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Medical Records

February 11, 2009 | By Heidi | Filed Under: health, husband | Leave a Comment

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So my husband switched his doctors from one hospital system to another. He was originally in the “new” hospital system when he got diagnosed, but we found that the doctors at the other hospital were more knowledgeable about the disease. He’s been going to those doctors for about 3 years, maybe a bit longer and really, there’s little else they can do for him…or I should say, no other doctor would do anything differently at this point…anyways, from what I know about the disease I believe this to be true.

So, driving to downtown Detroit for all of his doctor appointments has become an issue for him…as well as the availability of his PCP…the staff in his PCP’s office are rude, for the most part anyways…parking costs money…there are a lot of factors. So we decided to switch him back to the closer hospital.

He called multiple offices and talked to their nurses and some doctors to find one who knows about APS. He finally found one…made an appointment…and went to see him. He seems like a nice guy and also his father and brother are both hematologists, so he’ll also be seeing one of those two…and, he DOES know about APS! Which is good.

Only issue…he needs Todd’s medical records in order to fill his prescriptions, get him referrals to the specialists, etc.

You would think that these medical records contained the secrets of our country or the mysteries of life! OMG…smile_omg

He was on the phone half the day dealing with this, and I made a few phone calls from work and we also enlisted the help of a friend to make a few phone calls and receive a fax for us. Thank God we have her to help us! heart

I think we have it all straightened out for the most part, but I’ve never gotten the run around like this…my goodness. Crazy!

Problem is, Todd’s running out of Lovenox shots…his own fault, but we need to get these records to his doctor so we can get the ball rolling and get him his meds before he has a stroke or some other kind of clotting event! fingerscrossed

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New Doctor For the Hubbs!

January 26, 2009 | By Heidi | Filed Under: health, husband, life | Leave a Comment

My husband has an autoimmune disease called Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome and we’ve been having issues with his PCP lately. She isn’t as available as we need her to be and she’s really wishy washy, plus the staff are rude and it’s hard to get a referral…and the office is in downtown Detroit.

Since the break in of my husband’s truck, he’s basically been afraid to drive and park downtown…not all of Detroit is bad, but it has a bad rep. Anyway, I didn’t know this really, until recently…so we decided to move his doctors all back to the more local (to us anyway) hospital.

He was originally at this hospital, but there were better specialists at the hospital downtown, so we switched him…well honestly, there’s not much more they can do for him at this point but treat symptoms as they come up, so we’re switching him back to the local hospital.

His appt with the new PCP is tomorrow. He needs either a new script for his Lovenox shots, or to be put back on Coumadin. One or the other.

I wish i could go with him, but he needs to do these things alone. Hopefully it goes well and we don’t have too many issues. We’re pretty educated on the disease and treatments and that’s not always the best thing.

I will update on how the appt went!

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Wheel of Fortune + Dr Appt + Alex's Vet Appt

November 17, 2008 | By Heidi | Filed Under: health, zoo | 1 Comment

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Tomorrow I have a doctor’s appointment after work. Anyone know how to lose like 50lbs overnight? LOL I just don’t feel like hearing how I’m heavier now than I was at my last appointment. Yes, i know. I just want the refill for my meds so I don’t feel crazy going off them and then I want to go about my merry way. Thankyouverymuch. heh

We’ll see what happens tomorrow. *sigh*

Either way, the hubbs and I will be going grocery shopping on Thursday and we *will* be getting healthier foods!! I mean it…seriously! No more fast food, no more junk food… I need to give up the pop too…baby steps though. LOL babysteps.

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Now on to my baby Fanna…or Alex, which is his “given” name. He’s had diarrhea basically since we’ve adopted him. He’s also had an eye that is periodically runny and shook his head whenever his ears were touched. We finally decided to take him to the vet for all of these things. We did so last week or the week before.

They gave us a liquid med for the diarrhea, and ear ointment and an eye ointment. We took him in on a Saturday…oh, and he got a full blood panel done and we brought in a stool sample too. he also got some shots and other tests.

On Saturday night he was kind of sleepy…I figured it was from the shots he got…no biggie. Well, he wasn’t moving on Sunday morning. My husband took him to the table to eat breakfast and he didn’t eat a bite…in fact he didn’t move from the same spot and he kind of cried when my husband picked him up. We called the vet knowing that cats go downhill fast when they stop eating and got an appointment for later in the afternoon.

We took him back in and he had an allergic reaction to the leukemia shot I think it was…so they gave him a shot of something else and some fluids and sent us home with some predinosone. (sp) We noticed a difference by dinnertime! He actually ate his dinner…even though the vet said not to worry about it since he had the fluids…and he’s been good ever since. Poor little guy! But he’s on the mend.

Well I gotta get going. It’s late, the dogs need meds and I need to get to bed!

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