Damn, woman. Get the man to the doctor before next week! Why does he need you to go with him? Even if it is something minor, at least they might be able to make him feel better sooner! Why suffer until next week?
Siren, though I don't know you...my thoughts are with you and your friend Wolfy. I hope he is feeling well soon Though I have to say that what Cheyenne makes sense. It sounds as though he needs to see a doctor soon. Serious or minor..he should go for comfort and healing.
Good Luck!
Two years ago my husband was 28....worked out 5 days a week...was ,as you say "a manly man"..in very good physical condition.....then on July 18 at 9:00 am....I tried to wake him up. He was laying on his side smiling at me...I thought he was playing, acting like he was asleep, so I rolled him over...only half his face was smiling....he'd had a Stroke in his sleep. A STROKE.
Thanks to quick medical attention and lots of prayers he has recovered almost 100%. We are very lucky...please don't waste any time seeking medical help....you never know when it is going to be too late sweety.
Hey there Havn't posted I think since we got up
here to washington. I know I need to go see a doctor
and will as soon as we get back and have insurance.
We went to Sant Mary's in Apple Valley and because I
don't have insurance it cost us over $4000. I don't
feel bad enought to spend so much money when waiting a
week or so will allow us to save alot.
If I start to feel really bad I will get myself admitted
ASAP. I really don't want my wife to worry and am trying
to just get this over with as fast and easily as possible.
So far I havn't had very good experiences with hospitals.
My grandmother went into one at 50 and died. My mother
went into one and got addicted to xanax etc and really
thrashed her life in the long run and a few other things.
Not to mention Sant Mary's screwing us over by admitting
me to the wrong hospital and then the next morning releasing
me because they needed the bed before finding out what was wrong and after doing $4000 dollars worth of tests.
All and all I would rather not use a hospital at all and
just get better by myself like I always have but I don't
want Siren to worry so I am going to go. But I am definatly
waiting till it isn't going to bankrupt us or destroy my
credit etc. I do know the signs to watch for like heavyness
of heart etc of a stroke etc and I am beggining to think it
dosn't have anything to do with my heart anyway. They did
a bunch of tests on my heart and it seems healthy.
Anyway thank you all for you concern but please don't worry
my wife. I know everything will work out just fine and I won't let anything happen to either of us.
*Slurp*
Siren and Wolfy..nice to meet you. I think it's great that you both met on here and are doing so well..smiles. Married, even! Yayyyyy!
As for you, Wolfy..she just loves you, cares about you, and is doing the wifely worry thing. *g* It's her job. Can you blame her? Shows she cares..smiles. (How obvious is it now that I am a wife? lol) Just take care of yourself.
Siren..thanks for the info...*g*. Still getting to know everyone here on the boards. I'm sure we'll all chat in the future.
That hospital was horrible. They admitted us then stuck us in a emergency room waiting room till 3 freaking AM then transfered me to a room after doing tons of tests. They wake everyone up at 5 am and since I didn't get into the room till 3 and they have to have a nurse take info etc and do other things I got no sleep at all. Pluss they put me on antibiotics and oxygen....mine was around 80% without air....but then in the morning at 9 am released me because they needed the bed. Nobody was there to pick me up and no way to call my wife since our phone was turned off. I went fro 85%-90% oxygen with the air to no air at all pluss was on a new drug. Ended up losing my wallet because my head was
so cloudy. On top of that they charged me over 4000$ for the whole thing and did absolutly nothing to help at all.
All and all it didn't do much to change my opinion of hospitals. Still I will go to one soon to put my wife's fears to rest....I don't want her to have to worry anymore.
I've always just dealt with whatever went wrong with me and
havn't used hospitals before so this is new and annoying to
me but Siren means more to me then my feelings about hospitals.
Anyway thanks again all for your concerned posts.
*slurp*
Ps. I'm not trying to avoid responsibility for losing
my wallet. It was my fault and idiotic. But since I lost my wallet on a trip to New York a few years ago I'm always super super carefull with it and have never lost it since.
Siren took my wallet when she left the hospital and so I didn't have it in my customary place when she gave it back to me....which is the inside of my jacket pocket...(it's a light jacket and I always wear it pretty much or a dress jacket etc. Anyway I placed it on top of the car and then just forgot about it. Couldn't even remember putting it there later when I realized it was missing. I think that the hospital shares some blame in that for if I had been ok
I would have at least remembered that and we would have been able to go back in time to retrieve it.
You only have a definite length of time to be on the earth, loving, and living. Don't waste it! Material things pale in comparison to the horrible pain you feel when someone you love dies. And then the doubts. Could I have done something differently? What if I had made him go to the doctor earlier? Would he still be here with me?
For God's sake! Don't do that to each other!
Time is finite, spend it loving each other, not gasping for air and feeling sick!! Why do people have to be so damn stubborn about things like this?!
Ok I'm not gasping for air. Since we have left the
high desert I've been breathing much easier. I'm not
sure what the oxygen problem was/is but It's not something
that is massivly interfering with my life currently.
I have gone for walks along a river...used a treadmill and
of course moved heavy furniture and many many (to many boxes) boxes. So i'm not dying here. I havn't been feeling like superman thats true and there are some things that need to be checked out. But all in all I think with the enormous stress I was under for awhile (Driving that truck with my eye-sight was nerve wracking) and all the heavy lifting and moving i've been doing not to meantion so many days of little sleep I've come out of it pretty well. My body just needs alittle time to recouperate and normally I would just take it a bit easy for awhile till I got better.
As I said tho since there was an oxygen problem that wasn't solved etc I will go to see a doctor soon and If I start feeling worse then just having a headache and sore muscles/back and stuff like that I will go right away. But for now at least other then extreme tiredness and soreness i'm not in that bad of shape. A few weeks of rest would probably do wonders for me. Even before we moved we had been very busy for along time and both of us have had way to many things we have had to juggle lately. We are finnaly getting to a time where we can unwind and relax and this will be really nice. Thats not to say we didn't have alot of fun all that time we just have been having many major life changes and new stresses for awhile and that adds up.
Anyway once again I thank you all for your concern. I will
repeat that I won't endanger myself since I wouldn't dream of leaving my wife alone on this earth without me. That would be far to cruel. So rest assured that I won't let anything happen to me. I love Siren far to much to ever risk our life together if I can avoid it.
I read that you have a possible milk intolerence....
Could be the cause of any breathing problems, excess phlem, etc. If you could eliminate the dairy products, your breathing may improve.
Allergies are fucked up in that way...the tend to cause many side irritations, along with the major affliction.
After 10 years of horrid illness, and barbaric treatment by doctors resulting in half assed diagnosises, I found out via blessed coincidance, that I have a very rare allergy to food dyes, and certain carriers of color. It not only causes violent vomiting, and my digestive system stops functioning completely, but Severe dandruff, proneness to infections, and sometimes breathing difficulties....
I am no doctor..but if they can't find what is wrong than you most likely have an allergy...and that'll be the last thing they check for, cause they "Need" to get all of your money first!
Wolfy, Whatever the case may be, I wish you a quick recovery!
I don't think so, Siren. I doubt that it has anything to be with his tolerance to lactose. I know that I am. I usually just get stomach and nausea pains from it.
I can only hope and pray that it isn't that foot and mouth disease that the news media is talking about.