He gets it. As I know many in healthcare and in humanitarian aid do. Have a listen.
The all lives matter crowd is disappointing as usual. The ones who pretend to care about unborn babies and innocent children. I have images of dead newborns imprinted on my goddamn brain. We just had breast cancer month and businesses everywhere ride that pink wave and sell everything pink in support of the warriors and their families. Where's the wide scale outcry for the collapse of Gaza's only cancer treatment hospital?
Is our concern and care for our fellow human conditional? Transactional? Someone tell me because I'm at a loss.
Last night I had a health crisis in my sleep and it manifested as a nightmare about Mandana being stolen while doing public access. My oxygen levels dropped over 100 times (my normal is about 10) I must have subconsciously attributed the persistent drops as my service dog being gone and unable to alert me.
It’s interesting that Mandana didn’t wake me. She is naturally very conscious of my heart rate, blood pressure and blood glucose but I’ve suspected for a while she isn’t able to pick up the oxygen issues and this confirmed it.
My Pulmonology appointments are Sept 6th & 11th. I’m desperately hoping they can help me.
🚨 breaking: hamas spokesman condemns arab leaders for not allowing aid through egypt
abu ubaydah (also known as abu obaida), the spokeperson for the izz ad-din al-qassam brigades (the military wing of hamas) issued the following statement condemning the inaction of arab nations regarding the transport of humanitarian aid into rafah. egypt has been cooperating with the united states and israel regarding aid transport across the rafah-gaza border. the border region, called al mawasi, is a desert region lacking infrastructure or a water source, anticipated to soon be housing around 1.7 million people. israel has informed both palestinians and news outlets that this is a safe zone.
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The urgent care doctor put me on antibiotics and steroids for my lung infection and told me if I suddenly get worse and have a high fever then I need to come back for help and that’s exactly what happened. (unfortunately Urgent Care was closed so we had to go to the ER instead)
I was doing ok all day and then all of a sudden I started to tank. All of my muscles were very sore and started to spasm a little. I was in a lot of pain and just didn’t feel good at all. Hubbins was in class, but I felt it was important enough to keep him updated. When this health crisis started I didn’t have a fever. Half an hour later I measured 107.2
I immediately called Hubbins and told him it was an emergency. It would take him another half hour to get home, so I did everything I could for myself. I’ve seen a healthy person have a 105° fever and it caused them to hallucinate, so I wasn’t confident in my abilities to think properly during this episode. That’s why I decided to crate Mandana and have Hubbins take me to the ER.
I took a high (but safe) dose of Ibuprofen and strapped my ice packs to my torso. I packed up my meds and monitored my heart rate, blood pressure and fever. Everything was way too high. I didn’t know it at the time but I think my high fever threw off the calibration of the thermometer. I’m confident I did have a high fever at some point but after it reached 107 it didn’t wouldn’t measure anything lower than that, even when I tested it on Hubbins.
It was an hour after the crisis started that I finally made it to the emergency room. They took blood samples, X-rayed my chest and hooked me up to an IV. By that point everything was starting to level out except for the heart rate and blood pressure but I was stable and able to be discharged a couple hours later.
I’m not sure exactly what happened. I felt like I was having a crisis and I’m confident we did everything right. I think the funky thermometer put a lot of doubts in the minds of the ER staff, but I use it every day and have never had issues with it. It measured normal just 30 minutes before and I felt like I was having a high fever when it measured high. I didn’t drop it or anything but I think going that high must have just ruined it because it ended up going all the way to 109 which is clearly not possible (and of course didn’t match the ER thermometer). After so many bad experiences with doctors, I hate it when things like this happen. The last thing I need is for my closest ER to think I’m crazy.
(Hubbins & Mandana cuddling. We didn’t get home till midnight. He missed his class & had to go to work early the next day. Insurance will only cover half of the ER visit, so that stinks too)
Mandana was a very good girl through all this. She was concerned of course but was ok being left behind in her room. She was happy to see me when I got back and was extra gentle. Today she just relaxed & let me set the pace which was really nice. When I finally started feeling better, I made sure to play some enrichment games. I even gave her a container of shaved ice with treats hidden inside to play with.
Love my mom but I'm literally having a small health crisis and she is no help right now. Like seriously if you have a parent in your life that provides you with comfort when you need it I'm totally envy you