I Survived
Viewing comments for Chapter 7 "My Code Blue Experience"A book for people to share stories of survival.
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Comment from Slo_6
First off, best wishes with your health. I hope your are doing well.
There is so much tension expressed here. You've done a really good job of sharing that with the reader. I felt it.
Your opening paragraph is probably an important memory to you. It certainly offers some additional context, but isn't expressly important to the rest of the chapter, which is mostly focused on one specific night and the consequences of that night. I could start reading at the second paragraph, and the emotional impact would be higher for me.
The first and last sentences are important, so likewise, consider dropping the last sentence, "And they were!" The preceding sentence does a better job of making that point both in terms of language and information.
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reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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First off, best wishes with your health. I hope your are doing well.
There is so much tension expressed here. You've done a really good job of sharing that with the reader. I felt it.
Your opening paragraph is probably an important memory to you. It certainly offers some additional context, but isn't expressly important to the rest of the chapter, which is mostly focused on one specific night and the consequences of that night. I could start reading at the second paragraph, and the emotional impact would be higher for me.
The first and last sentences are important, so likewise, consider dropping the last sentence, "And they were!" The preceding sentence does a better job of making that point both in terms of language and information.
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Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Thank you for your kind review.
Comment from BethShelby
This is why I have so little faith in doctors. The patient knows so much more about what is going on with their own body and rules to protect doctors and nurses makes it hard to help them know what needs to be done. I'm sure it was God who pulled your though. This was well written and needed to be said. It sounds like you have had to endure a lot most people are aware. In spite of everything, you are such an upbeat person who is always doing for others.
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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This is why I have so little faith in doctors. The patient knows so much more about what is going on with their own body and rules to protect doctors and nurses makes it hard to help them know what needs to be done. I'm sure it was God who pulled your though. This was well written and needed to be said. It sounds like you have had to endure a lot most people are aware. In spite of everything, you are such an upbeat person who is always doing for others.
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Hi Beth, I thank you so very much. Your review truly meant a lot to me.
I really do try to learn from the negatives in life and make them into positives
(even tho this came closest to being my final negative) LOL
My life motto however, is to always find a bright side. In this I think they took my advice about not cutting out someone's meds without talking to them first.
So, thank you again for your kind words.
Love, Debi
Comment from Terry Broxson
Debi, as you know, I'm not doing much on FanStory. I wanted to review this story for a couple of reasons. First, it shows the diversity of the writing experience on this site. Your nonfiction is well written. I know your first love is poetry. I, on the other hand, enjoy your prose more. I like it because your details bring your reader into the story as if it's them. That's a good talent. This book will be interesting when you finish it. Nicley done. Terry.
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Debi, as you know, I'm not doing much on FanStory. I wanted to review this story for a couple of reasons. First, it shows the diversity of the writing experience on this site. Your nonfiction is well written. I know your first love is poetry. I, on the other hand, enjoy your prose more. I like it because your details bring your reader into the story as if it's them. That's a good talent. This book will be interesting when you finish it. Nicley done. Terry.
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Terry, I thank you so very much. Your review truly meant a lot to me.
Just so you know, this book is Rhonda's that she started a couple months ago, called I survived. I figured this one might qualify. LOL
I really do try to learn from the negatives in life and make them into positives
(even tho this came closest to being my final negative)
My life motto however, is to find a bright side. In this I think they took my advice about not cutting out someone's meds without talking to them first.
So, thank you again for your kind words and for the generous six stars.
Love, Debi
Comment from Marilyn Hamilton
Debi, I am so angry right now. I'm sorry you had to go through that but I am also just angry at the way hospitals ignore us and treat us like imbeciles. I also deal with extreme restless leg syndrome and have had similar treatments in the hospital. Luckily my husband was there to set them straight and get me the medicine I needed. You did them a huge favor by not suing and they knew it. God is always there when no one else seems to be listening.
