Things you wish you could say

[KayisforKale]

Yep.

Beautiful girls, though. I love their floppy combs!

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Thanks. My dad was admitted into the hospital this morning found out not long ago due to heart failure

Just a couple decades ago "Congestive Heart Failure" (CHF) was a fatal diagnosis. Now the outlook is much better.
When the heart begins to loose it's efficiency as a pump it cannot move the fluid around as well and it builds up in the body. You may see it first as weight gain, swelling in the feet and calves and the lungs (short of breath).
They will probably give him a diuretic (Lasix). There are are a number of treatments that are used now ranging from Digitalis (Foxglove) to pacemakers.
They will be using a measurement called Ejection Fraction which refers to the efficiency of the heart (as a pump). The actual number is most useful to show how much it has changed. 50-70% is "normal". (Even a mechanical pump is <100% perfect.)
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16950-ejection-fraction

 

[LaFleche]

she seems to have sprung a Brown Leghorn feather (

Not sure why she'd get the idea of sprouting that feather but she did.

They both proudly sprouted a "Statement Feather"!
Beautiful girls!

 

[sourland]

thanks for leaving off the first 2 letters there, I appreciate it

My mind immediately added them, but that's no real surprise.

I have wanted to say this multiple times the last couple of days


Being rude isn’t going to get you the answer you want it’s just going to make people not want to help you.

Your ethnicity is no excuse for rudeness. Oh yeah, I did say that.

 

[Nabiki]

I’m not 100% sure all I know is he’s gonna be there till at least Monday

I wish there was something I could do.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I’m not 100% sure all I know is he’s gonna be there till at least Monday

praying for a speedy recovery.

 

[Sally PB]

Just a couple decades ago "Congestive Heart Failure" (CHF) was a fatal diagnosis. Now the outlook is much better.

This is what my neighbor has. She is feeling "pretty good right now," by her own words.

I wish I could say she got stellar treatment. I wish I could say that I'm proud of the way her doctors cared for her. I wish her own cardiologist did not tell her, "You fell through the cracks. We should have done better."

I wish I could say, "When she went to the ER at 11:30 at night with shortness of breath, nausea (she never has that, ever, not even when she was pregnant) and sever chest pain, the person who checks people in did NOT put a wrist band on her and tell her, 'Go sit over there.'"

Yeah, I'm a bit pissed, still, about this.

 

[Brooks_]

I wish I could say, "When she went to the ER at 11:30 at night with shortness of breath, nausea (she never has that, ever, not even when she was pregnant) and sever chest pain, the person who checks people in did NOT put a wrist band on her and tell her, 'Go sit over there.'"

That's messed up. I thought chest pain was the golden ticket to get seen right away.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

This is what my neighbor has. She is feeling "pretty good right now," by her own words.

I wish I could say she got stellar treatment. I wish I could say that I'm proud of the way her doctors cared for her. I wish her own cardiologist did not tell her, "You fell through the cracks. We should have done better."

I am SO sorry. I want to work for a few more years but sometimes I get disgusted with where medicine is heading.
CHF is so common a good nurse could have told the doctor what to order. Get an EKG, draw blood test (CBC, BMP & BNP) & start Lasix.

 

[Sally PB]

I thought chest pain was the golden ticket to get seen right away.

Apparently not at that hospital.