That's nothing. I had a congential heart defect which had to be
repaired in october 1999 with an artificial valve. So I am taking
wafarin pills [warfarin is also known as the old-fashioned rat
poison. The current rodenticide is brodifacoum, a superwafarin that
is 7 times stronger to kill resistant.]
Anyways, with wafarin therapy comes the risks of nosebleeds. One time
in 2001, I had a flu shot. I was bleeding from the injection site
pretty badly, I had to be overnight at the hospital. This year in
March, I had a nosebleed faint, but so bad, it had lasted 7 days. It
slowly dripped down my throat, leaving me weak. The emergency room
could not keep me and would not admit me and the doctors stuffed my
nostrils with cotton and some wierd cream, which did not help at all.
When I was admitted, the nurse shoved a hard piece of cotton up my
nostril, making it worse. So they had to take that out and put in a
catheter up my nose. Oh, yes, they inflated it, and clamped it onto
my nostril. It was so painful all I could do is lie there in the bed,
it was painful to swallow anything, so I could not eat. I pushed the
meals away, asking them to puree it before serving. I managed the
pain with morphia. To make things dangerous, I had a blood
transfusion of whole blood and plasma from unknown donors. They gave
me only enough to manage the pain, which left me counting the clock
the last 40 or so minutes of the 4 hour periods for that. They said
the catheter was going to be removed one day, but it was held over
for two more days. Thankfully the donated blood had no problems, and
the catheter came out and that was the end of the 6 day ordeal. I had
to take stabilized heparin injections, [Enoxaparin] right in the gut,
for a couple of weeks. I thought I was going to be finished with it
one day in April, I was ready to go, with a ticket to Knott's Berry
Farm to help out at a fundraiser held there, but I was hit with bad
news, I had to take one more week. I had to give away the ticket. I
was done with the ordeal, but it has scarred me some. Not just the
nostril, but also psychologically.
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Ross Sauer" <patch02_at_c...>
wrote:
> I have a bit of a medical problem myself.
> You see, I live in WI, and the weather has been cold and dry lately.
> And every year as a result I get nosebleeds.
>
> This year though it really got bad.
> Last Thursday I got a really bad nosebleed, in fact I lost so much
blood I
> ended up needing to get a transfusion.
> The ER doctor also put 2 stitches up in my nostril.
> (It still hurts, especially when I sneeze.)
>
> Suffice to say, my Thanksgiving was ruined.
Received on Mon Dec 30 2002 - 19:48:44 CST