Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Rome #7 D I got sick in Rome

ok it says its been publish on august 24...it proably happened 20-21


After my walk in the splendid il Foro di Roma, I came back to the hotel.
I saw the purser of my flight on the corner street and we went together to do our grocery and finish the night like all the italians at the gelato corner store.

I had a pistachio and chocolate gelato too cool myselve off
at this time, its still very hot and sticky around 9 30 ish

Back in my room, I rushed to take a shower
what I saw was ugly:
This can not be my legs!
Oh MY GOD!

ok
calm down, think fast.

In the gelato parlor, perhaps the girl touch the fica gelato with her spoon
I'm allergic to figue
but no Im breathing it usualy chock me so its not it

Of course! Im looking for my first aid bag
Big bag of medication is not there!
I took it out of my suitcase to get my suitcase fix  a week ago and I didnt put it back

My legs are cover in red, hot red, fire red, firemen red, got it!
both my calves are cover with red stuff
some on my knees and over my right leg upper part
it doesnt look like pimple but just a big thick red stuff
ok

need to take action

get some benadryl just in case this thing gets worst
skype my sister for help she is a nurse

but first I need to take a shower
I need to call the purser, that I work with, that its possible that I have to go to the hospital
need to take the benadryl

STOP!
HOLD ON!
BREATH IN!
THINK!
BENADRYL FIRST in case Im allergic to this
ADVIL X STRENGHT TO REDUCE THE SWELLING

TAKE A SHOWER to THINK SOME MORE
CALL THE PURSER
in case I dont show up the next day as he saw me well and good

something I ate
had 2 croissants from the hotel when I left
and had
cold cuts and a glass of wine at the butcher and bread


took half the meal home for next day lunch
had 2 things I didnt know what they were but taste great


I dont know!
jump in the shower
dont like it
can not put soap on this
and I certainly dont want that on my hands
I want be able to work
wash upper body
and spray with full cold shower to reduce the swelling

I took a bite of an olive that horrible olive I ate that perhaps it wasnt an olive but a figue
or simply so old like century old olive it was poisoned me
i dont know
no

I was breathing fine

insect bug
dont see anything particular

oh shit!

now I really bend down to look at this nightmare
my toes are getting numbs
shit

ok

calling the receptionist
saying i might need a taxi please stand by I might go to the hospital

i get up to unlock my door in case i pass out
so now, lets see if my sister wrote me something

shit!
the battery cell is getting dead on me
quick plug it on the tv
while I clean up my room, pack everything just in case and think some more

im just dehydrated maybe
obvious
i have been walking outside at 40 degrees celsius

drink some water
ok

the bloody cell phone cord of samsung s 5
fuck its only 10 cm
how do you want me to call
I have to get up next to the tv
i dont feel my freaking legs
in the previous room i had in this hotel when I was there 2 days ago
there were no 2 holes plugs
Italy plugs! 3 you need 3

so I was not thinking of looking for more and went on tv like everyone told me to do

my legs are stiff
toes are numb white beside big toe
calves red
the rest of my body is normal

and because I took a shower the red is
deeper red now

it was just a nightmare
I would get on my bed and lift my legs
that seem to cool off the pain
as soon as I bring them down my toes gets numb
so I will get up at the sound of my cell phone to see what my sister wrote
but then after a while....
the battery went completely dead

it was not charging the bloody cell shit!

I finally saw a plug with 2 holes
plug it in and waited

but big mistake here
dangerous mistake here
what if all this situation turn out to the worst

I will never go to sleep with pain again and did what I did
I could have die
but I didnt want to go to the hospital and wait
i was so tired
jet lag name it

and now in shock
in freakin shock to see my legs getting bigger
numb
I have to wiggle my toes really didnt feel them

the benadryl and the advil for night x strenght
put me to sleep
dangerous really...

fell asleep but what if ...

so on the other side of the ocean
My 2 sisters and my mom are worried sick because Im not answering them back
you see, luckily in a sense, that I'm so fucked up with jet lag and siesta on board the plane of an hour,
that my body thought, I was doing a siesta on board the plane ( flight over 8 hours we are allowed to sleep)

So after an hour of deep sleep, I got up.
I got up!
can I move my legs ?
great!
I got up!
My toes are still numbs and red.

