"Katsumoto" (katsumoto)
09/21/2015 at 08:25 • Filed to: None
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"Katsumoto" (katsumoto)
09/21/2015 at 08:25 • Filed to: None | 3
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I have some pretty serious medical issues.
AdrenalInsufficiency, hypothyroidism, Marfan’s syndrome, spontaneous pnuemothoraxes, and other stuff.
I’m currently in the hospital, its nothing new, happens alot. I’m used to it. It just gets old every time I come here. Which is the base hospital, not the VA or civie hospital. They always treat me like I don’t know my issues, I do everything to counter mine their guidance. I don’t, I take my pills, all 15 of them a day. Try to eat right and exercise. Yeah I drink liqour and smoke cigarettes. Big deal. I don’t drink in excess or go to overboard. A few drinks with friends while we play video games or cards.
Anyway, I’m in the hospital and should be out today some time. Last night, they give me a sleeping pill. I have issues sleeping, I’ve had a few sleep studies. They give me it and proceed to wake me up every chance they can. Now when I do get to sleep, I sleep pretty heavy. So they woke me up with the Sternum rub. They take their knuckles and rub pretty hard until you wake up. Now if your like me, that a good way to get punched when I wake up regardless of who you are.
So after fucking up my sleep, I was looking forward to my breakfast. French toast and an omelet. Didn’t get that. Gotsome liquid diet, after I’ve already shown I can eat regular food and hold it down. A liquid diet consists of, broth, jello, juice and either ginger ale or a 2nd fruit juice.
So they screwed up breakfast, my sleep, and all that plus being treated like I don’t manage my health. I try the best I can, my meds works some days and other days it doesn’t.
Sigh. I’m just frustrated that the people who take of me. Act like sleeping is illegal. They wake you up for them to check vitals, meds, lab work, or to ask if you need anything. If I need something I’ll call you. Its why I have a big red button.
I’m filling out the survey and being 110% honest on it. I hate coming here but I have to. I hate the way they do things. Let someone sleep, so I can feel better and ddont cause an accident leaving and end up back here.
Bad Idea Hat
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 08:31 |
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Not trying to sound like a healthy healtherson, but the smoking is what’s going to cause issues. I’ve seen studies (I’ll try to cite some shortly) that say that the recovery time from anything is increased greatly due to smoking.
edit - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1323208
DoYouEvenShift
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 08:36 |
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That sucks to hear man, I hope it gets better.
Vette gifs always make me feel better.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 08:38 |
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fuck!
you got shafted with your health at birth.
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Katsumoto
> Bad Idea Hat
09/21/2015 at 08:42 |
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My medical issues aren’t related to smoking in any way or form.
Once I get to the hospital, I getfluids, a shot of my meds. I usually start feeling better.
My recovery time is when I’m ready to leave because I’m mad, or they let me go. I’ve smoked before my medical issues. And smoked with them. My adrenal gland, thyroid,and excess collagen in my skin and joints isn’t related to smoking. Just bad genes. My uncle had the same issues and died. I got them. And I’m trying to last until I die.
My smoking is my choice. My friends who don’t, I’ll go outside and smoke. Although if they do, then smoke inside.
jariten1781
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 08:47 |
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Base hospitals are always like that. They don’t really do ‘personalized’ care in my experience. If ‘patient X’ has ‘condition Y’ then they’re going to get ‘care Z’ because it’s best practice...they don’t really delta from standard procedures much.
450X_FTW
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 08:51 |
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have you tried pot? It’ll cure most pains and sleep issues.
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Katsumoto
> jariten1781
09/21/2015 at 08:53 |
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Yea. You only get personalized care in the ICU. When you leave there, it stops.
I just hate getting what little sleep I do get ruined. Because they saw my haert rate was low. It probably happens at home when I’m sleeping. So now its a big deal because they have a computer hooked to my chest. I told em if they wake me up again for nothing, and I’d be the judge of it, in walking out. It isn’t my first time walking out.
Sam
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 08:58 |
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So basically what you’re saying is- smoking didn’t cause your issues, but you want the extra issues that smoking is going to cause? It seems like you’d be better off without emphysema, lymphoma, or the laundry list of different cancers.
Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 08:58 |
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base hospital
That’s all you needed to say. Forget the survey, contact the patient advocate (the number should be promenently displayed all over).
Back when I was in the Air Force, I had a doctor (a Major) say to me while I was going through a Medical Board, “You’re probably gonna get out and not do anything worthwhile if we Medically Separate you.”
At first I was speechless. Then I called the Patient Advocate. Never saw the guy again for medical issues, and neither did my family. Turned out he did that a couple times to other people I talked to. There are just some medical people in the military that treat patients like machine components.
JGrabowMSt
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 09:09 |
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I personally don’t have any significant health issues that send me to the hospital, but my girlfriend is a different story. She avoids hospitals because of the same reasons, and of course her bad experiences have made it difficult to really determine what the right thing is. On one hand, you want to go to the hospital, on the other, will you be taken seriously? It’s one hell of a flaw in the health care system.
I’m not about to preach anything you don’t need to hear, but I hope you feel better soon. It’s certainly no consolation to hear you’re not the only one, but my only suggestion would be to 1) see if you can go to the hospital with another person, even if they don’t stay the whole time with you, and 2) despite the potential inconveniences, maybe try a different hospital. I took my girlfriend to a different hospital a few weeks ago, and while it wasn’t the experience she was hoping for, the treatment and timing in and out were vastly improved beyond what she’s used to. Maybe it didn’t seem like it to her at first, but it meant something to me.
