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[GoneButNotForgotten]

...absolute *ell.

It started with a UTI that tried to kill me. I ended up in the ICU...which I hated but I must admit was entertaining when the old man who sounded like Grandpa Simpson started yelling something unintelligible and the cops showed up a while later,,,I don't know if the two incidents were connected but they sure were funny.

But it wasn't so funny when the UTI got so bad they put me in the ICU. The nurses were and very kind and understaning about my embarassment when they took all my clothes off and literally hosed me down...and they had to do this several times.

Right now I'm doing a little better but I'm bothered by the fact I can't show my arms--they look pretty beat up (I've had other medical "issues"). And people can be so rude: I've had complete strangers ask me about them. I usually tell them I was in a car accident and that shuts them down pretty quickly. But sometimes I'm really astounded by how rude/unthinking people can be.

[hopi]

Getting close to death is a humbling and frightening experience.

Glad you are on the mend.

[DrakesMomma]

@GoneButNotForgotten   -  Glad you are on the mend.  Keep giving them answer to shut them up!  

[LindaSal]

Happy you are feeling better @GoneButNotForgotten .   Being sick is not for sissy's!  I know what you mean regarding people's remarks.  After having chemo many years ago now, I was left with a pretty bad port scar and I was astonished at times what people would say to me.  If they asked what happen I would simply reply "cancer" and like you said, that usually shut them up.  I did have the scar revised by a plastic surgeon and today it is hardly noticable.  Being right on the decollete it was hard to cover up.

Hang in there, keep up the good fight

[Alsace Gal]

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@GoneButNotForgotten wrote:

...absolute *ell.

It started with a UTI that tried to kill me. I ended up in the ICU...which I hated but I must admit was entertaining when the old man who sounded like Grandpa Simpson started yelling something unintelligible and the cops showed up a while later,,,I don't know if the two incidents were connected but they sure were funny.

But it wasn't so funny when the UTI got so bad they put me in the ICU. The nurses were and very kind and understaning about my embarassment when they took all my clothes off and literally hosed me down...and they had to do this several times.

Right now I'm doing a little better but I'm bothered by the fact I can't show my arms--they look pretty beat up (I've had other medical "issues"). And people can be so rude: I've had complete strangers ask me about them. I usually tell them I was in a car accident and that shuts them down pretty quickly. But sometimes I'm really astounded by how rude/unthinking people can be.

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@GoneButNotForgotten 

My dear sister had a UTI for months, she was given antibiotics, none of which helped her.

It wasn't until I found her on the floor of our hallway, she was incoherent. I called paramedics and when she was stabilized and several test was done that the doctors found she was given the wrong antibiotics. She suffered for months.
She needed an antibiotic which can only be administered by a physician in a hospital.

I'm so glad you're doing better, and your arms, forget about it. Rude people don't deserve a response. You owe them nothing.

[cindyNC]

@GoneButNotForgotten UTIs can be challenging.  Glad you are on the road to recovery and were able to go thru the experience with a sense of humor. 

[I am still oxox]

@Alsace Gal  

She needed an antibiotic which can only be administered by a physician in a hospital

Isn't that true with most antibiotics, maybe I am missing something here

[GoneButNotForgotten]

isn't that true with most antibiotics

You are. I've had tons of antibiotics and I don't remember any of them being injected or administred by/in a hospital.

[Still Raining]

Glad they treated you well in the ICU and everything cleared up.

[pigletsmom]

@I am still oxox 

All antibiotics get prescribed by a doctor but there are some that you get by IV for a UTI so you have to be admitted which is what she was talking about.