[Magdalen] What a Revltin Development

[Jay Weigel]

Lovenox is a whole lot better than Coumadin, if you don't mind injections.
Hopefully insurance will pay for it (it's expensive, so sometimes they
balk)! The half-life is shorter, for one thing. Can't believe you've been
walking around with pulmonary emboli and not been noticeably short of
breath or having pain. (Maybe that's why you've been crankier than usual?)
If you're nice to the nurses, they might share their coffee with you
instead of making you drink the dietary service stuff, but not if you're a
grouch. Everywhere I've worked, we always kept our own stash of decent
stuff.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> As Chester A Riley would say.
>
> I went to the local hospital yesterday for a CT Scan for my doctor at
> MSKinNY,
> with the idea they'd mail the Cd and that would be that.
>
> But the Radiologist here looked at it and noted multiple Pulmonary
> Embolisms in
> my lungs. He called my doctor in NY and my doctor in NY called me and told
> me to
> report back to the emergency room.
>
> And so I was admitted last night to Scranton Regional Hospital, and am
> sitting
> here with a Heparin IV drip and discussion of Luvenox? vs Coumadin or
> Warfarin.
> I f the Luvenox is okay with my Dr in NY, I can go home tomorrow;
> otherwise I
> could be five days.
>
> I suppose we'll do to Luvenox if it's okay with MSK. Albert is already
> adept at
> removing the chemo bottle from the Mediport on Sunday mornings after Friday
> treatments, so one more addition to his medical repertoire shouldn’t be a
> big
> deal.
>
> They've been very thorough here, I believe -- with a cardiologist checking
> my
> heart (looks good) and a Lung specialist filling me in on details of
> different
> therapies. Of course, it's a hospital so  the coffee is terrible (Albert
> just
> went to get me decent coffee after bringing me the laptop); because of the
> ct
> Scan I hadn’t eaten anything yesterday and ended up with a turkey sandwich
> in
> the ER.
>
> My Dr in NY was very concerned that I had walked to and from the hospital,
> but
> then we walk everywhere, and I try to walk a mile or two a day. Last week
> we did
> nearly five miles to and through Nay Aug Park here in Scranton. What was
> considered good is now considered not so good, but perhaps that I had no
> symptoms relating to the lung problems might be because I am is reasonable
> shape
> with the walking.
>
> In any case, please remember me in your prayers.
>