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Debi, I am so angry right now. I'm sorry you had to go through that but I am also just angry at the way hospitals ignore us and treat us like imbeciles. I also deal with extreme restless leg syndrome and have had similar treatments in the hospital. Luckily my husband was there to set them straight and get me the medicine I needed. You did them a huge favor by not suing and they knew it. God is always there when no one else seems to be listening.
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Oh, Marilyn, I knew there was a reason we were close. The fact that you know how hateful restless legs can be. The meds I take are for Parkinson's disease. That is how bad they are and easily cause anxiety attacks if I try to do it without meds.
So, I thank you so very much. Your review truly meant a lot to me.
I really do try to learn from the negatives in life and make them into positives
(even tho this came closest to being my final negative) LOL
My life motto however, is to find a bright side. In this I think they took my advice about not cutting out someone's meds without talking to them first.
So, thank you again for your kind words.
Love, Debi
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I'm wondering what meds you take for it. Was given klonopin and was addicted to it for 15 years. Felt like a heroine addict coming off of it.
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I am on pramipexole.
Have you ever heard of it?
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I try to stay away from any medication anymore that ends with Pam. LOL
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I dont think so
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If you came off of it what are you on now for it? I am so afraid to even go one night without anything because that sensation I think is worst then pain. Y'know?
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I'm on Repinirole or otherwise known as Requip. Works great most of the time. i ttake it every night.
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Oh good. I would hate to see you still suffering. It almost feels like a sisterhood when you find someone else going through that.
Granted at the end all it had caused was my panic attack, which is bad enough. But what caused the code blue and the heart rate of 23 and blood pressure of 66/26 I should have been dead. But that was from my hemoglobin of 5. I have been a chronic anemic since I was a young kid. I am a DES baby so I started very young with lots of problems. Starting at 7 when I got my period. DES really clobbered and it even affected my daughter who had cancer and 8 miscarriage or still births.
Comment from nomi338
I am so grateful to God and your family that you did not die as a result of the mismanagement of your medical team. During the early 90s, I took a break from data processing and took a job as a security guard at a medical college in Pomona California, I had an opportunity to speak to many of the students who attended. Because if my age and overall life experience, I was able to have some deep conversations with these future doctors. One of the beautiful things about this institution is, it breaks everything down and teaches the students that coming in they know very little and they must learn from the very basic idea and theme that hey are there to learn how to save lives, not to make huge amounts of money. The money is guaranteed, the lives of their patients is not
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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I am so grateful to God and your family that you did not die as a result of the mismanagement of your medical team. During the early 90s, I took a break from data processing and took a job as a security guard at a medical college in Pomona California, I had an opportunity to speak to many of the students who attended. Because if my age and overall life experience, I was able to have some deep conversations with these future doctors. One of the beautiful things about this institution is, it breaks everything down and teaches the students that coming in they know very little and they must learn from the very basic idea and theme that hey are there to learn how to save lives, not to make huge amounts of money. The money is guaranteed, the lives of their patients is not
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Oh Nomi, you are so sweet and I always feel so blessed to have you in my corner. You were there for me big time when this was going on too.
So would you believe this is the hospital that most trauma patients are taken to? It is called North Memorial Hospital and Trauma Center. go figure, huh?? When my daughter, Bridget was little she had a bike accident where she hit a rock and her head hit another one. Our local hospital couldn't handle her fractured skull so they flew her to North Memorial. I am not kidding!! LOL and that is why they wanted me to have my surgeries there
I thank you so very much for the kindest and compassionate words for my story. I am hoping that something good has come from it if maybe they stopped taking meds away from people without their knowledge. I appreciate the six stars and especially YOU so very much, my dear BBBB.
Love, Debi
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You forget about anything or anyone and concentrate of getting well. I have some very exciting news to share, but you will not het to find out about it until you get well. i would hate to have you suffer a setback from my exciting news.
Comment from Cecilia A Heiskary
Debi,
Wow!!! You are a storm trooper and I am glad you survived. Thank you for sharing a little part of your life with us. I appreciate. The most frustrating thing about doctors and nurses is they don't listen to their patients. I know my body better than they do, even if they have MD or RN behind their name.