So I red my sister message on skype: We are going to call the airline company to have the phone number of the hotel.

They thought I had passed out!
Well maybe I did I dont know I think I was sleeping.

So I wrote them back
I was  fine
battery cell phone off
slept in so
I should be fine
Dont worry
The next morning, I saw what my other sister message, she said that I had to take this seriously probability of a phlebite or embolia

but I red the message too late like the next day

The problem is if I had wore my dress that day, I would have not been able to put my nylons on
but since I was wearing pants, I was able to work the flight back
but it wasnt a good idea
i was hoping to be relief by the pilots or the crew but
no one mention anything for me to stay around and go to the hospital.
they should have told be go to the hospital.
but no one suggested it and I felt bad to leave them short of one crew like usual






purple mark disappear
difficult to take picture its dark in the hotel room



no flash on cell
the next day
it was not brilliant
i had to put nylon socks on
and this aggravated my case especially on board it kind of cut the circulation
my legs were so big



it was redder then previously
this is what worried me that the color had change over the time
but during the flight, after my service, I would sit next to the door, freezing door to keep my legs cool and would put my feet on the cold floor hoping not to get an urinary infection because of this
I didnt want the redness to go any further up
my ankle were swollen and my calves
but because I was walking here and there, this help not to get my toes numbs but as soon as I would stop it will get numb.

so its either I walk or I put it on the cold floor.
to give you an idea how cold it is in the back of a plane I will show you this is how the other girls look like when we work in the back of the plane they put on a duvet to keep warm



I didnt maybe I had fever and didn't realised it


so after my 8 hours overseas flights and 10 hours duty
I drove home 1 hour and stop at the hospital

Its around 16:30
I told the nurse what happened
how I feel
but he didn't seen to be preoccupied and called what I had a rash
hello
I just told you I don't feel my toes
my body is swollen
this rash changes color
It could be contagious
but no worry here, go sit down, with the others big deal

Im just a # 5 priority
I understand but since it happened at work, I need to go see a doctor
its the week end
clinic are closed.
So Im here for a long time
I waited 19 hours
12 hours
the last time i came in for the gelatine envelop surrounded my eye that pop up and was completely destroy on the plane, they made me wait that long to tell me there was no specialist to see me that day
fuck we are talking about my eye here
so imagine now
but I had no choice again
it happened at work




while I wait I really need to keep my legs up as soon as I bring it down it feels bad painful

I think babies and workers should have priorities over playing people smokers and drunk people





my toes  my feet my ankle are so big
numb I have to keep them moving
but I'm tired here


You can tell the feet its huge, numb and the pain now is unbearable


over my toes the pain is so big its awful I wont be able to stay that long wait in pain



strange color 

here the pain is so intense I can no longer suffer like this, so I take some advil,  get up to change my mind to buy a coffee to eat my cookies that I brought for my mom and when I came back, I had lost my place that give me the chance to raised my legs and I could no longer leave my legs down either 
it was full of blood on the floor or crumbs of food. Disgusting. 


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ici la douleur est tellement intense que je ne peux pu endurer ca, la douleur a augmenter sur le dessus de mes pieds, je me prend 2 advils et je me change les idées et je vais m'acheter un cafe pour manger avec mes 2 biscuits aux amandes que j avais rapportes pour a mere et ma soeur car je cogne des clous pour moi il est 3 heures du matin je n entendrai pas mon nom si je dors et quand je suis revenue j avais perdu mes 3 bancs donc je ne pouvais plus garder ma jambe élevée et je ne pouvais plus mettre mes pieds sur le plancher froid parce qu il y avait des gouttes de sang partout




5 heures a attendre 5 heures on ne me rappelle pas au triage rien
j attend sans soin
sans pain killer
sans glace
sans compresse d eau froide pour mettre sur mes jambes
et impossible de garder ma jambe droite dans les airs  qui a ce moment est la plus penible
au triage on ne me rappelle pas non plus pour un suivi de mon état rien
les ambulances affluent en repitition
ma position pour voir un medecin reste la meme 83 ieme sur 101
personne n est appellé sauf pour les inscriptions

Je décide donc de plier bagage, je suis a bout, décolage horaire, boulot 8 heures de vol, ma souffrance est trop grande et je sais que dans mon sac de médicament de voyage pour l'Ethiopie,  j'ai de quoi pour calmer la douleur et j'ai de la glace dans le frigo.

