Peri is ill

Silverfox · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: Peri is ill

I just got a text from Peri:

"Hi! I'm in hospital. Drove here just over 2 hours ago after 7 hrs of stomach cramps. Was sick at 5.40 ayem. Heart mumur also found (unrelated). Shoud be home in next 2 hrs."

I've sent him our love and wishing him well, and asking him to keep me posted.
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notatallsure · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 202 Location: A place near you

Hope he's OK!

maria143 · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 476 Location: Florida

Oh...I hope you feel better soon, Silver....
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Silverfox · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject:

I had another text from him saying that he is home and well. Sent back with antacids and anti-nausea meds.

He's also posted on my site that he is fine and taking it easy - having soup for dinner.
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Xcotty · Admin Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 1377 Location: Highlands

Take care Mr P, and stop eating crap pal.

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Mad Welshie · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:53 am Post subject:

Hope you will be feeling better soon Peri. Take care!!!

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WACOlives · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 900 Location: east sussex

Get back on yer porridge and oatcakes Winkle . . .You know it makes sense !!

Chin up loon.

Wee John · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject:

All the best tih yi Peri, tak care o' yirsel noo.

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no the full shillin · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject:

THIS IS FROM PERI.

Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:30 pm

I was alright yesterday. I did have some acid reflux bits in the evening, so I took some anti-acid tabs. One each at two different times....at least one too many.

I went to bed just after 12.30 ayem. Had a weird dream and woke up around 1.30. It was then I felt a tightness in my stomach area (just below the breast bone) that I was afraid was the start of one of these stomach cramp attacks I've occasionally had since early 2007. These are excruciatingly painful. Sometimes I can hardly breathe, much less think straight, and my voice goes all weird. I will seek to learn if these attacks are a part of the achalasia I occasionally suffer.

Achalasia is a disorder in which the mechanism that lets food enter the stomach from the esophagus malfunctions. The valve that is supposed to open to let food or drink into the stomach spasms, and fails to open....the esophagus still tries to force the food or drink into the stomach, in vain, and to say the least, this all hurts like a bitch! I have had the worst of it trigger brief nausea more than once. In some people (not me, thankfully), achalasia even affects their ability to swallow. A flip side to achalasia is when that esophageal trap door doesn't stay shut when it should, with the result that stomach acid flows upward into the esophagus and occasionally points north: you know this as 'acid reflux'.

I had the beginning of one of these cramp attacks about a week and a half ago, but it was a very mild one. I drank a little water when it started, and it seemed to alleviate things. It went away within an hour or two. Remembering that experience, I got a wee glass of water, and had a small drink of it.

No such luck. The way I felt, everything would go into my stomach fine, but it was as if things would not progress further, though my stomach was desperately trying to move things along. The water only made the pressure more intense and painful. This went on for several hours....know that sleep was well out of the question.

About 5.40 ayem I was seized with nausea. Not something I enjoy, mind, but I thought, well, if I can get everything out of my stomach, perhaps the pain will cease and I'll finally get a bit of sleep. So I hoped I got enough out to shift things, but not so much that I'd have 'dry heaves'. I was concerned about dehydration. Actually, even after all that activity, the pain hadn't lessened a great deal, though I could tell I was 'emptier'.

I again tried to take a small amount of water, partly to wash out some of the acid taste in my mouth, partly to lessen any potential of dehydration. My worries increased when I felt the stomach pain return somewhat. I feared that water wasn't going to go anywhere, and the possible consequences for my kidneys etc.

The pain seemed to have no let up in view, hour after hour. By 8 ayem I was well scared and well fed up with it. I'd never had an attack last anywhere near this long, and decided perhaps I needed some professional attention. (I have no insurance, and you know the rest!) So I finally got some decent clothes on (and a warm long-sleeve shirt, remembering how chilled I was two years earlier in one of their emergency rooms following The Wreck) and drove myself to the emergency room.

Of course, I had to take that shirt back off, for them to attach all the EKG sensors and connecting leads to their machines, and for the IV stuck into my right arm. They did give me some warm blankets though, so it wasn't all that bad.

Got the typical battery of tests....blood pressure something like 142/76, still quite good. X rays and everything else, OK. (Of course the stomach spasm had well passed by the time they were taken.) It was when one doctor listened to my heart that he detected the murmur. 'Lub-whooshhht, lub-whooshhht, lub-whooshhht....' He let me hear it through his stethoscope.

Anyway, after all was determined to be reasonably OK, I was eventually allowed to go home by 12.30 peeyem.

I'll put more info here as I learn what's what....I feel just fine now, like nothing had ever happened.
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Sidsnotwasere · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 705

Glad yer on the mend old fella.

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notatallsure · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 202 Location: A place near you

LAy off the Spag Bol!!

no the full shillin · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject:

UPDATE ON PERI !!!

Sat Sep 26, 2009

A buddy of a friend is a retired doctor, and he found out about my situation and wanted to meet with me today. He listened a bit more to my chest than the doctors yesterday did. This chap detected not only a murmur (which is mild) but he explained an arrhythmia he'd also noticed.

I told him about all I'd gone through, particularly the last 6 years. That really blew his mind. He said I need to 'chill the f*** out'--that I'm WAY too stressed and worried about things, and that it will kill me if I don't get things sorted, and myself 'un-stressed'....I think it's just holdover from when Mum died up through moving into here that was the catalyst.

The chap today even said not to worry about the big surgery....my life's more important than money! They'd make more money off the tax writeoffs than they would if I did pay the bills....
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BoB · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks for keeping us posted on Peri

Wee John · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:04 am Post subject:

Weel that is guid news fae that Dr.
Thanks for keepin us updated.

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Perisphere · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:43 am Post subject:

Wee updates....nae much to tell, but I have some phone numbers for cardiologists down in east Texas to contact, to get that ball rolling.

On a bit of a blast from the past, yesterday I got a phone call from the friend I used to record a weekly gospel music radio programme for, to see how I'm doing now and all. I filled him in on what I know, and about working toward getting checked out in Texas.

He asked me if I've still got 'the machine you cut songs out of the radio shows with'....I do....he's almost got selections picked out for three CDs' worth of songs from the radio programmes they've recorded since he stopped recording them with me last November. He's thinking about 20 songs per CD. (I rang him today to see if he could bring them over today. He didn't have time....might bring them early tomorrow.) That'll be three albums to edit and assemble and master.

He told me of an interesting conversation he recently had with the folks I rented from before, who allowed the 'Clampett' tossers to move into where I lived and all. They're with a church lot who are attempting to rent a large tin building from one of my friend's brothers to move their church into.

Mr Landlord asked my friend if he heard from me, and how I'm doing and all that; he told him I'm fine, doing well. (I don't know if this was before or after my health scare.) Then Mr L said to him something like 'I guess we're settled even on the back rent then, aren't we?'!

His measured response was 'Yes....I....guess....we....are!'

eloise · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 3491

Take care of yourself Mr P we all love you xxx
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