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Do you want him to tell you his story?

YES!!

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No, knowing SoP's crazy stories...

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Celebrimbor

Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:35 pm

Joined: 12 Sep 2006 Posts: 953 Location: UNKNOWN

Hey, our Official Spammer SoP gave a subtle hint he’d tell us a piece of his life. This is the only text snippet I was able to scrounge up...

sickofpalantirs wrote:

I love the odds...I can be quite lucky when it comes to contest/card draws
of course once I won a contest and ended up in the hospital but that is a LONG story

Sound cool?

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legoles3333

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:49 am

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yes definatly TELL US SOP TELL US!!!

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lem0nhead

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:02 am

Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2981 Location: Blood Island

Hehe i am intruiged to say the least....

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corvus

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:58 am

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I already know half of it, but i’d love to hear it in details.

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sickofpalantirs

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:21 am

Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 7750 Location: somwhere, over the rainbow way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

you need 1 more person...EDIT nvm you have 7 votes. let em edit it to remove the names and it should be up this afternoon.

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sickofpalantirs

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:26 pm

Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 7750 Location: somwhere, over the rainbow way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

My $30,000 Medical Lesson by SoP
(Note: I didn’t use my doctors real names so for this my orthopedic surgeon is code-named “Doctor Fred” and my pediatrician was code-named “Dr. Bob my MRI tech was renamed Mr. Ed.”)
Last year on April Fool’s Day, which was the Monday after Easter, my $30,000 medical lesson began. It was not a planned joke! It involved many people, several procedures and some pleasant surprises. Since these three aspects were interwoven throughout my lesson, I will highlight them as I tell my story.

I woke up at 5:30 that Monday morning and realized that EVERY time I moved, MY LEFT ARM HURT. I let my parents know about this. They thought that I had slept on it wrong, because I had gone to bed healthy and had not injured my arm over the Easter weekend. They told me to lie on my back on the couch and see if the pain would go away. I was not hungry, but Mom had me drink some sport drink. Around 11 a.m., I felt nauseous. After vomiting, Mom took my temperature. I had spiked a fever. And I still felt a lot of pain in my left shoulder. Mom called my pediatrician’s office. He asked me to come in right after lunch. When Dad heard about my new symptoms, he came home from work and took me to my appointment while Mom stayed home with my two brothers.

The first person who became a major person in my lesson was my pediatrician, Dr. Bob. (He told Mom later that whenever there is fever and strong joint pain, it needs to be checked.) After examining my arm, he ordered a blood test. That was my first of many pokes! My white blood count was 40,000 per ML; a normal white blood count is under 10,000 per Ml. Dr. Bob then started to look for the source of my infection. He ordered X-rays of my arm and lungs. This was painful because I had to twist my shoulder! They also did a bone scan. Both tests were negative. There was no infection in my bones.

By this time, it was late afternoon. Dr. Bob admitted me to the pediatric floor of Mary Greeley Medical Center. The pediatric nurse gave me my first pleasant surprise of the day–a small teddy bear, whom I named Poke. He stayed beside me for the rest of my hospitalization. She also poked an intravenous tube into a vein in my hand. They taped a blue Styrofoam board under my wrist to stabilize that area. They then hooked me up to a pump on a pole that held antibiotics and morphine painkiller. The medicine would flow through tubing and directly enter into my vein. I learned that being on IV solutions made it difficult to move around outside of the bed because someone had to carefully move tubing and the pole with me. If anything got twisted, the machine made a loud, constant “Beep! Beep!” The machine would also make this noise when it ran out of fluid. Even in bed, if I moved my arm too much, the tubing would twist and blast that loud sound. This made it hard to sleep well.

The nurse explained the buttons on my remote and on my bed. The top red button was a nurse call button. The bottom blue button, which was my favorite, changed the channels on the TV. The buttons on my bed allowed me to make the head and foot areas of my bed go up or down.

Dr. Bob asked Dr. Fred, an orthopedic surgeon, if he would examine my shoulder after he had seen his clinical patients for the day. I learned that this kind of doctor is an expert in bones and joints. Doctor Fred became the second major person in my lesson. He noticed that, by this time, there was swelling in my left shoulder joint. He wanted to do a needle aspiration from the joint. That meant he would use a big needle to take liquid from the swollen shoulder. This was the MOST PAINFUL, and the MOST IMPORTANT, POKE OF THE DAY. The liquid that he got out of my shoulder was FULL of infectious pus. Dr. Fred told my dad that I would have surgery that evening.
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Before surgery, I was sent to radiology for an MRI procedure. MRI means magnetic resonance imaging, and it uses magnetism and radio waves, rather than X-rays, to give detailed pictures of areas inside the body. They placed me on my back and put me in a body tube with my bear, Poke. Another pleasant surprise was that the MRI tech, Mr. Ed, was a man I knew from my Wednesday night church club. Mr. Ed gave me instructions through a window in an adjoining room. He moved the scanner to various parts of my shoulder directed by my radiologist. The radiologist is a doctor who is trained to read and understand X-rays, bone scans and MRI. He watched and talked about the images with my orthopedic surgeon and pediatrician. They were trying to pinpoint where the abscess was, so that my surgery might best get rid of the infection. This process did not hurt, but it took more than 30 minutes. Mr. Ed mainly asked me to lie still. I even feel asleep!