Je me suis installée devant la fenetre du triage le temps de remettre mes souliers et de voir qu'on me fasse signe d'entrer a nouveau mais non.

Rien!

A L HOPITAL DE ST JEROME ILS ATTENDENT QUE VOUS SOYEZ MORTS AVANT DE FAIRE QUELQUES CHOSES QUELLE GENRE DE MEDECINE PRATIQUENT ILS

LE MASOCHISME

ON VA A L 'HOPITAL PARCE QU'ON EST EN DOULEUR
AYEZ AU MOINS L' OBLIGEANCE D' ALLEGER NOS SOUFFRANCES QUELQUES PEU
COMPASSION
GLACON
ET MEDICATIONS

et en plus je ne pouvais plus remettre mes souliers mes pieds étaient trop enflés
j'ai du faire tout le tour de l'hopital a noirceur en marchant nu pied
moi je déteste marcher nu pied, j'enleve mes souliers que pour dormir ca vous donnes tu une idee
meme pas dans la maison je déteste marcher nu pied.
la je n ai pas le choix
Sauf pour les escaliers en métal avec des spikes, j'ai du forcer mes pieds a entrer dans mes chaussures
je pleure jusqu'a la voiture et la, j'ai mal sur le coté gauche maintenant.

Je ne prends jamais les bonnes décisions, j'aurais du booké off a  Rome et aller a l'hopital mais comme je travaillais je ne voulais pas manquer au boulot.

Bien oui, j'ai pris encore la mauvais décision pensant me faire soigner au Québec dans ma langue
les infirmiers et infirmieres au triage a l'hopital de St Jerome sont d'une pure incompétence

a
b
c

airway
bleeding
circulation

we have a problem of circulation here
allergy perhaps
infection perhaps
contamination perhaps

Get your protocole book here and read it!

I went to the hospital to save the world
to save all the 286 passengers I brought back to Quebec
to save my family
to protect them from catching this shit
you dont know if its contagious
In Europe kids dont get vaccine it could be rubellia shingles name it!

worst the purser and the pilot should have refuse me to board the plane as I was not fit to fly
but they didnt
hey
tought luck
he did the same thing when I lost the sight of my vision on board this pilot ( 5-or 6 months ago the gelatine envelop that surround my eye pop during the flight to Geneva)
the pilot couldnt careless) now I was stuck with the same pilot dam!


so I got out the hospital, got to my jeep and drove back home in pain as I was unable to push the pedal properly I drove with the hazard on all the way home.
in the rain I arrived home.
At first, I wanted to sleep in my jeep but I got scared and decided to go home.

I had to walk outside in the rain barefeet
in the wet the rocks
and get one suitcase out for my medication
couldnt find my cell phone to light me up to open the door shit
arrived home without my dog i hate it
the cat is there but its not the same

I slept on the coatch hoping to get up early and return to the hospital
I figure I was number 83 and in 5 hours they didnt call anybody while I was there so I was good to sleep at least 5 hours.
more and more ambulance had came in, it was hell 101 patient at the hospital
mostly old people
old smokers
but I saw 2 babies waiting
usually they have priority
and a lot of patient with influenza were coughing and were spreading it among us
they were not in a confine area and either wearing a mask.

