Hospital vampires, beware of them, they do exist
I wrote this when I was still in the hospital. Practically every morning when I was in the hospital between 7 am. and 7:30 am one comes in the room saying I'm from the lab and need some blood work done. It seemed that every other day the vampire came for me. The one this morning was very polite, asking which arm I wanted to offer him. His prehensile fingers expertly put a tourniquet on the arm and cleaned the selected spot with an alcohol swab. He even thanked me for good gusher he selected. After he was done he thoughtfully put a cotton swab over the puncture and taped it down. I personally think this was more for hiding his victims from the other vampire residents than for his concern for me bloodying the sheets.
You can tell when the place is infested when the tourniquets are strewn around the room., They look like 1 inch wide flat rubber bands, blue. When I first got to my room there were two tourniquets draped over the bed rails and one on the door knob, I should have screamed bloody murder and requested another room but I was naive about the safety of hospitals.
No wonder I was exhausted all the time and could fall asleep in the 10 minutes
between therapy appointments. And there weren't any young women to distract him, just us middle-aged and old codgers.
Beware
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 29,302 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke. DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.
What this blog is for:
My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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