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remember me?
i got a new computer 6 months ago, and hadn't saved favorite places, and whatnot. lost the link to here, and although it's easy to find, i just never had.
i had some screwy dream about posting here (don't remember what -- mostly it involved the layout and line of emoticons just below here, etc... the RSS feed i had when i was more actively posting here, etc) and so decided to peek back and see what's going on.
i am still working at my hospital; i'm now nationally certified through the ASCP, which means nothing more than a raise and i have fancy initials after my name. i'm going back to school next year to become a full MT (medical technologist), and i might do my master's study in hematology (including blood banking, blood disorders, etc).
oh, also i went into cardiac arrest a month ago. brady-tachy syndrome. i can thank ED's for that one. i had a cardioversion procedure done that made improvements, however, as of yesterday my BP is back down to 81/50, pulse 54. i guess i am to travel to cleaveland to have an EPS procedure done, except i am quite terrified to have that procedure done. besides, they already know the cause. but i guess this is to see what part of my heart isn't firing properly, and what to do. i'm 28 and likely will have a pacemaker, albeit a temporary, external one, or so my specialist out of grand rapids, thinks.
anyways, other than that, and working, and skating-writing-reading-music-shiloh, not a lot has changed. i hope everyone is well here.
-h.
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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I am sorry you are having such health problems and hope you get everything taken care of. All the EPS AIG UMR, I have absolutely no idea what all that is but it sounds painful. ;-D ;-D
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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sorry -- EPS = electrophysiology studies. basically, they go inside you and watch your heart.
they would introduce a catheder starting at a vein in my groin, and thread it up that vein, to my heart.
via radiology, they would monitor the ongoings on a screen.
basically, what they do is cause the arrhythmias going on with my heart (the too-slow (brady), followed by 2 minute bouts of too-fast (tachy)) to happen, only i am under a closely monitored situation rather than, say, sitting in my living room. they will cause extra heartbeats with the catheder, and change the rhythms. oftentimes, the patient will wind up passing out (you are already sedated) and then they give a little shock to bring your heart back to a normal rhythm.
it is a test used to determine the exact origin of the arrhythmia, and what it is (there are many kinds), and therefore how to treat it.
and, i don't want to do it, simple as that. there are a lot of writeups and i have a pamphlet on how 'painless' it is, and you are usually home within a day or so, but i don't care. the concept of it is alarming, more so than my blood pressure at current (normal is 120/80 or therabouts).
anyways, hi and nice to meet you. i've read much from you, as i did a lot of backreading before making my 'i'm back for awhile' post.
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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Hi ghost-girl,
It's nice to see you around. I don't think I know you, but I've seen a few of your posts from time to time. People seem to come and go on this board, some never to be seen again -- it's great that you're back.
I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. I hope things are going well at the moment.
David
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hey there.
my login name has always been the same (misplaced) though i know i keep changing the name that shows up. i can't remember what it was when i was here, most often... maybe it was also misplaced? i can't recall. but i came around a couple years ago and was active for awhile.
i've read a lot of you too, in backreading. nice to meet you. 
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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I know treatments and test. I have anemia and they are always testing something. The worst ting they ever did was the kidney biopsy. Dont ever let them tell you these things dont hurt. They draw blood all the time and I have to give myself a shot to make blood. A new teach at school caught me in the rest room giving myself a shot and freaked out. The principle had to explain to him what I was doing and that I wasnt a heroin adict. It was so funny.
You know tho. If the test will improve your situation, then go for it. They can work miricles now. Hope everything works out ok.
For me you are new. Hope reading my post dont scare you off. I dont bite, you can ask Cossie about that. )
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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your posts hadn't scared me off anyway, after all i came back, right? 
my primary job in the lab is drawing blood -- while i've already become jaded in it in some aspects, those "regulars" who have to come in all the time for various, serious health concerns, i am most careful with.
one of them, once, called me an angel, because i hadn't hurt her and so many veins were so scarred up, etc.... 2 years of my schooling were JUST on drawing blood alone (shows you how extensive laboratory/med tech schooling is i guess, LOL!) so i try to be careful. even in ER, although many there are frequent flyers looking for IV drugs, not all are...
i am sorry you've had to go through so much. i definitely can relate.
i don't think i'll have the test though. i'm too chicken and NOT too chicken to admit that. it's already been said i will likely have to have a temporary (external) pacemaker, so why they need to do the EPS i have no clue, but, i won't do it. i can't afford the time off work, and the time that i CAN (end of summer) they say is "not going to cut it, it needs to be sooner." uhm, tell that to my employer? oh well.
i just have to force myself to eat properly to keep the electrolytes balanced, which is the cause of the mess to begin with. then maybe things will right themselves. this is my hope.
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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