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Bypass Surgery, chronic illnesses, Chronic Pain, Fibro, Fibromyalgia, Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins, PTSD
My Mom was watching a crime show and the woman that was in the episode, not sure of the name of the television show but she had Fibromyalgia and that is what I have. I actually have severe FIbro.
When I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia I was very emotionally upset, I could not accept my diagnosis, I went to several physicians and NPs looking for a different answer, something or someone who said no you will be okay and not have a life-long condition that causes all over body pain.
Back to the crime show, she was on a protocol for her Fibro, its called Guaifensesin Protocol for Fibro or Mucinex. You apparently take the Mucinex at a much higher dose until you start to feel worse, the worse y ou feel means apparently you are at the right dosage, there are other parts to the protocol, I do not remember them, and no I am not a physician nor am I recommending this, always check with a physician first…. I am just interested in possibly doing it, I am willing to try almost anything to combat my symptoms with this disease/condirion.
So, today I am watching the premieres of 9–1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star with my Dad. I really enjoy these television shows. And I like spending time with my Dad. In very early October of last year, my Dad was having chest pains and pain down his one arm. I drove him to our local county hospital. They did an angiogram and were going to send him home and then quickly decided after the procedure that he needed to be transferred to another hospital for a bypass surgery, he ended up having a 5-bypass surgery or quntable bypasss surgery. A few days later he had a terrible post-operative infection that almost liquified his chest bone. So, the cardiovascular surgeon had to use special wires to sew his breast bone back together. My Father spent a total of eight weeks in the hospital.
The event that really affected my PTSD the most with my Dad’s health was about a week after he got home from Hopkins. He one day was carrying something up the stairs to our top level of our home and he had some kind of episode and collapsed and passed out and fell down the whole flight of the stairs. He collapsed at the bottom and was not breathing, and his eyes were at first at the back of his head and then he eyes were shut and he was non-responsive for several minutes.
It was the scariest moment of my life. I thought I had lost my Father.
He spent a week at Shock Trauma.
Every time I hear my Dad cough too hard, or moan and yell out in pain I feel that horrible feeling again.