Glad you’re in comfortable surroundings again
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 .
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.
do you mind if I update the title to say that?
Welcome home!
To say what, that I’m home? Sure.
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?
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.
I’m wearing the cardiac monitor now. I may have to wear it up to two weeks. What a pain in the ass.
You must be wearing it wrong. (j/k)
Glad you’re on the mend.
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.
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.
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.
You have my complete sympathy.
I just heard from my doctor. The prescriptions are all taken care of, so problems solved.
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.
Let there be rejoicing.
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
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.