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jariten1781
> Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
09/21/2015 at 09:11 |
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Medical Boards were the most ridiculous process I’ve ever been through in my entire life. I recently got a DoD letter that they’re re-reviewing all PEBs from like 2001-2009 on request due to how fucked up things were during that time frame. Having a real hard time deciding whether to re-open that part of my life since it was such a shit-show and things are going great now.
Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 09:11 |
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I hear Ya. I too am not exactly medically stable. I have a growth hormone deficiency, hypothyroidism, celiac disease, crohns disease, multiple anaphylactic allergies and asthma. I've had 9 colonoscopies and I'm only 22. I hate it when people in the medical profession treat me like I don't know What I'm talking about
punkgoose17
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 09:15 |
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My wife has a lot of medical problems and is in hospitals very often. Getting good treatment is rare. Most of the time the doctors know less about her illness than we do. They often don’t want to treat her because her health issues are very complicated. There has to be someone with her in the hospital to advocate for her to get proper treatment. When I my wife is in the hospital either I need to be there or one of her parents otherwise they won’t remeber all her medicines etc. Hospitals love to stress the idea of sleep and keep the patients up until 11 pm and wake them up at 4 or 5 am, my wife complains about it every time she is in the hospital.
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Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
> jariten1781
09/21/2015 at 09:21 |
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Depends on your rating from your PEB. I got my letter a while ago and put in my request to have it re-looked at (The USAF rated me at 20% for DVT’s but glossed over the issue that required the surgeries that the DVT’s were caused by. Just need 10% more for that sweet blue ID card). If you’re already on the PDRL or got a Medical Retirement, you’re likely better off getting re-rated by the VA (go go C&P exam!) The PEB review is pretty hands off once you submit your paperwork. Mine has been in for over a year now, and I’m still awaiting the results.
NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 09:24 |
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1. I’m really sorry to hear about your medical issues and the trouble they’re causing you. That’s awful.
2. Waking up the patient repeatedly in the middle of the night is really disruptive, even if there are good intentions behind it, like checking vitals or whatever. Sure, it’s probably because The Procedure says they need to check X, Y, and Z every 3 hours and they’re done separately so now you’re getting poked every hour, but the end result is you can’t get decent sleep.
When a relative was in the hospital recently the staff was doing the same thing. Every so often some staff member would come barging in late at night, no clue what was going on with the patient, just had to draw blood, or take blood pressure, or weigh them, or whatever. It was bad.
We finally had to make sure one of us was in their room around the clock, and literally keep the staff away when the patient was sleeping unless it really was critical.
Will keep good thoughts for you, friend.
X37.9XXS
> Katsumoto
09/21/2015 at 09:25 |
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The whole “up at 6AM’ routine is actually real simple.
The night shift needs to make sure that you are not dead prior to shift change.
Otherwise, there is a ton of paperwork to complete
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Katsumoto
> NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
09/21/2015 at 09:34 |
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Its nothing new for me. I’ll be leaving soon. Its almost a home away from home. I know some of them.
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jariten1781
> Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
09/21/2015 at 09:53 |
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Yeah, I was so pissed at the whole process I never even bothered with the VA...I know I should do that, but meh, doing fine without it.
Basically what happened is I had a waiver for a condition (syncope) that I’d had for years without issues. Standard change of duty station physical and the UMO notices the new instruction has it as an unwaiverable condition and marks as Navy disqualifying. Everyone I talked to is really annoyed that I decide to appeal instead of just being medded out. Get revectored to a stash station (household goods were already packed and shipped; wife, dog, and I are in hotels for a months while that gets sorted). Start going through the PEB and appeal process trying to get a waiver approved again when the stash CO gives me a shit FITREP. All previous non-training command FITREPS were EPs, 1 of X O3s, with perfect marks across the board; the one he gives I have whatever the minimums are where he didn’t have to write a reason and terrible write-ups that would tank me at a promotion board. Conspiracy theorist in me assumes the med guys told him to sandbag me since I was being a squeaky wheel, or maybe he was just an asshole who didn’t like people being stashed at his command...So now I’m stuck at third appeal on PEB and I have to ask for a re-review of the FITREP if I ever want a chance at O5...decide to just toss in the towel and take offered 20%. Got the DD214 30 days later and washed my hands of the whole mess. I had (and still have to some degree) no desire to get in another process with the VA, especially since they lost the first packet I filled out... I was just: Nope, not going through this shit again.
Funny enough, I work as a senior engineer/program manager in design now and regularly line up on the org-chart with old shipmates who have transferred to the acquisition side. I’m basically getting paid more to do the same-ish things as them, but with no sea duty and no more changes of station...worked out in the end I suppose even though I lost a year of my life dealing with it.
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Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
> jariten1781
09/21/2015 at 10:13 |
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Damn. Just, damn. That is a shitty way to go out.
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jariten1781
> Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
09/21/2015 at 10:51 |
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Haha, that’s the sanitized version with a decade of proper perspective put on it. For a long while I couldn’t even discuss it due to transforming into an incoherent rage machine.
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Katsumoto
> X37.9XXS
09/21/2015 at 16:11 |
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Yea but i was hooked up to a pocket heart rate monitor. So that should have negated the wake up. If someones breathing and their hearts pounding away. Id let em be. Especially if a computer said the heart was working.
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X37.9XXS
> Katsumoto
09/22/2015 at 08:59 |
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It’s a base hospital. You”re not alive unless someone signs off on it