Im there for something I dont want to come out of there with influenza or any shit like this

Anyway, during the night, I didnt like this at all, I had waking up 4 times with pain in my heart
that stop me from breathing even sitting up.
so I drove back to the hospital and sat at triage again.
took another number since she was not calling me
and then explain what happened, she refused to keep my first number active
They were calling  79 I had 83
She said I went back home
I was not aloud
No one toldme
Yes you are aloud to eat for 1 hour
No one told me that either
Its the rules
Its not written anywhere lady
She is young and bitching at me
I should leave I dont need this shit. Listen up, I was there for 5 hours you didn't call me. There was one person at inscription who called my name, when I got there, she said she didn't call me and the other lady was busy with another person (another person with the same name as mine)
OMG! Not good. I went back to my seat, she called me again but this was just for the inscription
you never called me, madame. She said she did around midnight
I was gone, I arrived around 4 ish. I Left around 9 ish. I"m suffering, I'm jet lag (i wanted to tell her im jet lag here lady and worked a fucking flight back home sick but I didnt )

Of course if you are calling me at midnight, I wasnt there and it's a bit too late too find out how is your patient at triage doing 8 hours later!
What ever...I have reaccuring heart problems here, can you pass me an ECG than
to check my heart.
You told me you were fine now
Yes but it happened 4 times during the night
Its too late, there is no need to do that, unless you are feeling the pain
It must be anxiety
Oh well, that was it
Because you are old, a woman, and having heart problem You call my problems: anxiety
listen up you dont know what it is to work with 280 passengers during 8 hours non stop with a pressured cabin, jet lag effect, driving home either. Do you really think I would waist my time here just for anxiety problem for god sake I know first aid. I am waiting for an appoitnment at the institute of cardiology, I suffer from hypothyroid, tachycardie and you are telling me I have anxiety


Meanwhile, there is someone calling her, telling her, someone fell on the ground.
she stays right there, not moving an inch, on the plane, we run to see what is the problem
no she sits right there, call someone else to pick up the patient, the patient comes in with the help of a person, he is litteraly on the floor she looks at him without any auscultation, and says with her nonchalant attitude its probably kidney stone, sit him on a chair saying: I have another patient to assist.

ok from me, the anxiety patient, to a kidney stone patient, wich one do you choose to assit
hello lady your priorities are fuck up for sure here!

she sat down and said I can probably give you tylenol
you got to be kidding
its says on the screen Im allergic to tylenol
what else
I think Im better off to leave and go to the other hospital
I had enough

went home to get my dog
and stayed home
why bother going to another place and to tell me bull shit

I had 2 more heart pains and lay down with my legs up with cortisone cream I put on and stay home doing nothing.

The red is less red, the toes were getting numb again, late in the afternoon, I was doing a bit of fever 37 I usually have 34 35 so
Will go see my own doctor hoepefully if he dare to see me
its the week end here.
I have a bit of a short breath so don't want to take a chance and if I need an epi pen I will get one
So last night, I called to take an appointment, in case Im not able to see my own doctor
well 8 oclock and 14 minutes the clinic in St-Sauveur is already full
what can I say?
This morning I'm waiting its 9 oclock to see my own doctor if not
will have to sit my ass at the other hospital because I need to find out what happened
I'm going back to Rome on Thursday.


OK change of plan, here my doctor work in the Laurnetians as well in Gaspesie region so Im doum, I have to go to the hospital but this time, I'm going to Ste Agathe.

lucky day
well
there was hardly anyone
the triage nurse was there, waiting for me no time to sit down
woa
she was so nice to me
too me seriously
and i ended up # 3
going for a ECGand spending the day in observation
not knowing what i have and why i had heart problem sharp pain at many occasions like 7 times since saturday night
so
they look at my legs with that red rash, heavy and thick but less then the previous day, it was going away but why it happen why...
blood test
more blood test
pressure
o2
plug in
and wait
wait wait
doctor comes why
less than 5 hours here
a record in Quebec for sure
or I am in big shit
kind of

We dont know
investigation is on its path
so they pull me out of the room now im in th middle of the corridor somehting i hate
and in front of the doctor

dont feel good here at all but have no choice if I want to know what happen
so around 5 ish at night, I have my release from the hospital
I'm free to go
Just got some cream and I should be fine

and oh yeah!
need to see the cardiologist and go to the interne medecine department

Woa! This is not the kind of souvenir I want to bring back from Rome.

heat wave
dishydrated
headache huge headahe different then migraine
walking fast
up the hill down the hill

when i first enter the site
I couldnt walk
i was kind of stop by my feet I couldnt put a foot in front of the other
god knows...

