Oh, fuck, here we go again

[gekkogecko]

I just talked to my girlfriend's husband. She's back in the hospital, admitted from the ER last night. She's been in a lot of pain & bleeding for the past week. They're trying to give her a transfusion; it took 19 sticks for them to get an IV into her just for the pain meds-2mg Demerol per 3 hours. Insufficient flow for transfusion, they're going to have to bring an anesthesiologist & put her under tomorrow for the actual transfusion.

I'm kind of freaking out here.

[jseal]

Let us hope that was the worst of her problems!

[Teddy Bear]

19 sticks!! Ouchie!! Seems they should have given her a pic-line. Not sure if that work have helped or not.

Hope she's better soon.

[pinkFlames]

I hope everything works out for the best.

[gekkogecko]

19 sticks!! Ouchie!! Seems they should have given her a pic-line.

Well, that's apparently what they're trying to do today-don't know why they have to sedate her for it, but shit.

[Lord Snow]

Isn't a pic line basically an iv that's straight into the heart? I would imagine that type of procedure would be quite painful.

[Teddy Bear]

Isn't a pic line basically an iv that's straight into the heart? I would imagine that type of procedure would be quite painful.

They put it in the upper arm, on the inside. It goes in a vein up the arm and close but not into the heart. It's not painful to have and when I got mine it was with a local, not completely sedated.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripherally_inserted_central_catheter


http://picclinenursing.com/picc_why.html

[gekkogecko]

Well, as it turns out, the sedation was at her request-however, the request was not honored. And yes, they did do a PICC line. Tried calling her last night, see how everythign went, but all I got was voice mail, so I'm not sure if she's still in the hospital, or has gotten home yet.

[dicksbro]

We'll keep her in our prayers, that's for sure.