Posts by steeleagle152

I guess you can just pick whatever doctor you want in the year, as long as they actually have an opening available.

Maybe try talking to your primary care doctor first. Then you could head to a psychiatrist and see what they think, too. I guess just explore every single option available. It might be worth reaching out to Medicare to see how they handle things at the start. Just blast emails to every address you can find.

Elizabeth Williams95 said:I'm wondering about the exact same thing, and I need an answer ASAP!
Thanks

It's Dr. Domagoj Slavić over at Rudeš. He does odd mornings and even afternoons, I guess.

I'm not entirely sure how things work these days, but I guess it used to be that you’d pick a new doctor first and then they'd just handle sending your records over to them. Maybe that's still the case, or maybe something changed. I don't know.

Ashley Smith54 said:Thanks for the support and the advice... my mom passed away this past Monday... I just want to wish all the other families going through something similar the very best and lots of strength..

I am so sorry for your loss. 😢

I have an appointment with my primary care doctor tomorrow, so I'll probably just ask him then. I took some Tylenol yesterday, which brought my fever down, and it hasn't come back yet, I guess. I'm not entirely sure if those were actual episodes or something else, but I'll see how I feel by tomorrow. Maybe I should get some blood work done just to see what's actually going on. 🤷

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Thanks for the link, but I’ve actually already read through that. I woke up with a fever today, which is kind of worrying, I guess. It’s been about four weeks since my surgery, so maybe my immune system is just bottoming out and I'm catching a cold. My nose is stuffed up and my head is pounding, though honestly, the headache could just be from hitting my head or even just this crazy weather we're having lately. I really hope it isn't anything serious, because the more I try to look up my symptoms online, the less I seem to understand and the more anxious I get.

My husband’s got seven screws in his leg right now. He can't really walk on his own yet, so he's stuck using crutches since he isn't allowed to put any weight on it. I guess the ribs might actually be a bigger issue, because they're hurting him pretty bad.
As for giving up riding, he hasn't quit, but I think I have. We have a 10-year-old daughter, and honestly, I just want to stay healthy enough—and more importantly, stay ALIVE—for her.

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I’m also living without a spleen now. I actually had mine removed about three weeks ago, though nobody has really given me any actual guidance yet, other than the rule that I can't lift anything heavy or do any strenuous work for the next three months. I guess I was wondering if anyone here is also living without a spleen and could share what that’s been like? Like, do you take specific supplements or vitamins and stuff? And what about vaccinations? I already got my pneumococcal shot, but I’ve been reading things online about strep and Haemophilus, so I'm curious about that too. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

So, here’s my experience dealing with doctors. My husband and I were in a wreck—some idiot on a motorcycle blew through a stop sign and nearly killed us. I ended up with a broken leg and cracked ribs. They checked me out in the ER, but they completely missed that I had a massive scrape, so when I finally got to X-ray, I bled all over the floor. The tech asks where I'm bleeding from, and honestly, I was so dazed I barely knew my own name, let alone what was happening. Anyway, moving on. They discharged me saying everything was basically fine, just a little banged up. That first night, though, I’m coughing up blood. I head back the next day, they run a CT scan on my head, and *then* they realize I have a maxillary sinus fracture. Fine. They send me home again. Everything seems okay for five days, until then excruciating abdominal pain kicks in. I go to my primary care doctor, and he sends me straight back to the hospital. They examine me, and thank God, I run into this incredible doctor (he was from New York and seriously handsome...🙂), who orders a CT with contrast. Turns out, my spleen was enlarged and had a hematoma. I was rushed into surgery that same night to have my spleen removed, and once they actually opened me up, they realized it had been ruptured and slowly bleeding the whole time. I was basically a hair's breadth away from sepsis and death. Honestly, the negligence was just top-tier.

I'm looking for a solid GP on the west side of town (maybe around Spanish, Crossroads, Brooklyn, or Lake Tahoe...)

@mistyjackal842:
I know things are tough since you lost a parent, but I guess generalizing isn't really helpful. I’ll pivot slightly here, if that's okay. So, just the other day, I got back from a hospital in New York City where I had to undergo a pretty intense surgery to remove my spleen after a car accident. Honestly, on the surgical floor at HB, there aren't any bad nurses. Every single one of them was friendly, caring, and hardworking... doctors were the same way. On the flip side, right after the crash, my husband and I went to the ER, and they basically brushed us off like it was nothing. They completely missed my sinus fracture, let alone the ruptured spleen. It’s a good thing I went back when I did, otherwise I might have ended up with sepsis or something much worse. So, based on my most recent experience, I suppose there are some bad doctors at those NYC hospitals, but there are also some truly top-tier professionals.

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To everyone out there fighting this thing, just keep at it and crush that monster. I guess I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy 2014.

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My dear dad lost his fight with that monster tonight. :'(

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Ashley Murphy said:thankfully, we aren't mentioning doctors with the same name 🙂

I guess they’ve got this new scheme going on now where they just list patients as outpatients, which basically means you don't even have a theoretical chance of getting admitted to a different hospital... problems start popping up the moment you try to admit someone to an ER at another facility... it doesn't really matter that in our case the local clinic doesn't do that, or that based on where we live we belong to Johns Hopkins Hospital... the fact that the doctor at the clinic couldn't consistently prescribe antibiotics for steeleagle152's dad leads me to believe it's all part of the same process...

The doctor at the clinic wrote my dad a prescription for an antibiotic that the doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital had requested, even though it technically goes against protocol, but at the same time she sent a memo to her colleague noting that she'd handle the next round of antibiotics herself. It's just one person blaming the other for the mistakes. 🤷

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It isn't really a matter of whether they can or can't help, it’s more about whether they actually want to. My dad is quite a wealthy man, and we're all well aware of that, but I don't think that gives anyone an excuse to just let him suffer and give up on him. Most doctors are just clocking in and out, doing what they're forced to do. I guess that basically means they don't really care that much.

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His GP basically ignored the standard protocols and prescribed an antibiotic because she actually understands how much he's suffering. Dad hasn't been able to swallow anything for over two months now, so Mom just administers the meds through his feeding tube. I honestly don't get how they can discharge someone this sick with a condition like this. It feels like they just want him to die at home instead of taking responsibility for their care. It's honestly awful.

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mistyjackal842 said:steeleagle152
I'm guessing you mean Johns Hopkins since you mentioned he's going there for radiation.

Yeah, it's definitely Johns Hopkins. They basically sent him home and told him his primary care doctor would have to prescribe an antibiotic that she isn't even allowed to give him. According to the new regulations, the hospital should have handled the prescription themselves. I guess it’s just one of those situations where nobody seems to know who's actually in charge or responsible.

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Update: Dad barely made it through the weekend. We had to call 911 three different times because he couldn't catch his breath. They ended up giving him IV meds to stabilize him. He went in for radiation today, but after they ran some blood work, the results weren't looking great. They sent him for lung scans, and of course, it turns out he has pneumonia. They just sent him home. I'm honestly at a loss for words. :'(

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Emily Ruiz93 said:I'd actually be interested in this too, please. 😍

Is anyone there? Honestly, I'm kind of in a rush here... I have no clue where to even start. And I guess there are quite a few of us who could really use that info if you shared it. 🙂