What hospital was it that almost killed you. Just curious.
Last September my youngest son had a motorcycle accident. He broke his pelvis in three places and his tail bone. He also hyper extended his knee.
I stayed at the hospital for 4 days with him and witnessed the shit care he got. Well, I am one, a protective mama bear, and two a very outspoken woman. I believe in advocating for myself and family. On the third day I laid into the trauma surgeon and let him know what kind of shit care he was receiving. Surprisingly he listened and changed my son's medication so he would be more comfortable. The nursing staff was shit. He would have to call for his pain meds, they never checked on him throughout the night. I let hospital administration know about the shit care. Not sure they did anything.
Something needs to change.
Love ya Cecilia
reply by the author on 17-Nov-2024
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Debi,
Wow!!! You are a storm trooper and I am glad you survived. Thank you for sharing a little part of your life with us. I appreciate. The most frustrating thing about doctors and nurses is they don't listen to their patients. I know my body better than they do, even if they have MD or RN behind their name.
What hospital was it that almost killed you. Just curious.
Last September my youngest son had a motorcycle accident. He broke his pelvis in three places and his tail bone. He also hyper extended his knee.
I stayed at the hospital for 4 days with him and witnessed the shit care he got. Well, I am one, a protective mama bear, and two a very outspoken woman. I believe in advocating for myself and family. On the third day I laid into the trauma surgeon and let him know what kind of shit care he was receiving. Surprisingly he listened and changed my son's medication so he would be more comfortable. The nursing staff was shit. He would have to call for his pain meds, they never checked on him throughout the night. I let hospital administration know about the shit care. Not sure they did anything.
Something needs to change.
Love ya Cecilia
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 17-Nov-2024
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So sorry for what you dealt with for your son, but are you sure you aren't my daughter somehow? I always stayed with my kids too and never left their side except to go to the cafeteria and eat maybe.
And yes, I am a mama bear too! But yes, I am my own advocate and hate when they think they know more about you than we do. How do you think I got hooked on the narcotics in the first place? I was such a yes person before. But I came out of it. Even with my health issues I dropped from 16 meds a day down to 3 and I had to sleep with the devil to do it. Literally!! I was forced to go off of my antidepressants cold turkey after a pharmacist misunderstood when I said I wanted to ween and he thought I said I was not going to need them anymore. But that was next month, not this one and they cancelled with the insurance and by the time they would have had more for me, I would already go thru a week of withdrawal. So satan tied me up with barbwire almost every night and then turned on the electric fence and sat in my bed and mocked me.. This happened many nights before the nightmares stopped. And now I still can't sleep in the dark.
And in answer to your big question, they set me up to go where everyone else sends trauma patients so I would be in the best care. North Memorial Trauma Center and Hospital in Robinsdale. What a joke that was, huh?
Thanks again, Sweetie!! Lotsa love and hugs.... Debi
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Debi,
I've been to that hospital and I wasn't impressed. Nough said. Have a wonderful day my warrior friend. We have so much in common. I am a warrior myself.
Lot's of love Cecilia
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Thank you for sharing this story with us. It's so important that we have somebody who isn't afraid to speak up for us in our behalf while in the hospital. We need to be our own advocates. You remain in my prayers.
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Thank you for sharing this story with us. It's so important that we have somebody who isn't afraid to speak up for us in our behalf while in the hospital. We need to be our own advocates. You remain in my prayers.
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Hi there Barb, and would you believe this is the hospital that most trauma patients are taken to? It is called North Memorial Hospital and Trauma Center. go figure, huh?? When my daughter, Bridget was little she had a bike accident where she hit a rock and her head hit another one. Our local hospital couldn't handle her fractured skull so they flew her to North Memorial. I am not kidding!! LOL and that is why they wanted me to have my surgeries there
I thank you so very much for the kindest and compassionate words for my story. I am hoping that something good has come from it if maybe they stopped taking meds away from people without their knowledge. I appreciate YOU so very much, my dear friend. Love, Debi
Comment from Sally Law
Debi dear, I'm so grateful you are here! Praise the Lord your family listened to you and responded immediately. You were in a bad way. I'm sickened by the nurse's response to you! But the Lord was there and worked through your family. Our faithful loving Lord be praised, and your family of angels.
