My PICC Line

My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry

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Entries Tagged ‘emergency room’

Submit Your Story: Diagnosis…please?

The following story was submitted by a reader: In June, I was rushed to the emergency room with bilateral abdominal pain. I spent twenty-two hours in the ER and there was told I had a malignant mass, gastroenteritis, Crohn’s disease, an ovarian torsion, or most unlikely, appendicitis. Following two inconclusive CAT scans and a sonogram, [...]

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Five lifestyle changes since Aplastic Anemia

It’s been 47 days since I went to the emergency room, 44 days since I was diagnosed with aplastic anemia. There have been adjustments, giving up old habits and taking up new ones. Here’s five lifestyle adjustments underwent over the past month and few weeks. 1. The low microbial diet. The diet is the opposite [...]

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The Emergency Room, transfusions and blood donors

I dont know if it was the severity of my condition, or the fact that my mother is good friends with a big cheese at the hospital, but I didn’t sit in the little waiting room out side the ER for more than 10 minutes. I was on a stretcher, IV’s were inserted at my wrist [...]

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