When the nurse becomes the patient. . . Those who have been around for a while know all about my health journey. The ups and down. The way downs. . . With pulmonary hypertension chest pain can be super scary and very dangerous! I very quickly can go into respiratory distress. . . I, however, am very stubborn. The last place I ever want to be is a hospital as a patient, and will do everything to prevent myself from going. . . Yesterday was no different. I took my inhaler when I felt the tightness and pain, took naproxen to help with inflammation and pain. And laid down with cool water to sip on hoping it would pass and I could sleep. But no. . . After two hours of pain that was excruciating and unable to move without feeling light headed, I decided I was ready to make the trip to emerge. . . When I got there my initial BP was 170/105, and tachycardic at 140bpm. . . Cue blood work, oxygen, ECG and cardiac monitoring. . . I am ok! They got the pain and BP under control after a few hours. Tests all came back within normal limits and I was able to go home. . . It always gives me such a new view when I am on the other side of the curtain- especially as a deaf person. Masks make communication for me very difficult even with my hearing aids in. And why I napped off medication I would turn them off. Then tech and nurses and docs would come in to check on me and I wouldn’t respond to them (because I can’t hear them). Shift change of course made this more difficult because as soon as one would know and understand you’ll have to tap me to get my attention they would remember each interaction. . . #pulmonaryhypertension #spoonienurse #nurse #nursingstudent #studentnurse #nursetobe #nurseingthemaking #nurblr #nurses #rn #rpn #rntobe #deafnurse #ltcnurse #nightnurse #geriatricsnurse #newbienurse #babynurse #nightshift #nightnurse #lpn #lvn #cna #psw #bscn #bsn #adn #bscntobe #bsntobe #nurselife https://www.instagram.com/p/CAnhhqghsjs/?igshid=isex5bthy696
