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Last year, my husband was recovering from a heart attack and still in the hospital. As far as we know, no one knows what caused it. (A clot? High blood pressure? AFIB? Something else?) But, to treat it, they wanted to make sure he didn't have another one, so they put him on blood thinners. Three to four of them.
And the result was his blood was leaking out at an alarming rate. (Over 50 units of blood needed in the space of 4 months is an alarming rate.)
They kept trying to find the source of the leak by doing a full scope of his digestive system -- often. I don't know how many blood vessels the human body has, but I am sure most of them aren't in the throat, stomach and intestines. The first time they scoped him they found some inerrant blood vessels in his digestive system. They used a word for that, but basically that happens to some people as they get older, and they're thin so they can erupt at any time. Most folks don't know they have them and they never erupt. Either way, none of them were bleeding when he was scoped and yet the doctor kept telling us they don't know if it was bleeding a moment before or a moment after.
Ends up, I question this, since when he had his fingernails cut, a nurse's aid accidentally cut his pinkie and the tiny cut dribbled for 13 hours! He lost about a pint of blood on that alone, so, yo! If it was bleeding before they got to those vessels, it was still bleeding when they got to it. That's what blood thinners do -- thin blood enough that you bleed over the slightest little thing.
Every time, he lost blood they'd scope his entire digestive system. FOUR times they did that and nothing changed.
He was in awful shape the entire time he was bleeding, because he already lost all muscle tone from atrophy from being unconscious for six weeks, and then he had to learn how to do everything all over again. (Sit up was the hardest for him.) And because he had so little blood, by very nature, he was anemic, and didn't have the strength to exercise.
Six weeks before he came home, something changed. He was supposed to stay on the blood thinners for a year, but they took him off all of them (but aspirin.) Not until a couple of months ago, when I was reading his 4000+ page file did I learn what changed.
Someone added that he had chronic AFIB. He did have AFIB one day, but we kept telling him that was it, and they kept telling us he has chronic AFIB, so we thought his heart was still fluttering wildly and he'd have to live with that. Nope. Some moron added that to his chart, and every moron after that kept believing it. Six weeks before he came home, his current cardiologist checked and fixed that.
Tada! Miracle! Within three days his strength was back and he could learn how to move again!
I love my husband dearly. I was angry with those who hurt him!
God is like that. He can do both.
Last year, my husband was recovering from a heart attack and still in the hospital. As far as we know, no one knows what caused it. (A clot? High blood pressure? AFIB? Something else?) But, to treat it, they wanted to make sure he didn't have another one, so they put him on blood thinners. Three to four of them.
And the result was his blood was leaking out at an alarming rate. (Over 50 units of blood needed in the space of 4 months is an alarming rate.)
They kept trying to find the source of the leak by doing a full scope of his digestive system -- often. I don't know how many blood vessels the human body has, but I am sure most of them aren't in the throat, stomach and intestines. The first time they scoped him they found some inerrant blood vessels in his digestive system. They used a word for that, but basically that happens to some people as they get older, and they're thin so they can erupt at any time. Most folks don't know they have them and they never erupt. Either way, none of them were bleeding when he was scoped and yet the doctor kept telling us they don't know if it was bleeding a moment before or a moment after.
Ends up, I question this, since when he had his fingernails cut, a nurse's aid accidentally cut his pinkie and the tiny cut dribbled for 13 hours! He lost about a pint of blood on that alone, so, yo! If it was bleeding before they got to those vessels, it was still bleeding when they got to it. That's what blood thinners do -- thin blood enough that you bleed over the slightest little thing.
Every time, he lost blood they'd scope his entire digestive system. FOUR times they did that and nothing changed.
He was in awful shape the entire time he was bleeding, because he already lost all muscle tone from atrophy from being unconscious for six weeks, and then he had to learn how to do everything all over again. (Sit up was the hardest for him.) And because he had so little blood, by very nature, he was anemic, and didn't have the strength to exercise.
Six weeks before he came home, something changed. He was supposed to stay on the blood thinners for a year, but they took him off all of them (but aspirin.) Not until a couple of months ago, when I was reading his 4000+ page file did I learn what changed.
Someone added that he had chronic AFIB. He did have AFIB one day, but we kept telling him that was it, and they kept telling us he has chronic AFIB, so we thought his heart was still fluttering wildly and he'd have to live with that. Nope. Some moron added that to his chart, and every moron after that kept believing it. Six weeks before he came home, his current cardiologist checked and fixed that.
Tada! Miracle! Within three days his strength was back and he could learn how to move again!
I love my husband dearly. I was angry with those who hurt him!
God is like that. He can do both.
