On Mar 6, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Ray Druian wrote:
I hope I can make it, but I've had a bit of a problem this past week. Last Thurs., after my class, I apparently lost consciousness rather suddenly, and I fell on my face, breaking a whole bunch of bones that hold my left eyeball in my head. I woke up in the ER and spent the next 4 days in the U of U hospital, where a whole bunch of other problems asserted themselves. Seems I was pretty lucky because I also broke my neck, but still managed to go home on my own steam Sunday night. Sadly, I'm sore all over, and one of my problems, BPH, threw the hospital staff into a tizzy and they overtreated me by shoving a tube up my wanger and telling me that it had to stay there for a week until an urology appointment nest Monday. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and I was just back there and had it removed, much to my joy. So I'm now peeing on my own, which I wish they'd had let me do ever since last Thursday. But what the hey, I'm not a medical doctor so I obviously don't know anything about my own body and what it can do and not do. Point is, after I get done checking out my mail and other comfuser stuff, I'm headed home and plan to stay there for most of the rest of the week. I may or may not venture out on Saturday.
Incidentally, I have a history of fainting from low blood sugar, but these yahoos didn't bother to check for that, and they essentially told me that since they didn't look for it, they didn't find it, and thus I can't possibly have that problem, even though it's well documented in my medical records from when I was still living in California. Since Ca is a blue state, anything in my records there is suspect here in Utah, anc can't possibly be believed. So now I've been fitted with a heart monitor too, since it must have been a heart problem that caused me to faint. They did an echocardiogram and it showed that my heart is pretty strong for a guy in his seventies, but they also found that I have a right atrial bundle block, which is actually a congenital condition that I was told about when I was in my early twenties. But no, I couldn't possibly have known about it before they found it here. I'm obviously imagining that my brother, who is ten years older than me, has the same condition. Do I sound bitter? Let me add that I was treated by a "team," one member of which badmouthed another when he contradicted that other person's findings about my prostate. Sure does give one confidence about these guys!
Anyhow, the bottom line is, I'll either show up Saturday or I won't. . -- Thanx, *Ray
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