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First peripheral neuropathy … and now a sepsis infection? $%*&#@
Neuropathy | Last Active: May 25 7:49pm | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
Hi, Barb! (@bjk3)
It’s neat to be in touch again. I’m the true absentee. Sepsis benched me. I find it hard to believe that it was 52 days ago today when I was taken by ambulance to the hospital. I had been a real know-nothing when it comes to sepsis; I thought I’d be back home and posting on Connect in, oh, three or four days at most. Fool that I was!
“But what is NEEDED [is] … not allow myself to be deprived of hydration and good sleep.”
Amen to that, Barb! In fact, that’s worth saying three times over: Amen! Amen! Amen! And right alongside hydration, you can put PROTEIN. What I heard over and over, both in the hospital and in rehab, was my broad-spectrum IV antibiotics would take care of battling the sepsis; my principal job in healing was twofold: (1) get myself rehydrated and (2) load up on protein. I did both with a passion; in fact, I’m sipping some sort of delicious rehydration concoction of my partner’s devising as I type this.
“Isn't it amazing how much time is required just to take care of our own physical needs in this season of life?”
So true! I smile to think that I’m actually looking forward to this sepsis business being over and done with so that I’m able to devote a little spare time to dwelling on my idiopathic PN. 🙂
Keep in touch, Barb! And stay well.
Cheers!
Ray (@666)
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Thank you, Ray, for your kind words -- you made my day!
Yep, that protein reminder is just what I needed. That's the topic that came up every time I saw the dietician while I was in rehab two years ago. I'm not a vegetarian but almost. It drove her, who felt responsible for my institutional but temporary nutrition, crazy. 🙄
About that ambulance ride - if it isn't too personal a question, was that because you didn't have strength to walk to the car? In other words, had you already been diagnosed and recognized that you had sepsis?
And on another topic, I also am wondering if you or anyone out there knows why it is not a priority to put those ambulances on a chasis with decent shock absorbers??? Peace, Barb