z")
Welcome home! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/46 "2023-02-13T16:13:14Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > do you mind if I update the title to say that? To say what, that I’m home? Sure. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/47 "2023-02-21T23:23:45Z")
Missed this until today, so I’m gonna give it a bump. First of all, hope things are going okay for you now. Second, don’t you think you’ve spent enough time in hospital that last couple years? Third, almost the same thing happened to my wife about a month ago. She woke up off balance and the vision in her right eye was messed up. Sort of like having deja vu all the time because her right eye was moving separately from the left. I scooped her up still in her nightgown, tossed her in the car and headed for the emergency room. Got in immediately, thank Dog. Blood tests, x-rays, CT scan all before I could see her again, about two hours. Turns out she had a small stroke behind her right eye. It was so small, they actually had to call in a specialist to find it because it wasn’t apparent to the ER doctors. He actually told us if you are going to have a stroke, have this kind. She stayed overnight while they continued to run tests every few hours. When she was released the next day, they set her up to see a vision therapist to help get her right eye back to normal. She could not look to her left with her right eye. We thought she’d be going to therapy for a few weeks, but the first day she went they cleared her. Vision back to normal. Two days after the emergency run, she was good as new. She has to take a blood thinner now, but otherwise she is fine. Sounds like you had similar luck and I wish you continued good health. No coming back in a year with another ER story, OK? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/48 "2023-02-28T09:47:44Z")
They had me follow up with a cardiologist. He wants me to wear a monitor for a few days. There’s a waiting list for monitors so I don’t have it yet. The saga continues. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/49 "2023-03-10T03:54:17Z")
I’m wearing the cardiac monitor now. I may have to wear it up to two weeks. What a pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/50 "2023-03-10T03:55:08Z")
You must be wearing it wrong. (j/k) Glad you’re on the mend. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/51 "2023-03-13T14:05:07Z")
And now I’m stuck in prescription hell, and trying to straighten it out ends up with me stuck in on hold phone hell. Dealing with being sick is not for the sick. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/52 "2023-03-13T20:41:20Z")
It’s been seven hours. Are you off the phone yet? Or are you waiting for them to call back. I’ve never been stuck that long, but my DIL has. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/53 "2023-03-13T21:16:43Z")
There seems to be something wrong with their phones. Sometimes I get dead air. Sometimes I get stuck in a menu loop. And sometimes I get put on hold for an eternity. I just tried again and now their office is closed. I’m going to run out of medicine and the pharmacy says that the doctor can’t refill it and that I need to contact him. I just left a message for them on the online patient portal but that says to please wait up to 48 hours for a response. This is frustrating as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/54 "2023-03-14T23:31:56Z")
You have my complete sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/55 "2023-03-14T23:49:57Z")
I just heard from my doctor. The prescriptions are all taken care of, so problems solved. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/56 "2023-03-14T23:50:16Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > ’m wearing the cardiac monitor now. I may have to wear it up to two weeks. What a pain in the ass. Yeah,l it is. I had to wear one again several months ago. Cardio dept & neurologists lost the records that I had it done in 2019 and no issues were found. So I wore it again (for a month) and no issues. But cardiologist insisted I have a cardiac loop put in just to be positive I don’t/won’t have A Fib. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/57 "2023-03-14T23:52:11Z")
Let there be rejoicing. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/58 "2023-03-15T05:06:31Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > Yeah,l it is. I had to wear one again several months ago. Cardio dept & neurologists lost the records that I had it done in 2019 and no issues were found. > > So I wore it again (for a month) and no issues. > > But cardiologist insisted I have a cardiac loop put in just to be positive I don’t/won’t have A Fib. I had to Google “cardiac loop”. That sounds like a real inconvenience. Do you have to charge it somehow? ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/59 "2023-03-15T10:17:41Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I had to Google “cardiac loop”. That sounds like a real inconvenience. Do you have to charge it somehow? Nope. I don’t have to do a thing. I think it lasts up to 5 years (per hospital). I have the app for it on my phone and it syncs with that and the company who keeps track of the signals. No need for the bedside recorder. Installing it was only a 5-10 minute procedure.Can’t even tell it’s there > **[Reveal LINQ ICM System - Getting a Heart Monitor | Medtronic](https://www.medtronic.com/us-en/patients/treatments-therapies/insertable-heart-monitors/getting-monitor/reveal-linq-icm-system.html)** > > The Reveal LINQ insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) is a small device that can watch your heart for abnormal heartbeats for up to three years. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132/60 "2023-03-21T20:42:20Z")
The monitor is gone now. They had said that I would wear it for two weeks unless they saw what they were looking for before that, in which case they would contact me. I wore it the full two weeks so hopefully that means that they didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. They’ll call me in a few days with a final report. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-er-posted-2023-01-31-now-home/979132.md?page=4)