Comments on: valentines_night@intensive_care http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html lieven le bruyn's blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:50:41 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: beans http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-5886 beans Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:25:48 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html#comment-5886 <p>Hi again! Thanks for your tips, and knowing the second one before might have helped. (Not me of course, I don't freak out externally... just internally!)</p> <p>My mum didn't have what you linked. She's got a problem with her blood pressure and blood sugar level. (The plus to this is that the house is always stocked with chocolate now!)</p> Hi again! Thanks for your tips, and knowing the second one before might have helped. (Not me of course, I don’t freak out externally… just internally!)

My mum didn’t have what you linked. She’s got a problem with her blood pressure and blood sugar level. (The plus to this is that the house is always stocked with chocolate now!)

]]> By: lieven http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-5018 lieven Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:06:26 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html#comment-5018 <p>@beans : someone susceptible to syncopes usually has a history of (near) faintings and has a pretty good idea what causes them. basic recommendation is to avoid these triggering events...</p> <p>other tips ive learned in the process are :</p> <ul> <li><p>agree on a signal with ThePartner to warn that it's going downhill (you feel it coming for several seconds, if not minutes) in order to avoid panic around you when it happens. when i collapsed the default assumption was that i was having a heart attack, so on the way to the hospital blood was taken as well as an ECG, i was hooked up to monitors for a whole night and the next morning they insisted on taking a full echo of my heart mesassuring all dimensiona of cavities and arteries and only then they concluded it was 'just' a syncope...</p></li> <li><p>if you have children with ThePartner, agree beforehand on how to communicate with them on such events in order to prevent them from freaking out...</p></li> </ul> @beans : someone susceptible to syncopes usually has a history of (near) faintings and has a pretty good idea what causes them. basic recommendation is to avoid these triggering events…

other tips ive learned in the process are :

  • agree on a signal with ThePartner to warn that it’s going downhill (you feel it coming for several seconds, if not minutes) in order to avoid panic around you when it happens. when i collapsed the default assumption was that i was having a heart attack, so on the way to the hospital blood was taken as well as an ECG, i was hooked up to monitors for a whole night and the next morning they insisted on taking a full echo of my heart mesassuring all dimensiona of cavities and arteries and only then they concluded it was ‘just’ a syncope…

  • if you have children with ThePartner, agree beforehand on how to communicate with them on such events in order to prevent them from freaking out…

]]> By: beans http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-5017 beans Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:30:38 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html#comment-5017 <p>Hi, I'm glad all is well, but if you don't mind me asking, did the doctors recommend anything? (It's just that my mum has been experiencing them symptoms for the past few days...) :o</p> Hi, I’m glad all is well, but if you don’t mind me asking, did the doctors recommend anything? (It’s just that my mum has been experiencing them symptoms for the past few days…) :o

]]> By: Carl Brannen http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-4980 Carl Brannen Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:13:02 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html#comment-4980 <p>I got my ER visity and surgery safely in advance of V's Day this year. And I seem to be doing fine without a gall bladder.</p> I got my ER visity and surgery safely in advance of V’s Day this year. And I seem to be doing fine without a gall bladder.

]]> By: Florin http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-4978 Florin Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:14:21 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html#comment-4978 <p>What a coincidence, shit (of a different nature) happened to me also on Valentine Day this year...Anyway, good to hear you are OK now...</p> What a coincidence, shit (of a different nature) happened to me also on Valentine Day this year…Anyway, good to hear you are OK now…

]]> By: Kea http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-4974 Kea Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:47:39 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/valentines_nightintensive_care.html#comment-4974 <p>Well, I hope all is well, anyway. I'm sure it was more interesting than my Valentine's day.</p> Well, I hope all is well, anyway. I’m sure it was more interesting than my Valentine’s day.

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