Electrogastrograms are a thing.
Don’t you mean a TLA ?
So a translumin-something angioplasty as a treatment maybe?
TIA does stand for ‘Transient ischemic attack’.
Jugular Electro-Logarithmic Laser Occlusion device.
That might actually help me.
Wonder if my insurance covers that therapy?
I honestly thought that this thread would be about Yum! Foods (Pepsi, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, &c.) now catering hospital food.
I didn’t have a fast food job when I was a teenager. I worked in the food service department at a hospital.
It actually was pretty decent food, considering. Bonus because as a growing teenager, I could scarf leftovers headed to pot wash all night.
Yikes on the whole experience!
I wore a Zio for a week earlier this summer. Mildly amusing as my hand would encounter it at random times, surprising me. No chest-shaving was required (though the tech who glued it on did scrub my skin with what felt like Brillo). There’s an app you can use for logging events, if you don’t want to carry booklet with you.
Glad to hear you’re feeling better, @Czarcasm.
So that’s why the local hospital’s cafeteria was replaced with a food court! There’s also a Subway off by itself, which is my go-to when visiting.
The “Zio Experience” lasted one day. Without consulting me I was sent a device that was glued to my chest, and told that I was to bath very minimally, take it easy and not sweat a lot. I am a full-time freakin’ custodian at a very rough school. I need to bathe a lot, I am going to sweat a lot…and at about 10 pm last night the damn thing just fell off my chest and down my lest pants leg.
Ugh! Yeah, not the best option, I guess. I was told to basically reglue it immediately if it fell off, which it never did (then again, I am not any of the things you describe yourself as).
I must tell you in school the custodians held rock star status! I still remember all of us lining up with enthusiasm for the custodian’s yearbook signature at the end of the year.
This isn’t that kind of school. They don’t so much “graduate”-they age out of the system, hopefully with enough talent to operate a toaster oven…but more likely they will be taken care of by relatives.
Glad you’re o.k.!
I have Kaiser, too, and I had to spend overnight in the hospital earlier this year. I had gone to the ER, and after checking me out they wanted to do a colonoscopy, so they just checked me in and gave me the damned prep. But they also gave me a nearly liquid diet, so I didn’t get to sample the actual hospital food.
I had an unplanned hospital stay earlier this year. I didn’t have much of an appetite but the food they served was extremely good.
Our local St Vincent Hospital offers menu style food. There’s a window of time to call and order. Otherwise they send a default tray.
I was surprised with the fruit options for breakfast. Grapes, cantaloupe, orange slices etc.
Having a choice is a big improvement.
Our other hospitals still have the traditional trays. You get what they send. I was at UAMS in August for surgery. I used Door Dash a couple times when the tray didn’t look appetizing.
Yeah, pleased to hear you’re OK.
I had to wear one of those things for a week after a couple of blackouts. Did they give you the date-and-time chart to list symptoms so that they could be matched to cardiac events?
As all that happened to me was two blackouts, I had no symptoms - so I used it to record actions that were going to produce a change - like (eg) cycling up a little bastard of a hill as hard as I could (my thinking there being, if anything is going to show up then maybe it’ll be when I’m stressed).
The most embarrassing thing? I was having a few beers but, for some reason, I was sitting at the kitchen table rather than my usual armchair. I fell asleep and fell off the chair… which I dutifully recorded on the chart.
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I’m so glad you called and got it checked out. I’m even gladder that it resolved.
Yeah, those monitors are a pain. Because my skin hated adhesive, they gave me a new, gentler adhesive to try with my monitor. No go. First, it didn’t adhere, plus I got the contact dermatitis. They wanted me to try again but I showed them all the perfectly round, red, raised spots on my body and they just revised their opinions and wished me luck.
My dad had a heart monitor, and it was setup where he could shower just fine. I wonder why yours couldn’t.