I wish I had some lithe thing to get freaky with right about now.
I'm bizarrely pain free considering part of my right pectoral was excised damn near to the sternum. Also the ER doc today said it's just serous discharge, not purulent (pus), same thing my chest wound started doing. I think the on-call ID doc and I had multiple miscommunications on account of the late hour and being on the phone or something. Meanwhile my primary seems to be developing this pet theory that I don't show infection symptoms or they have a significantly delay in showing up similar to the immunocompromised except for the opposite reason: my body and/or immune system are just that resilient/stubborn. I'm not gonna pretend it's a superpower but the idea does sorta fit with my illness history when I was younger. There should have been symptoms from my lung abscess long before the second abscess formed and if I were immunocompromised with an untreated lung abscess that long I'd probably be dead or gravely ill.
Guurn
was at least partially right though, I think I worked most of the freaking out of my system and my brain just has no more hyper-vigilance left.
I'm bizarrely pain free considering part of my right pectoral was excised damn near to the sternum. Also the ER doc today said it's just serous discharge, not purulent (pus), same thing my chest wound started doing. I think the on-call ID doc and I had multiple miscommunications on account of the late hour and being on the phone or something. Meanwhile my primary seems to be developing this pet theory that I don't show infection symptoms or they have a significantly delay in showing up similar to the immunocompromised except for the opposite reason: my body and/or immune system are just that resilient/stubborn. I'm not gonna pretend it's a superpower but the idea does sorta fit with my illness history when I was younger. There should have been symptoms from my lung abscess long before the second abscess formed and if I were immunocompromised with an untreated lung abscess that long I'd probably be dead or gravely ill.
Of course the good news about the picc line had to be accompanied with some manner of bad news or else it wouldn't be my life. The right shoulder pain suddenly got substantially worse after a blood pressure test during ER admittance but we're stuck playing it by ear because the earliest I can get an MRI at my local hospital is in just over 2 weeks. The MRI truck shows up one day a week and unfortunately that day is Thursday meaning there was no chance of an appt tomorrow and Thursday next week I'll out of town for my follow-ups with surgery and ID. So my primary said if I have any more issues with the shoulder to just go to the ER at the much bigger hospital that she sent me back when she first found the lung abscess.
I think
That's just small town life, its a smallish hospital with somewhat limited services that caters to a bunch of small towns in the area. Anything serious has to be sent to a bigger hospital like they did with my lung abscess. And I'd have no trouble getting in next week if it didn't just so happen that their one day of availability was the same day that I'd be 3 hours away at my follow-up appointments. Hell if my appointments in STL were timed just a little different they would have been able to sneak me in next week anyway.
lol after analyzing the timetable and verifying exactly when the first appt actually wants me there (appt was for 1130 but they actually want me at 11 for chest CT) I committed to the open 7 am slot for an MRI on the same day because my doctor really didnt want me waiting until the 22nd and apparently talked to (maybe even pestered) the imaging scheduler to try and get me in sooner. So the instant I get out of the MRI coffin I'll be hopping on the road to STL to get there in time for my first followup, then we have to kill time until my second which I thankfully was able to reschedule to the same day before heading home.
Well whatever is wrong with my shoulder, it isn't a bone infection. Had a CT done at the bigger hospital's ER today because even though it doesn't hurt all that much, it's definitely been slowly getting worse and my primary's instructions were pretty clear re: the shoulder getting worse. So I probably still need to get the MRI done on Thursday because it will provide new diagnostic information.
I don't know how much time you will have in between (if your appt. is at the CAM), or if you will want to mess with leaving your parking spot...but the Science Center is about a mile away, the Art Museum, about three, and there are many good restaurants in the area.
First appt is over in Shiloh, second one is in some smaller building on the main Barnes campus. I'd love to at least try out one of those restaurants but three trips to STL in a fairly short period is a lot of extra money spent on gas so I'll probably pack lunch in a cooler. I'm also gonna have a bag packed for the nightmare scenario of them finding something that makes them want to readmit me but yesterdays clean CT made that even more unlikely. Still gonna pack though due to the distance and greater than 0% chance of it happening.
Ohmygeebus, glad you made it through that. (I can't stop laughing, though.)
I suppose the joke isn't finished without it. Ugh.
