The Unexpected Road from Bedrest to Emergency Room

I recently experienced another bout of pneumonia that led to an unexpected five-day hospital stay after a mobile urgent care visit went sideways. What should have been a simple antibiotic prescription turned into a medical drama when a nurse suggested I might have a blood clot, leading to miscommunication and an ambulance ride.

• High risk for pneumonia due to cerebral palsy, weakened lungs, and being temporarily bed-bound
• Called mobile urgent care when my doctor was unresponsive and previous endocrinologist was unhelpful
• Mobile nurse from Texas (via video chat) escalated situation by suggesting blood clots
• Miscommunication led to signing medical refusal forms and calling an ambulance
• Spent Tuesday through Saturday in the hospital on antibiotics, thankfully avoiding C. diff complications
• Still recovering and exhausted, with compromised voice
• Exciting secret project reveal coming in next week's episode

Tune in next week when I'll finally share the secret project I've been working on behind the scenes!

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Health Crisis Intro
• 1:17 Mobile Urgent Care Complications
• 5:33 Hospital Stay and Recovery
• 8:06 Upcoming Episodes and Secret Project

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Welcome to A Winning Heart, you guys. Well, here's the story and you won't believe this. Well, it won't shock some of you. For those of you who know me closely know I have a high risk for pneumonia. And for those of you who remember, back after my back surgery, back in April, I got pneumonia. I got pneumonia, well, on Tuesday, because everyone said I had pneumonia and even a friend of mine who's a registered nurse checks me out, said you might have pneumonia. So she calls. She calls my doctor. My doctor didn't call back. She calls my previous, my soon-to-be previous hormonology clinic. They say go to the emergency room or go, come and see us in the office. Yeah right, that's happening. Even on a good day that will happen. My ex hominologist is so ridiculously mean and, yeah right, even on a good day that would happen. And now you gotta remember, I still have a leg impingement. I still have a leg impingement. I still have a leg impingement. I still have a fractured hip.

Speaker 1: 2:10

Well, so then, my medicine nurse, my medical liaison, who you guys will eventually meet after all this monkey business is over with the impeachment, slash the broken hand. She calls our mobile urgent care clinic that night. So this is Monday night, okay. So they call me. I'm waiting for the mobile origins care to come out. They call me and say, oh, we have to reschedule for tomorrow. Fine, what time I get that organized. That the catch was is they gave me a time between 9 am and 1 pm. So I'm thinking, okay, they'll just come out and give me antibiotics for pneumonia, which I was 99% positive that I had to, 100% positive that I had Because, remember, I'm temporarily bed-bound. So when you're not up and moving you have a higher risk of getting pneumonia. And, of course, with my crappy lungs and cerebral palsy spruced, I have a higher risk of getting pneumonia. And it's that my double weakened lungs don't help Asthma doesn't help in the course of getting pneumonia.

Speaker 1: 4:26

So they come out, the mobile urgent care comes out and the nurse out of Texas decides to tell me oh, you have, we can't rule out a blood clot. And this is a mobile nurse out of Texas who has one of her, a mobile nurse out of Texas, who has one of her colleagues standing here in my bedroom and she's telling me all this via video chat. And so I'm thinking I have blood clot and so I'm thinking I have blood clots and so you? So I said to the nurse. I said no, I won't go to the hospital. But what I was trying to say because at this point I feel like crap, and what I was trying to say was no, I won't go to the hospital near my house, not no, I won't go to the hospital. And so then they go into the song and they ask about we're not forcing you to go to the hospital, but we do have to give you a piece of paper saying that you refuse medical care and we have to sign it.

Speaker 1: 6:17

So I'm like great. So we call the ambulance. Of course the ambulance comes. I get my butt to the ambulance, I land up staying in the hospital for Tuesday and Wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, and of course, with antibiotics comes the risk of lovely C diff. So I'm like great. So if that gets kicked off, we're up to the Quaker's Auto Pile. I am up to the Quaker's Auto Pile, so is everyone else that comes in contact with me. Thank God it didn't get kicked off. But what I will say is that I'm not Me and pneumonia are best friends, but we are not best friends. So that is why I'm exhausted, my voice is shot, because even though I don't have pneumonia. Even though I don't have pneumonia at this current moment, I'm still trying to recover from said pneumonia.

Speaker 1: 8:06

So, that being said, I am going to let Danielle lead us out and I will catch you guys next week, and then Neil and I will also catch you guys next week. So that is that. Oh, what the cute bunny said, and she scared me at that. She, I jumped. So thank you for following us. And oh, you know I jumped. So thank you for following us. And oh, you know I jump. So thank you for following us, and we will see you guys next week with another fabulous episode. And we I have to tell you about my secret project that I'm working on that's finally about to come out of the bag as of next week. When you hear next week's episode, you will know my secret projects, so I will get that organized small, and so I will catch you guys next week. We will catch you guys next week and we will see you guys next week. Bye, you guys, bye.