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Been talking to my wife. Her fever has shot back up to 102 right now. Though that sucks, she said they finally see what we're talking about with it coming and going.
 
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joevol33 said:
Oh my goodness, I'd love that right now
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How's Tiffany? Sounds like they admitted her. Edit: just saw your update. Hate to hear about the seesaw temp, but like you say, at least they now see what's happening.

I'm sure she's pizzed at being in the hospital again, but it sounds like you shook some things up that needed shaking up! Let's hope this stay gets her back where she ought to be on the recovery road.

You said something earlier about the younger doctor and the main doctor (or something like that). If the younger doctor is a resident, s/he may have a lot to learn about post-surgical follow-up. In my 20 years of dealing with healthcare, surgeons in particular are prone to a "there, I fixed it" viewpoint of patient problems. They aren't always so good at dealing with less-than-perfect outcomes.

I always joke that a knee-replacement patient's head could have fallen off and rolled down the hall, but when the surgeon comes by to check on the patient, his/her notes say "incision CDI" (meaning that the knee replacement incision is clean, dry, and intact), and they go happily on their way without noticing the unfortunate absence of the patient's head. (My dad was an Army cardio-thoracic/ trauma surgeon, so I like to pick on surgeons. :cool:)

--certainly not true of all surgeons, but it seems to be a common-enough phenomenon that a lot of hospitals now require surgical patients to have a medicine (as opposed to surgery) doc such as a hospitalist following patients to evaluate their overall recovery.

Anyway, thank you again for being an advocate for your wife! She's a lucky gal.
 
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VolNExile said:
How's Tiffany? Sounds like they admitted her.

I'm sure she's pizzed at being in the hospital again, but it sounds like you shook some things up that needed shaking up! Let's hope this stay gets her back where she ought to be on the recovery road.

You said something earlier about the younger doctor and the main doctor (or something like that). If the younger doctor is a resident, s/he may have a lot to learn about post-surgical follow-up. In my 20 years of dealing with healthcare, surgeons in particular are prone to a "there, I fixed it" viewpoint of patient problems. They aren't always so good at dealing with less-than-perfect outcomes.

I always joke that a knee-replacement patient's head could have fallen off and rolled down the hall, but when the surgeon comes by to check on the patient, his/her notes say "incision CDI" (meaning that the knee replacement incision is clean, dry, and intact), and they go happily on their way without noticing the unfortunate absence of the patient's head. (My dad was an Army cardio-thoracic/ trauma surgeon, so I like to pick on surgeons. :cool:)

--certainly not true of all surgeons, but it seems to be a common-enough phenomenon that a lot of hospitals now require surgical patients to have a medicine (as opposed to surgery) doc such as a hospitalist following patients to evaluate their overall recovery.

Anyway, thank you again for being an advocate for your wife! She's a lucky gal.
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I didn't really get ugly, but I got stern. I told all of them that a fever everyday nearly a month after surgery wasn't normal. I said we've been going to the ER and Dr every few days, and all you all do is get her fever near normal and send her home. I said, if that's all you're gonna do tonight, then I'll take her home, and I'll find a Dr somewhere that will at least look into her white blood cell count being high. I hate her fever is up again, but like I said, they're seeing it first hand now.
 
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I have a picture of them together when she was a baby on my actual phone, I'll swap and post it
 
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IDK if I've ever shared about when she was pregnant with her, I'll swap phones back real quick
 
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She started having problems when carrying her, I actually think that's when the lupus really started, but it didn't really get bad until after my baby girl was born
 
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Anyway, we thought we lost her one night, she started bleeding really bad and we had to go to the ER
 
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My wife has always had a heart condition from birth, and her heart rate was high, really high. They were afraid she had a blood clot
 
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