Dolores, hospitalization

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Glad you are back home Dolores. Something will come about for the cost of the

testing and stuff. I am glad that you were able to be helped. Sounds like

while you suffered problems somehow someone was watching over you. I am glad to

see you have a sense of humor in your descriptions of the food. Those were

great descriptions!

Janet Sample

Re: appointments/drivers

This all started a week-ago last night when I appeared to have " lost my left

arm " . I was having " severe " pain in my left elbow that it woke me up and when I

reached for my husbands dresser I thought the dresser was gone. I reached for

it with my right hand and it was still there, so I got my cane and went to the

bathroom and then on in the living area where I stayed for a couple of housrs

rubbing, massaging, etc until the feeling started to return. I figured that I

must have slept on it wrong or something? Saturday around 4:00 I set out some

hamburger, my two remaining slices or " boiled ham " and four slices of bread to

unthaw and boy did it unthaw as I was out for over two hours, the hamburger

blede all over the counter, my boiled ham was not just warm, but Hot to the

touch. My bread could have been used as a weapon if I would have thrown it at

someone, plus my ice cold bottle of water was not even tempid, it also was Hot.

My neurologist gave it a big long name but said that it

also can be called a " silent seizure " they did a carotid study and they said

I had a light stroke, then Sunday when I started having chest pains I called my

son to take me to ER and shock of shocks, they admited me. When they did the

cardiac cathe thay found that where I had been ballooned in the late 1980's that

I had become unballooed and so they re-did that that valve and put in a stent.

They do say that Sunday I had a light heart attack and they said that my lungs

were so congested that it was surprise that I hadn't gone into congestive heart

failure. They started me on breathing tratments every four hours " around the

clock " . My breathing is much better and they told me to carry the albuterol

inhaler in my purse and to only use it in an emergency as they now have me on a

Nebulizer, they had to go thru a DME dealer at Lawrence that would work with

Gentiva and they delivered it to the hospital so I would have it when I left the

hospital as I would need to start the breathing

treatments as soon as I got home. The did a doppler test on my legs and

showed no clots. My neurologist said with the labs that he and Dr. Einspahr

have squeezed past Cigna and the findings from Stormont that he now is sending a

referral to the MDA Clinic at KU and they will contact me about an appt. I have

no idea what that will cost, but I will find the money somewhere? Thany's

about the jest of it. Dolores

Laurie Fitzgerald laurie.fitzgerald@...> wrote:Dolores

I am sorry you were hospitalized. Was it mito related, if I may be so

bold as to ask?

laurie

> Sorry I didn't get this answered soon but I was suddenly hospitalized

Sunday. More later

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