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Alloriea's journal
Pernicious Anemia
- By Alloriea · Posted November 19, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi all, I know it's been a while, I just haven't had the time or the energy to write, with working full time, seeing the psychologist, all the dr's and specialists etc. I'm lucky to stay awake long enough ...
Dr's and thier crazy orders
- By Alloriea · Posted September 25, 2009
- 3 replies
- I was in my PCPs office last week for my monthly blood work, I mentioned that I'd been having a little trouble breathing when I lay down so she did an ekg in the office, she came back and says "I think ...
The straw that broke the survivors back.
- By Alloriea · Posted July 15, 2009
- 4 replies
- So a few weeks ago I just hadn't been feeling myself, running a temp off and on, some pain and shortness of breath, I called the Dr. just to be safe and he said "come in through the ER I'll have them ...
Help??
- By Alloriea · Posted June 9, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hi all, I've recently started running a low grade fever and having pain in the front lower section of my neck, it's not a sore throat, it only hurts when I breathe deeply or change positions, laying down ...
The results,
- By Alloriea · Posted May 24, 2009
- 1 reply
- It's taken me a bit to fill you all in on my latest results. I'm so confused. I'm so tired of getting conflicting information from different dr's, One says my mitral valve is leaking and it's going to ...
The waiting game
- By Alloriea · Posted May 17, 2009
- 7 replies
- I had my last round of testing on Thursday and find myself thinking about everything the techs and nurses did and said. Does it mean anything that the girl doing my echo left twice saying she needed to ...
aggrivated yet again "-)
- By Alloriea · Posted May 6, 2009
- 1 reply
- So here we are, it's a year today since my surgery. I remember most of that day, it's what happend after that's a little fuzzy. The strange thing is for some reason I've been as basket case today. You'd ...
A year today.
- By Alloriea · Posted April 27, 2009
- 3 replies
- It was a year ago today that I was admitted into the hospital. All the tests were run, I saw all the Dr's, took all the pills they gave me, watched them try and raise my blood pressure for 10 hours in ...
New PCP
- By Alloriea · Posted April 6, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi all, I've got the first meeting with the new primary this afternoon. I've decided to truly test her patience and have come up with a list of about 30 questions for her. It's very important for me to ...
Dreams
- By Alloriea · Posted March 27, 2009
- 5 replies
- I've noticed lately that my dreams have taken on a very morbid turn, surgery, larger dissections, death, being awake during surgery, all kinds of horrible things, ohh so good for the bp when you wake ...
Almost ten months.
- By Alloriea · Posted March 22, 2009
- 2 replies
- This time last year I had just been released from the hospital for a major asthma attack. Looking back a part of me wonders if that's what it really was. It was just over a month later that I developed ...
Dissability
- By Alloriea · Posted March 12, 2009
- 7 replies
- Ok I'm back to do a little ranting. A friend of mine today says, I don't know why you bother trying to work, why not just file for social seciruty disability. I tried explaining to her that there are ...
BP how low is too low
- By Alloriea · Posted February 25, 2009
- 12 replies
- Hi everyone, Quick question for you all, I've tried calling my dr's tonite and haven't received a response so I thought I'd check in here. I know ther dr's are trying to keep my bp low to keep the dissection ...
COPD and Heart Disease
- By Alloriea · Posted February 4, 2009
- 3 replies
- Ok Ladies, just when I thought I'd heard it all, my Dr's have now decided I have copd rather than asthma, I'm seriously gonna stop going to all these drs and just treat myself, one scoop of fatfree icecream ...
The past couple of months....
- By Alloriea · Posted February 2, 2009
- 3 replies
- The holidays were crazy for me this year, trying to do the things I've always been expected to do and realizing I didn't have the energy, I didn't even put up a tree. My husband offered to do it for me ...
Am I over reacting?
- By Alloriea · Posted January 31, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi All, I know it's been forever, my bp meds have been doubled three times since my last post, between that working, and trying to keep my house to some fraction of clean all my spare time has been sleeping ...
Tomorrow
- By Alloriea · Posted November 18, 2008
- 4 replies
- Well, tomorrows the day ladies, I'm seeing yet another surgeon, this one is a specialist in Aortic Dissection and Diseases of the Aorta. I have to say I'm nervous about this one, I don't know what to ...
Six months yesterday,
- By Alloriea · Posted November 7, 2008
- 4 replies
- May 6th, that day will be in my mind forever. I died that day and came back. I still feel a little jipped, there was no white light for me, no memories of my life passing before my eyes, just hearing ...
Hello all, just a little interesting (to me at least) info.
- By Alloriea · Posted November 1, 2008
- 7 replies
- Hi Guys, Hope all is well with everyone, just wanted to drop a little note to fill you all in on something you may have been having problems with. Ever since my surgery it seemed that every few weeks ...
Mind blowing moments.
- By Alloriea · Posted October 11, 2008
- 19 replies
- I found myself compiling a list of my Dr's, for yet another Cardio-Thoracic surgeon this morning and realized that in the past five months ( ok 5 months 5 days) I've had a few mind blowing moments so ...