Nasty Health Crap

[x_los]

Eugh. Two IVs later, I feel a little better. Sodium Chloride 0.9% and Lactated R's Injection/H's Solution--can't remember the R and the H. Maybe tomorrow after I sleep I'll feel 100%, but if not I have a prescription for antibiotics (finally!) waiting for me there tomorrow just in case. And if I don't feel well tomorrow I'll ask for Yet More IVs. Serena was great and held my hand through my horrible needle-phobia--the size of a bloody fish hook. For like, a prize sea bass, I swear. And the drips took over an hour and a half all told. The cup of water an hour I'd been drinking weren't being absorbed or something? Anyway, I'm on fluids now, and I ate a bit of soup.

Here's to wellness, the one thing I really want now, on day three of violent illness.

Comments

[nacilmeiel.livejournal.com]

Sounds like more than three days of illness to me.

Hope you get better quickly!

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Well day three of violent, week three of illness. And thanks, me too? <3

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Augh IVs AUGH.

Hope this all helps and that you get better soon.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

You don't even know how ASS TERRIFIED of needles/IVs I am, too. I practically ripped my roommate's hand off as she pattered to me about my siblings in award-winning calming fashion. Thanks, and me too, deeply.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

Salt! The reason you cut back on salt to lower your blood pressure is that salt increases water's absorption into the body. I actually have to have an increased salt intake because my blood pressure tends to be abnormally low. This is why, when I'm going through patches of feeling sick and faint, I make sure to have a big bag of stick pretzels on hand as well as making sure I'm drinking a lot of fluid.

Also D: about the IV. ...though that's how I actually got over my fear of needles: I had to have SO MANY blood samples and IVs while they were trying and failing to figure out what was wrong with me that I just became inured to them.

Feel better! Feel lots better!

[x-los.livejournal.com]

See, I sort of wish I were in America, where someone would have TOLD ME THIS about the salt. Because while not actively avoiding salt, I certainly wasn't adding it to my food. It's not an intuitive leap: saltwater kills, why should salt help hydrate you? There is a reason, but not one silly Erin's going to blunder her way towards on the little engine that could of her logic. Also? I wish someone would have /told/ me that an IV would basically make he high all night, because I was wondering if the pounding heart and wild cocaine-y jittering was me dying. This morning I asked? Apparently that's just what the IV does.

Israel is a v. closed information culture: they don't give you info unless you specifically ask absolutely every question, and then it's a one word answer, not like an explanation. When an American would outline a sittuation or help you grasp a general concept b/c clearly you'll run into things regarding that and want to know the general scheme of things? An Israeli will say yes or no. It's the most un-Jewish thing in the entire world: a religion that ritualizes asking questions and explanation giving into its ceremonies reduced to the noncomittal bureacratic non-answer. What in hell.

You poor biscuit, re: the needles. I should always remember you've been through worse, when I feel panicked/about to die. :p And I do feel largely improved, except for the headache and the still high as a kite thing! Thanks!

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

Heh. I wouldn't say I've had it worse – my illnesses are generally of the deeply annoying and only occasionally acute sort. Generally, I find, even when I feel bad-enough off to have someone call an ambulance on me and have me carted off to hospital, I feel better by the time one of the emergency-room doctors has arrived. That's just how it works with me; half an hour of horrible abdominal pain, and then my body goes "Huh, what? No, I wasn't doing anything..."

And I'm... not actually sure that a saline IV on its own should be making you high. Painkillers or something added to it, yeah, but... ahh. That would be the R and the H, wouldn't it? </is slow>

:/ Information is GOOD. I like having it.