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Ridiculous 24 hours...

Wittpilot

Wittpilot

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So my little girl had to go to the Children's Hospital in Dayton late last night... She has been plagued by kidney infections and the local hospitals weren't really doing much... so she has been there for over a day, then I had all four of my wisdom teeth out this morning.... so here I sit viewing my favorite website in the entire world with pain-killers and bloody gauze and an incredible urge to spit!!!

so far going on 22 hours with no food....... man am I frigging starving....

-witt
 
Okay, I got a wisdom tooth story for ya'....

My comm chief was deployed down to Grenada as a Company commo SGT (he was a SSG). During part of the operation they were clearing a house when they ran into a member of the PRA who threw a grenade at them. My guy, having spent two tours in Viet Nam (I know, just a SSG, but he had a break in service), one in the 173rd Abn Inf, was not intimidated by grenades, picked it up, and tossed it out the window of the house they were in. It exploded after leaving the window (deafening everyone in the room).

An hour or so later, my SSG suddenly starts throwing up blood, then passes out. They strip him naked, check him all over for a wound (entry or exit) and can find nothing. They run him down on a stretcher to the aid station, where our Med Svc Officer takes one look at him, decides "this guys dying", and starts to check him all over...oddly though, his pulse and BP seemed fine.

Anyway, after looking him over no one can find a wound, when suddenly my SSG starts choking. Quite rightly they immediately perform a procedure to clear his mouth (prevent him from accidentally swallowing his tongue -- he was still unconscious). While they are clearing his mouth the Med Svc officers feels something on his fingers. He looks back into the guys mouth and sees a tiny little bit of metal buried in his gum in the back of his mouth (where there are few nerve endings), then he figures it out....all that's happened is a piece of the grenade has gone into his mouth, which he undoubtedly had opened, and he's been bleeding down the back of his throat, which has made him sick to his stomach, making him throw up, which in turn has dehydrated him....and he's passed out.

Well, that's it.

Okay, so the wisdom teeth...right, almost forgot....

They ship my NCO back to Ft. Bragg, Womack Army Hospital...where they send him into dental surgery. Doc takes a pair of forceps, reach right in, and pulls that little piece of metal out....not even any anesthetic. Then he notices my poor little sergeant still has all his wisdom teeth.

Whizzz-Bang, under my NCO goes, and the doc then proceeds to yank all 4 of his wisdom teeth!!

He had his picture taken with President Reagan a few weeks later...he still looked like a chipmunk.

So, I hope your girl is feeling better and so's your mouth. At least you can say they are gone...and they don't grow back. One other thing...don't get a dry socket. That's a BAAADDDD thing!!
 
I just get so frustrated with the medical profession these days... My grandmother was in the hospital a few weeks ago, and she spent 23 hours in the ER because there were no rooms for her... We take my daughter to the local hospital and they do some tests and send her home.... we take her to Children's the next day and they tell us she should have been transported to Children's the night before from the other hospital!! oh, and the wait in the ER at Children's was 6 hours! Unfortunately, or fortunately as the case may be, my daugher's heart rate was through the roof so they moved her to the top of the list.... next time I am just calling the squad!!!

-witt
 
Wittpilot said:
I just get so frustrated with the medical profession these days... My grandmother was in the hospital a few weeks ago, and she spent 23 hours in the ER because there were no rooms for her... We take my daughter to the local hospital and they do some tests and send her home.... we take her to Children's the next day and they tell us she should have been transported to Children's the night before from the other hospital!! oh, and the wait in the ER at Children's was 6 hours! Unfortunately, or fortunately as the case may be, my daugher's heart rate was through the roof so they moved her to the top of the list.... next time I am just calling the squad!!!

-witt
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I agree...don't get me started on insurance either. Our provider was pretty much on the fence on whether my surgery I had two summers ago was necessary or cosmetic. They offered to pay for psychological counseling to help me be less self conscious (pfftt...) My parents got so frustrated trying to get approval, they just went ahead with the surgery. Luckily they approved it and reimbursed us for the costs ( after an MRI, echo-cardiogram, stress test, and ekg). I was spoiled though, after being in a children's hospital (I was 15 @ the time), I don't think an adult's hospital would be any fun. They gave me sno-cones, playstation in the room, and all-you-can eat pain killers LOL :friday: (just kidding!). Anyhoo...get well soon!
 
i sure hope your little one recovers quickly. i know first hand how tough a kidney infection can be. as for the wisdom tooth, i feel ya dog...:costumes:

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I had my wisoms out while I was in the Air Force - as inpatient surgery!

Day one, check into base hospital, spend the night in one of those tie-in-the-back gowns.

Day two, get up, start to put on uniform, get told nope, I'm staying in the gown. (Great! :banghead:) Ride wheelchair to ambulance, then ride that to base dental clinic. Get wheeld in, sit with rest of the people who just happen to be dressed normally. I really feel stylish now! Finally get back into the room with the dentis, who turns out to be the senior dental surgeon and a "full bird" colonel. They stick a sugar water IV in my forearm. It's my first IV ever and I'm scared "spitless." He tells me he's going to put Demerol and Valium into the IV. I'll be awake, but felling no pain. Oh, the Demerol may burn a little at the needle site, or around my elbow. So, in goes the Demerol. I'm shaking uncontrollably at this point. I start to feel the burning at the needle. Here's the conversation:

Me: I f-feel it burning.
Doc: Where?
Me: At the need... Oh WOW!

