SonyaR's Journal

After such a good week last week this week has been so disheartening!  I ended up leaving work by ambulance on Wednesday.  I was feeling a tightness in my chest and was having difficulty taking a deep breath with out pain so my employer insisted on calling the squad instead of someone just taking me the 1 mile trip to the hospital!  How embarassing!!!!  so of course I was put through the whole heart attack scenario including nitro spray, baby aspirin and ekg's.  Then they were worried about possible blood clot on my lungs from the trip last week.  So they did a CT scan.  Of course I am allergic to the iodine so they had to give me hefty drugs to counter act that.  Then they gave me injections in my stomach of blood thinners.  I kept repeating to everyone that I had SjS hoping they would settle down and listen to me describe the pain.  After 5 hours they admited me so they could observe and do a series of blood tests to rule out for sure that I hadn't had a heart attack.  The attending Doc in the hospital finally came in and listened and felt that more than likely it was pleurisy!  But he still kept me and finished with the blood tests.  They came back negative and they released me the next morning with no restrictions, no precription or instructions on what I should do to get rid of this or how to take care of it.  My Rheumy is out on thursdays so I had to leave a message.  I called back this morning and she had ordered all my information to be faxed but by the time she left the office this evening it still hadn't shown up.  Just glad I have good insurance!  Thanks for listening sorry to rant! :-)