From the MRI, I was sent to surgery. I met another doctor, an anesthesiologist. His job was to get me into a deep sleep so I wouldn’t stir until my shoulder surgery was over. This doctor had to figure out the right amount of anesthesia gas to put into me for my size body and the length of my surgery. The last thing I remember before surgery was their putting on a mask that covered my nose and mouth. It did not hurt; it felt like putting on goggles. When I woke up, I was back on 5th floor in my bed, and the antibiotics and pain medicine were flowing into me.

Unfortunately, my first surgery did not COMPLETELY clean out the infection in my shoulder. Dr. Fred and Dr. Bob were concerned because I kept fevering and my white blood count stayed way above normal. In order to follow my situation, they ordered daily blood tests. This meant a Before-Breakfast poke EVERY MORNING. The pleasant surprise was that the laboratory technologists not only came armed with needles, but they also had special band-Aids and stickers. My dad, who works in the Mary Greeley Lab, was AMAZED at how generous some of his colleagues were with stickers! I added many stickers tomy collection at the hospital!

The day before my second surgery I got another little bear from my Wednesday night club leaders. I first named him IV, but then felt he deserved a proper name–IVAN.

On Thursday morning, two and one half days after my first surgery, Dr. Fred said that I needed a second surgery. I had to have another MRI before this surgery and got prepped for surgery during the noon hour. The anesthesiologist, Dr. Healy, gave me a Sacagawea gold dollar. During the surgery while they were inserting tubing, one of my loose front teeth came out. They decided to take the second loose one out. (These two teeth were probably the most expensive teeth in my family. The lab had shown that the infection in my shoulder was Strep A, the kind that usually causes Strep Throat. I had not had Strep Throat. But I would often wiggle my loose teeth without washing my hands. Loose teeth have a direct connection to a person’s blood system. So please learn from me–wash your hands before wiggling loose teeth!) After this surgery, Dr. Fred immediately told my parents that he felt he had gotten the infection this time.

I was saved quite a bit of pain for all the pokes when the pediatric nurse used an Emla cream before inserting a needle. But this cream takes about an hour to numb an area and stays numbed for another two hours.

It took me awhile to recover enough from my surgery to even get out of bed. After the second surgery, I was given a call button that allowed me to get morphine painkiller every ten minutes if I needed it. I spent quite a bit of time that first week watching TV and videos. Since the pediatric nurses knew I was going to be there awhile, they gave me my own TV and VCR. Many friends loaned me their favorite videos. The hospital also had a small library of videos and gave me a pamphlet so I could choose them.

Another group of people that come regularly to a patient’s room are the adult volunteers. They bring the daily menu and mail. The retired friends who live next to my home were the volunteers a few days after my second surgery. They brought me a cuddly soft raccoon, named Sammy. One mail call a package came from my cousins with this LEGOS dinosaur. Dr. Fred was wanting me to move my left arm, hand and fingers more. This toy was a fun way for me to exercise without even knowing I was doing that.

Dr. Fred was most insistent that I start regular physical therapy. Twice a day, physical therapists came to my room and worked with me. Exercises that would normally be quite easy were VERY DIFFICULT, like bending down and letting my arms dangle. My left shoulder would HURT just to do that. They also put a pulley up and had me sit in a wheelchair. They wanted me to raise my left arm. I could barely raise it.

I was released from the hospital when my white blood count was down in the normal range. But since my range of movement and strength in my left arm were still very poor, Dr. Fred prescribed three outpatient physical therapy sessions a week. I got to do my first month of therapy in a swimming pool. Then I eventually dropped to twice a week sessions in a gym setting. On July 3, Dr. Fred declared me fully recovered.

My lesson included 12 days in the hospital, 2 ½ months of physical therapy and cost over $30,000. Whenever I use my left arm, I am reminded that God used many people and several procedures to help me recover. He even blessed me with lots of pleasant surprises.

Last but not least some of you might be wondering what the heck this has to do with me winning a contest, well remember the tooth part? While i had run a coloring contest to go to seaseme street live and go backstage meet Elmo and get ice cream( it was good ice cream Wink

). But i had a loose tooth and there were mostly like some kids with strep around me so I probably got it from them. It got into my body through the teeth, and decided my shoulder looked like a nice place to set up shop.

Last edited by sickofpalantirs on Thu May 17, 2007 4:05 pm; edited 2 times in total

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Anonymous Prodigy

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:32 pm

Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 4197 Location: United States

Interesting story. Glad everything worked out. Thumbs Up

I had to put something here.

NBarden

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:34 pm

Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 5468 Location: I don't know...

Wow. I would hate to have that happen to me. I’ve never had anything worse than the flu. Oh yeah, and a broken hand where I fractured three of my fingers.

Seriously, though, I’ve fallen out of dozens of trees, treehouses, and stuff like that, and got up with nothing but a little soreness.

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