Elnut is home and LIFE STINKS!!!!

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Elnut, I am so glad to hear you are home with your wife and son and hope you stay there throughout the holiday season. So sorry to hear you are continuing to have such struggles with your health. I am not sure how this all started back in 2007 cuz I wasnt here then but it has gone on much too long. You are right life stinks and life isnt fair for some of us. It was a real shame that you couldnt have had your time fishing at the cottage that you were so looking forward too. I too hate that expression that the Lord doesnt give us more than we can handle. God doesnt give us anything that is bad for us cuz that is what life gives us. God is there for comfort and strength to get through the hard times. So lie back and relax Elnut and enjoy the holidays with your family. No need to fight but just relax and let what happens happens. You seem to have such such good loving friends in your life to help you through the tough times and for that you are truly blessed. I sincerely wish that your health improves and prayers sent for that purpose. Take care, Margie:)

Thanks Marg but life is a struggle. I should be fishing, FNF fishing, my favorite way to fish on my favoite lake, DALE HOLLOW, for my favorite fish, SMALLMOUTH. As it is, I sit here with a wound vac on my stomach with a hole big enough to bury a softball in and who knows how many weeks before it closes up. This is my 6th Wound Vac and none of them have ever worked. They start out ok then get infected and makes it worse. I am just waiting for that day to happen because it is back in the hospital with all the massive antibiotics being pushed again. Then the process starts all over again. Life stinks and I sure wish it would take a turn for the better SOON.

[QUOTE=elnutsmalljaws;435059] I was stuck 47 times in trying to get 8 different IV's started and my arms look like I have been beat with baseball bats.[/QUOTE]

I am shocked they attempted that many IV sticks, especially if you have a history of being a hard stick (unless it was during triage)....I would demand a PICC line instead, or even a port-a-cath insertion IMO. Wish you the best brother. God bless.

-Rich

[QUOTE=RICHYD4U;435284]I am shocked they attempted that many IV sticks, especially if you have a history of being a hard stick (unless it was during triage)....I would demand a PICC line instead, or even a port-a-cath insertion IMO. Wish you the best brother. God bless.

-Rich[/QUOTE]


UK had 2 Picc line nurses on duty and they were both tied up at times. Even had rapid response and nurses from the neonatal unit try.

my significant other has the porta cath, but they still insist on sticks for blood tests, my last wives were so scared it was torture to watch them try. My first wife the doctor told them to stop taking blood tests because no matter what the tests showed, her condition was not going to improve, and it wasw like watching torture.The porta things need to ne flushed quite often.I feel for you buddy.I leave the room when they take blood tests on folks. As for me, no problems.I can fill those vials on the first try most of the time.

The needles don't bother me at all. I have been stuck so many times in every place imagineable that I don't care. It takes an average of 6 sticks for them to get an IV started on me with the record being 13 - twice, and only 8 nurses have ever gotten it on the first stick EVER. Considering I have been in the hospital exactly 500 days and probably 50 additional trips to the ER plus all the CT scans and such I guess I have had 400 IV's. With me having pretty potent antibiotics plus phenogren and other harsh stuff thru my IV they only last a couple of days before they blow. Probably been stuck in the neighborhood of 2500 times so it does not bother me at all. Been stuck in the thumbs, back of hands, wrists, all around my arms below my elbows and several spots in my arms above my elbows. I have had probably 20 or so PICC lines but they cost $$$ to get them put in and insurance is not so quick to pay for them. I just grin and go on with it. My wife hates watching them stick me so many times. I have a great vein for them to get blood from, absolute guaranteed vein, but IV's are another story