The result says: probability of vasculite idiopathic

I was # 5 at the first hospital
I was #3 at the other hospital

Today the day after
I feel like shit
went to run some errands bread milk and butter and the cream
It was like going to Mount everest
did the laundry
call for rendez vous with the doctors
man I had to send this by fax
Is that ever ridiculous in 2016
Why cant we take a picture and send it my email
Im sick
Im not feeling good and I have to drove to the village again shit
There was a phone number on the form so I didnt pay attention when they give me the paper
its a freaking fax number
omg
my sister brought dinner
stay on the sofa all day after that
doing not much
pain in my back
breathing bizare
leg stiff
toes are feeling electric shock again

hospital call me to say they will call me again
the legs now are turning brownish...

keep you posted
I know better
I should know better I know first aid
and again I acted like a person in denial that I will be fine
but I wasnt...

The worst now is to be home and imagine if I call the ambulance they will never know where to go because no one knows how to get here im not on the GPS machine
so 4 minutes for brain dammage will occur for sure
this is my last thinking

and I dont have an epi pen either

The hospital didnt call me back either....
So I guess im good to go to work

My legs are itchy now I bought some diabetic socks because they are bigger but still to tight redness is gone but now its itchy at times I sitll put the cream on. Its worst at night.

But got to go to work need to feed the dog and the cat. Can not afford to loose money here but



what is vascularite circulation problem what do you do to solve it prevent it or cure it I have no fucking clue no one knows about this not much info on this either as they are different types of this shit the blood cell thicken...you get a rash you get numb your body inflate my eyes hurts
I dont know....

final verdict after seing the interne doctor

a virus
for the edema, numbness of the feet, headache, pain to my feet, feet so big wont fit in my hsoes again...

and when i went back to Rome I cought


bed bug

to top it up

now my freaking legs look like a pizza

thank you Rome
not sure you are my favorite city now!


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follow up

after this event the institut de cardiologie in Montreal finally gives me an appointment
to see a cardioligist

went to see him
right away he puts me on sandoz

the next week another appointment to get the machine for 10 days

unfortunately nothign work
im dead no energy
laying down on the coatch
feeling like vomitting
not to good to test my heart
but i try as much as i can to do my regular life bt almost impossible
if i recall went to cut the grass
the next day i was in pain
and dead on the coatch again
they wanted me to go ot work with this machine
ya right im not going to sound the alarm and scare 476 passengers no
so i return the mahcine with not too much success for the test
right away after my family doctor wants to see me and the cardiologist is scheduling me for more test
the mahcine test
the effort test with drugs
so since im having pain chest like knife stabbing now i take this very seriously
so book off for my long nice lay over in new york i was looking forward to go
book offf my last Rome that i was looking forward to do but
my heart nad my situation doesnt wait especially at 40,000 feet  up in the air

so i go see my regular doctor
that day i really had diarrhea

he tells me to cut in half the heart pill
prescribe me some pumps
give me some cream for my pimples
and that was it

on wednesday i go od those test
first day fine its the rest test no problem there
the next day well
after the injection the test with another cardiologist and giving me another injection i get out of there to eat
i was feeling drug
change myself walk with difficulty open the door
and decided to stay there
i hang up on the ramp
and decided to sit down i was not feeling good at all i was so tired
people try to help me
they finally put me on a wheel chair
went to eat
did not fell good
felt really drug
then went back up
got change again i almost collapse in there
not feeling good at all
than the nurse who injected me ask me my name he didnt know who i was bizarre he was the one who injected me
than he ask me at what time i was supposed to be there
i told him at 3
bizarre
i went to do the test
the nurse was really mean telling me i move she had to do it agian...
very mean not pleasant at all
so i waited for the result
my sister came to see me i told her what happened i couldnt text her
she told me to tell someone but i said no one is there or want to talk to me
so when somone came to me to tell me the result were fine i told them what happen the guy took the time carefully to look at the result
he came back and told me everything was fine i had a heart of a 20 years old an should go home but i say what about my stabbing pain
nothing to worry go home
well
the next day i was watching tv and had another stabbying pain

so i did all the test for nothing
no one is taking me seriously

today im going for another test at another hospital this one is at night time im not sure i should go

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