Julie,
It is good you have your hubby and dog too for that matter to take care of
you. I have been taken to a hospital 3 times I guess when I was away from
home.My sister is usually with me then. My boyfriend is with me when I am at
home. He has been through all the ups and downs with the seizures over the
past 20 some years. I never would have made it without him. He is
overprotective sometimes, but I know he is just trying to watch out for me.
If he wasn't allergic to dogs I might have considered having a dog.Oh well
in ways he is a guard dog I suppose. LOL.I would say that your dog takes
very good care of you when you have had seizures in the past and even now
when necessary. I know they are smart. You are lucky to have nurses living
around you and a husband that loves you the way he loves and takes care of
you.Take care.
Tammy
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Julie Hope <epilepsyhealth@
>
>
> Hi Tammy
> Only time I end up in hospital is if something the hospital in small town
> here can't do, then have to go to
> city and like you is a couple hours away. If have to go here usually my
> hubby just takes me or lucky to have
> a nurse living on both sides of me that understand. Yes for sure by the
> time you would get there more than
> likely all signs of a seizure would be over and nothing to do but maybe
> take a test or send you back home.
> Had to once go to city as was in hospital here and they were at their wits
> ends and not knowing what else to
> do even though they were communicating with my neurologist by phone. That
> time was having one seizure right
> after another and nothing would stop them. That was many moons ago.
> If you don't have to go don't go. Know at one point every time I went for
> check up it would be 'stay' time and
> that would end up being a month or so as my neurologist then was giving me
> all kinds of meds and not taking me
> off others slowly etc so can imagine the mess I was in.
> If no great damage done what my hubby does is when comes home for lunch and
> sees I had one, covers me up, and
> puts the phone by me and has his cell with him and calls quite often. If
> any problems my dog would knock the
> receiver off and whine and bark into it which gave Glen the clue something
> wasn't quite right so he would slip
> home. My dog would just sit beside me with a paw over me and not letting me
> up until he came home for supper.
> They sure are smart and don't even have to be trained, am sure they can
> understand English (smile)
> Julie
>
> Julie Hope
> epilepsyhealth@
> http://www.2betrhea
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "uniquepnk tds.net" <Uniquepnk@tds.
> To: <epilepsy@yahoogroup
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Re: New to this still ? when do you go to the
> hopistal?
>
> Julie,
>
> I was out of town where that happened. My sister and I went shopping, which
> we went and stayed all night the night before and was getting ready to come
> home that evening. It took 3 hours to get out of that hospital.The seizure
> I
> was out of before I got to the hospital.Where I do live there is a hospital
> about 30 minutes away, but they can't do much of anything for you.When you
> need specialists or something to have to go away from where I live. My
> neurologist is 3 hours from where I live.You are lucky to have a hospital
> that close. I hate to say it, but if anybody was dying around here, you
> would be dead before the ambulance got here.It is just in the middle of
> nowhere, but it does have it advantages, most of the time is peaceful and
> nobody to bother you. Since most of my seizures just last a couple of
> minutes, I can usually avoid the hospitals.Thank goodness for that. Take
> care.
>
> Tammy
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Julie Hope <epilepsyhealth@
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Tammy...ouch that is a bill and a half no guff. I know it is wise and
> that
> > is why we got extra insurance on
> > the side and made sure it covered ambulance. We are only half block from
> > the hospital here and if had to go it
> > would cost almost as much as straight across town.
> > Julie
> > Julie Hope
> > epilepsyhealth@
> 40sasktel.net>
> > http://www.2betrhea
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "uniquepnk tds.net" <Uniquepnk@tds.
> 40tds.net>>
> > To: <epilepsy@yahoogroup
> 40yahoogroups.
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Re: New to this still ? when do you go to the
> > hopistal?
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > I have been taken a few times, but never like that. That is awful. There
> > was
> > one time I was taken and I liked to never get the ambulance bill paid
> for.
> > The ambulance place sent me a bill for over $600 and I kept telling them
> I
> > had a medical card to get it paid for. It took about six months to get it
> > straightened out.The hospital was just 2 blocks up the street from where
> I
> > was at. I don't see why in the world they won't leave you alone if you
> are
> > able to tell them that you don't want to go to the hospital. It is just a
> > bunch of aggravation. Having an IV put in you and taking blood from you.
> My
> > neurologist can do that same stuff when it is necessary. I hate
> hospitals.
> > I
> > go only when I have to. Other than that I rarely go around one.Anymore
> you
> > have to pay $50 copay everytime you go in the hospital and I am not
> giving
> > them $50 for something I didn't want done to me. I tell my friends to
> tell
> > them to leave me alone or they won't get paid.I haven't been taken since
> > that copay was put on it, which I am glad it hasn't hasn't happened any
> the
> > past few years. I don't go out much, but when I do there is always
> somebody
> > with me, who knows how the seizures are and what I do. I just don't see
> any
> > sense going somewhere when there is nothing they can do about it anyway.
> > Just have to come out of it at your own time and be done with it. I sure
> > don't see how they could treat you that way and act like nothing was
> their
> > fault, that is crazy. I know that had to be a terrible experience for
> you.
> > So sorry you had to go through that. Take care.
> >
> > Tammy
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:50 PM, TIMOTHY BALDWIN <tbb1@prodigy.
> <tbb1%40prodigy.
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tammy,
> > > I've found myself in an ambulance and on my way to a hospital as soon
> as
> > I
> > > become conscious because as soon as the paramedics arrived at a store
> due
> > > them having called they've removed without looking for any signs of ID,
> > > MedicAlerts, injuries etc. then I'll always receive three unnecessary
> > bills,
> > > one from each: Hospital, physicians, fire department, For ambulance
> > service
> > > (which is free and isn't sent until they've taken you to a hosp., its
> > free
> > > for them to just come and leave). I live alone I'm lucky that nobody
> can
> > > call for one. A few times I had a seizure while standing at a bus stop
> > and
> > > someone in a car just called for an ambulance via their cell phone as
> > they
> > > passed by. One time, the worse was in Baltimore city. I had a
> > > complex-partial seizure, a paramedic who had been talking to plain
> > clothed
> > > police officers a block away until I began to stand up at that time he
> > came
> > > up to me and ordered me, "you had a seizure get in the ambulance". I
> said
> > > No, I'd like having a police officer give me a order like that. Can You
> > > give me your ID, I would like to have an officer to speak to. He spoke
> on
> > > his radio, he said, "I need Police assistance at..." .. the
> intersection
> > of
> > > the streets we were at. He didn't say he needed patient assistance, at
> > all.
> > > A female officer was the first to arrive and I waited as she walked
> very
> > > slowly across a median strip and toward me. She was looking over my
> > shoulder
> > > at male officers who were sneaking up behide me. She kept my attention
> > > forward toward her, not in any way behind me. A male officer grabbed me
> > from
> > > the back under my armpits and lifted me a small bit and threw me
> forward
> > and
> > > down, the paramedic watched as I became bloody and was put into his
> ambo.
> > > with chin laceration, fractured r. jaw joint, many teeth either crushed
> > or
> > > split, fine fragments of that fracture punctured my r. ear canal and
> > caused
> > > blood to come out of my right ear along with the chin. Of course they
> > just
> > > said to the hospital that I was injured during a seizure.
> > > Tim B.
> >
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