Thank you for sharing your gripping true story with a beautiful end for the book: I Survived. I am blessed by your faith and strength, privileged to call you my friend and adopted sister!
Love you dearly!
Sal XOs
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Debi dear, I'm so grateful you are here! Praise the Lord your family listened to you and responded immediately. You were in a bad way. I'm sickened by the nurse's response to you! But the Lord was there and worked through your family. Our faithful loving Lord be praised, and your family of angels.
Thank you for sharing your gripping true story with a beautiful end for the book: I Survived. I am blessed by your faith and strength, privileged to call you my friend and adopted sister!
Love you dearly!
Sal XOs
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Hi Sally, and would you believe this is the hospital that most trauma patients are taken to? It is called North Memorial Hospital and Trauma Center. go figure, huh?? When my daughter, Bridget was little she had a bike accident where she hit a rock and her head hit another one. Our local hospital couldn't handle her fractured skull so they flew her to North Memorial. I am not kidding!! LOL and that is why they wanted me to have my surgeries there
I thank you so very much for the kindest and compassionate words for my story. I am hoping that something good has come from it if maybe they stopped taking meds away from people without their knowledge. I appreciate your sweet six stars and YOU so very much, my dear friend. Love, Debi
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
Oh Debi, that was horrific, your very own horror nightmare! That nurse should have been sacked! You nearly died, and knew it before they did. If that nurse hadn't come in to check your vitals when she did, it might have been too late. I'm glad you didn't return to that hospital for the next operation. It was a miracle and Jesus was the one who was there for you. I'm so glad you made it. Love you lots, my friend. :) Sandra xx
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reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Oh Debi, that was horrific, your very own horror nightmare! That nurse should have been sacked! You nearly died, and knew it before they did. If that nurse hadn't come in to check your vitals when she did, it might have been too late. I'm glad you didn't return to that hospital for the next operation. It was a miracle and Jesus was the one who was there for you. I'm so glad you made it. Love you lots, my friend. :) Sandra xx
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Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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My dearest Sandra, would you believe this is the hospital that most trauma patients are taken to? It is called North Memorial Hospital and Trauma Center. go figure, huh?? When my daughter, Bridget was little she had a bike accident where she hit a rock and her head hit another one. Our local hospital couldn't handle her fractured skull so they flew her to North Memorial. I am not kidding!! LOL and that is why they wanted me to have my surgeries there
I thank you so very much for the kindest and compassionate words for my story. I am hoping that something good has come from it if maybe they stopped taking meds away from people without their knowledge. And yes, like you said, start listening to the patients. I appreciate YOU so very much, my dear friend. Love, Debi
Comment from Regina Elliott
Dear friend you went through
so much. By the grace of
Jesus you are, thankfully,
still with us. Very well penned
account of your ordeal. Have
a blessed Sunday with your
family, sweet friend. xox
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Dear friend you went through
so much. By the grace of
Jesus you are, thankfully,
still with us. Very well penned
account of your ordeal. Have
a blessed Sunday with your
family, sweet friend. xox
Comment Written 17-Nov-2024
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2024
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Dearest Regina, would you believe this is the hospital that most trauma patients are taken to? It is called North Memorial Hospital and Trauma Center. go figure, huh?? When my daughter, Bridget was little she had a bike accident where she hit a rock and her head hit another one. Our local hospital couldn't handle her fractured skull so they flew her to North Memorial. I am not kidding!! LOL and that is why they wanted me to have my surgeries there
I thank you so very much for the kindest and compassionate words for my story. I am hoping that something good has come from it if maybe they stopped taking meds away from people without their knowledge. I appreciate your lovely six stars and YOU so very much, my dear friend. Love, Debi