Sorry it has taken me a while to reply. My blood count is real low, so I've
been very tired, etc. BUT I have been thinking of you! They say the only
wasy to truly rule out the gallbladder is to take it out. Short of that,
ultrasound will reveal stones, and something called a gallbladder function
study (another nuclear medicine test - and that's not the real name...the
real name is something intelligible like c c k hyda lol) will show problems
related to its function, rather than stones. In my case, I had not stones
but the gallbladder functioned way too slowly.
As far as nurses and gloves, my nurses would often complain when I was
dehydrated that it made it difficult to feel the vein wearing gloves.
However, they all did (one did cut the end of the glove finger off,
though). I would personally insist on gloves since they could have anything
on their hand that you don't want introduced under your skin!
Hope things are going better
take care!
Mykella
Barbara L Dusel wrote:
> Hi Mykella,
>
> Thanks for all that info! Reglan - Yeah, he claims it completely
> paralyzes him and he can't transfer at all for a day or so. So he almost
> never takes it.
>
> About ruling out gallblander - I will mention it, thanks! I don't
> know exactly how you would rule it out but they never did any blood test
> except thyroid and Vitamin B - no CBC or anything. They are only allowed
> to spend 15 minutes with each patient so I don't know if there was even
> time for that.
>
> I did find out - when you go to the VA - you have to say "I want to be
> evaluated in ER in room B127" in order to be seen in ER. They keep
> changing things around over there.
> He "thought" he was going to ER when he went in the first time - in which
> case they might have thought more about gallbladder - but then again,
> maybe there is a way to know.
>
> I will run it past him. He's going over there tomorrow, supposedly,
> for eye exam so he could go to ER if he's not okay. He seemed halfway
> okay last night, though. It's storming right now really bad, here
> (Kentucky),....so if it's like that tomorrow it will be hard to get him
> to go at all. We had numerous wrecks out here today.
>
> Thanks again Mykella, glad you are back.
>
> Barb D. in Louisville
> who takes care of Bill
>
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