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Miss Vee's blog: "Hell If I Know..."

created on 11/12/2007  |  http://fubar.com/hell-if-i-know/b153420

My best friend

Three days ago, I was called by one of my best girl friend's hubbys and asked if I had any antibiotics for his wife, who was having severe pains in her lower abdomen, which seemed to travel from side to side. Felt gassy, but very painful. She also was getting the chills, and had a few other inconvenient symptoms reminiscient of a Urinary Tract Infection. I took them some stuff I'd had from when I had a UTI last year, and also told him to get her some Lactaid, in case it was lactose intolerance. Night before last, he had to take her to hospital...the pain was too severe. Found out that she should've been dead, in fact. She hadn't gone a doctor in about 20 years, she's 41 and for some reason never thought it necessary to go all this time, and they found she had diverticulitis - a common digestive disease particularly found in the large intestine. What they also found, and was what they considered to be more urgent, was that she's anemic, and her white blood cell count was quite low. They had to give her 2 units of blood and volume expanders to try to get the blood count up. Well, yesterday, I visited her after work for about 20 minutes, then had to go to a previous engagement. She went to use the restroom a few hours later, and her intestine burst while she was in there. She sat there, crying and screaming, not realizing there was a nurses' call button, for 15 minutes, before help arrived in the form of her 16 year old nephew, who heard her screams down the hall. No fuckin' nurse had come to check on her, and none had heard her, even though they were closer to her room's open door than even her nephew had been upon hearing her in distress. They took her to get a Cat Scan, and immediately took her into surgery. It took them 6 hours to clean her insides up and remove the part of her colon necessary for her to survive. Her husband called me, bawling, this morning, having stayed stoic and strong for her family members all night. They don't know whether she will make it, as of 2 pm today... I am beside myself, depressed, infuriated with the lack of professionalism on the part of the hospital (which have dropped the ball on maybe patients in my town before, had lawsuits, etc.), and am quite anxious, knowing I can do nothing but be there for her husband, one of my dearest friends. This shit takes me back to a time when my sister-in-law, Khaidra (my youngest older brother's first wife) was sick, before she finally succumbed to her own illness at the age of 26. I'm only grateful that I go to the doctor for almost any little thing...I'll never be as surprised to find something wrong with me due to my over-diligence with regard to my health. But I'm still so sad...Michelle's my sister for the last 10 years. Thanks for listening to me rant here. It tends to make me feel better to write this stuff out.
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