somewhat relieved
Morgan and I ended up in the ER last night. I wasn't feeling well at all; I felt like I couldn't catch my breath and my heart was pounding and I just didn't feel "right". Given what the NP had said, we decided to be safe rather than sorry and went to the ER.
They did a bunch of tests, and the upshot is that my heart is absolutely fine, my numbers for various blood tests look good, and they don't know really why I was feeling so short of breath but it doesn't appear to be anything life threatening. Thinking about it this morning when I'm less shaky and cranky from the breathing treatment (hate hate hate albuterol), my guess is that the asthma is not quite as gone as I thought.
This doesn't explain why I've gained weight or why I'm retaining water, but at least it doesn't appear to be anything life-threatening. And the diuretic is helping, definitely; my legs feel less swollen than they have in a while, even after only one day.
I have matching bruises on my left and right arms now from all the bloodwork poking, which is oh so lovely but I was expecting that. I'm just hoping one of them heals before my next tranfusion or it's going to suck.
So that's that, and I'll see what the NP says on Monday about it.
Happy Independence Day to those of you celebrating; happy Friday to those of you who aren't. My feelings on the whole thing are mixed this year due to the absolute awfulness that is SCOTUS and its recent rulings as well as just some depression over the state of politics in this country. On the other hand, sometimes I don't want to live anywhere else, and there are a lot of things I really like about this country. So there we are.
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They did a bunch of tests, and the upshot is that my heart is absolutely fine, my numbers for various blood tests look good, and they don't know really why I was feeling so short of breath but it doesn't appear to be anything life threatening. Thinking about it this morning when I'm less shaky and cranky from the breathing treatment (hate hate hate albuterol), my guess is that the asthma is not quite as gone as I thought.
This doesn't explain why I've gained weight or why I'm retaining water, but at least it doesn't appear to be anything life-threatening. And the diuretic is helping, definitely; my legs feel less swollen than they have in a while, even after only one day.
I have matching bruises on my left and right arms now from all the bloodwork poking, which is oh so lovely but I was expecting that. I'm just hoping one of them heals before my next tranfusion or it's going to suck.
So that's that, and I'll see what the NP says on Monday about it.
Happy Independence Day to those of you celebrating; happy Friday to those of you who aren't. My feelings on the whole thing are mixed this year due to the absolute awfulness that is SCOTUS and its recent rulings as well as just some depression over the state of politics in this country. On the other hand, sometimes I don't want to live anywhere else, and there are a lot of things I really like about this country. So there we are.
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