Anne's Adventures in ER land

AnneCan
AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1
Well I had to make a trip to ER last night. My heart was racing, I had thrown u and generally felt curmmy - spent the day in bed. My husband called my primary nurse (my onc's nurse) + she wanted us to go to the ER at my cancer centre. So off we went, arriving ~ 9:30 pm and left after 6:am the next day. I was seen almost right away, and put in a bed in the ER. I have not had to be in ER for a long time + was so happy they were able to access my port for blood, and hydration. I was given a pretty complete work-up - bloodwork, urinalysis, EKG,monitoring of temp, bp and hear rate, xray. I was low in magnesium and had a UTI (no symptoms for that!) So I was given IV anti-nauses, IV magnesium solution and saline solution. The nurses + doctor were great, and I had a "physician's assisstant" -never heard of that before. The doctor was gorgeous + looked like she should be on a medical show. She gave me thw choice of staying or going home; I chose home. I will be receiving home hyration for a few days.

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  • daBeachBum
    daBeachBum Member Posts: 164
    #2
    Hey Anne
    Anne,

    Sorry to hear that you had to spend the night in Emergency but I'm glad that they took good care of you and that you got to head back home afterward!

    I hope you feel 100% soon :-)

    Ray
  • luvmum
    luvmum Member Posts: 457 Member
    #3
    I hope you are feeling better now!
    Dear Anne,

    I'm so sorry and worried that you went to ER last night. I hope you are feeling better now.
    I've talked to my friend's mum about the hospital facilities in US and I'm amazed by their professional high standard services available for their patients.
    You are always in my thought!
    Love and hugs
    Dora
  • Lovekitties
    Lovekitties Member Posts: 3,364 Member
    #4
    Dear Anne
    So sorry to hear that you had to make a trip to the ER but it sounds like they were good to you and got you what you needed.

    Hope you feel much better soonest.

    Hugs,

    Marie who loves kitties
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #5
    Lovekitties said:

    Dear Anne
    So sorry to hear that you had to make a trip to the ER but it sounds like they were good to you and got you what you needed.

    Hope you feel much better soonest.

    Hugs,

    Marie who loves kitties

    Dear Anne, hope you get recovered very soon!
    Take care of you!
  • tina dasilva
    tina dasilva Member Posts: 641
    #6
    pepebcn said:

    Dear Anne, hope you get recovered very soon!
    Take care of you!

    Oh Anne
    I'm so sorry to hear . Get better soon hun hugs Tina
  • geotina
    geotina Member Posts: 2,111 Member
    #7
    Anne:
    Sure hope you feel better soon. Must have been a "Friday the 13th" thing because George spent all day in the ER also but he was admitted.

    George's onc has 4 physicians assistants on staff at the office. You see them before you see the onc when you come in to see the doc. They spend lots of time in the room and do a pretty good work up before the onc steps in so he has a pretty good report on things before he steps in the room. They also do hospital rounds with the oncologist.

    Take care, big hugs - Tina
  • jjaj133
    jjaj133 Member Posts: 867 Member
    #8
    So sorry you had to go
    So sorry you had to go through that. But very grateful they took such good care of you. I hope your weekend is restful.
    Judy
  • smokeyjoe
    smokeyjoe Member Posts: 1,425 Member
    #9
    jjaj133 said:

    So sorry you had to go
    So sorry you had to go through that. But very grateful they took such good care of you. I hope your weekend is restful.
    Judy

    So sorry you had to go to
    So sorry you had to go to ER, did they put you on anti-biotics for the UTI?
  • Sundanceh
    Sundanceh Member Posts: 4,392 Member
    #10
    Ah, Hah
    That's where you've been...

    Well, I'm glad that you're home now and will begin to feel better.

    Don't like it when my Annie is sick:)

    -Craig
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    #11
    Sundanceh said:

    Ah, Hah
    That's where you've been...

    Well, I'm glad that you're home now and will begin to feel better.

    Don't like it when my Annie is sick:)

    -Craig

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  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #12
    sounds like a good outcome
    dear anne,

    sounds like you had excellent care, so glad your well enough to go home.

    hugs.
    pete

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