Don't remember much after that. I don't remember the Valium giong in, but I do remember hearing a sound like crunching ice as he dug one out. I also remember having a mouth full of gauze and seeing him walk away. I asked if he was done, and he said yes, then asked if I wanted to see them. Each one looked like the size of my fist, but all I could manage was a stoned "OK" as I drifted back into lala land. I spent a second night at the base hospital and went back to duty the day after that armed with a bottle of Tylenol #3.
 
After seeing the faces of my high school peers who had their wisdoms out...I decided to forgo that ritual and still have all four of my wisdoms....and I'll be 40 in April.

Just want to touch on the long waits in the ER. My wife is a nurse, and up until she was diagnosed with a brain tumor the size of two golf balls in July, she worked in the ER of the local hospital. Yes, the ER has long waits...just like ER's every where. The reason for those long waits is not because of poor staffing or the collapse of the medical profession. They are due to people coming to the ER for things that are not EMERGENCIES. One gal my wife has seen many many times always uses an ambulance to get to the ER....once for poison ivy, once for vaginal yeast infection, once for a pregnancy test, once for a VD screening, once because she had a hang nail. There are a squadron of regulars who come into the ER complaining of back pain just so they can get a "Home Pack" of Vicodin. One gal came in complaining that her crouch smelled odd....my wife wanted to tell her to go home and wash her hoo haa, but hospital policy mandates that she be polite to the "customer"...so she helped a doctor examine the gal to find out why her hoo haa smelled odd....it just needed cleaned and the doctor told her to go home, take a long bath, use lots of soap and water and wash her hoo haa.

The next time you are in an ER and waiting and waiting and waiting...look around at all the people sitting there with you....how many of them appear to be having medical emergencies and how many of them appear to be there simply because they need a work excuse for the next day because they drank too much over the weekend....yeah, that happens a LOT.


OBIO
 
One gal my wife has seen many many times always uses an ambulance to get to the ER.
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Yep, the old Red Light Taxi. People figured out that if you come in the door horizontal you get seen quicker.

My local hospital set us an area called "Express Care" for the less serious problems like sprained ankles and colds. Keeps the ER more available for the real emergencies.

However after being an EMT for nearly 12 years, I do seem to get higher priority "handling" than the average Joe who comes in the door.

Not that I mind....


Brian
 
Well I'm sorry to hear that Witt. Now that they've pulled yer wisdom teeth, don't reckon you'll be getting any wiser now ...

tsk tsk ... :)

Not that I have any more pull than anyone else with the man upstairs, I'll put a good word in for your daughter too!
 
OBIO said:
The next time you are in an ER and waiting and waiting and waiting...look around at all the people sitting there with you....how many of them appear to be having medical emergencies and how many of them appear to be there simply because they need a work excuse for the next day because they drank too much over the weekend....yeah, that happens a LOT.


OBIO
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Actually, funny you should say that.... I know exactly what you are talking about and indeed is probably the biggest problems with waits and such.... My wife said when she was in the local ER Saturday night, there was this woman who I guess just had to be in the ER to get looked at for something... and was asking to be moved to the top of the list because she was either very sick, in a lot of pain, or something bad...and yet, she had to take a smoke break every 5 min. while she was waiting in the ER.... this meant she had to leave the waiting room and wait outside in the 30 degree weather outside and in the rain to smoke!!!!!!! every 5 min!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unbelievable!

-witt
 
The wife and daughter got home late last night... The Doc's think that these infections my daughter has been getting over the last 4 months have actually all been the same infection just going dormant for a bit, then coming back... so they have her on several antibiotics and gave us several instructions on how to keep her kidneys healthy...

The giant holes in my jaw where my wisdom teeth once were are both disgusting looking, and painful still... still no solid foods yet as it is just too painful... lots of tomato soup and mashed potatoes... oh and ice cream!!!

Thanks for all the well wishes.... its really tough being a parent... I just don't know how all you older parents make it....it is certainly the biggest challenge in life.... but its a fun one...

-witt


pic of the daughter in question on Christmas...
 
Wittpilot said:
Thanks for all the well wishes.... its really tough being a parent... I just don't know how all you older parents make it....it is certainly the biggest challenge in life.... but its a fun one...

-witt


pic of the daughter in question on Christmas...
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the rewards (of parenting) are huge, when measured with the right yardstick.
your daughter is adorable! the whole reason God gave me sons instead of daughters is because he knows they'd have me wrapped around their finger from the 1st moment.
 
Glad to hear she's doing better Witt... she sure is a cutie.

Wisom teeth can sure be a pain.... good to hear you got them out ok Witt. But I guess that's why I'm not so wise. I never had any.... thank God. They dissolved on their own and disappeared.
 
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