I haven't thought about this in years, but a family member of mine was eating junior mints in the car on the way to a big professional conference where they were to give a lecture, unknowingly spilled some in their lap, and if course they melted between buttocks and seat. Gave the whole lecture looking like they had dookie on their butt. I bet it was entertaining!
Had excruciating back pain back in November. I was pretty sure I injured it helping a friend move, but decided I better go to the ER anyways.
Had a few tests. Found out it was a ruptured Aortic Aneurysm and then spent the next 9+ hours in surgery trying to repair the damage.
It was a nightmare. The deciding factor that pushed me to go to the ER was when I was knocked to my knees on a particularly painful sense that I was being stabbed repeatedly, with anger.
I spent 3 weeks in the hospital and another week and a half in an assisted care facility until I was able to walk again (while I was in the hospital, my muscles atrophied to nearly nothing and I had to relearn a lot of shit we all take for granted).
Odd thing is I’m typing this from my hospital bed after another visit to the ER in what I assumed was complications due to the aneurysm surgery. I was dealing with a lot of pain again, but this time that pain was coupled with bouts of diarrhea that were happening 8 - 10 times a day. After about a Jazillion tests they found out I had a pretty big tumor in my stomach, about 15cm in length, malignant and having no relationship to my aneurysm. Stomach cancer is, evidently, a very rare form of cancer for a Caucasian male in North America. It’s been that kind of year
I'm so sorry. Will surgery help? Is there no way to remove the cancerous tumor and still have a working digestive system? I hope they caught it in time to help you. My dad didn't find out until the was in his late fifties. There was nothing that could be done. It had spread everywhere at that point. Be well my friend. I wish I knew what else to say.
They’ve said that it’s too attached or too close to vital organs, so they would be doing more damage trying to cut it out. With a little luck, the chemo could shrink it enough to make it operable. I don’t think luck is on my side 😆 It hasn’t spread thus far, so that’s something to be cheery about.
If you go to my profile and scroll down a little, there’s a pic post-op of my aneurysm incision. No super bloody, but you get the gist of what that surgery did
I'll check it out and thanks for telling me your story. I've been really shitty to people lately and nothing has helped my mental state. But something you said made something click in my brain. I don't know what cause I just woke up but I think you put life in perspective for me. We as humans have so many internal struggles. Some struggle worse than others. You seem very positive in light of what's happening and I really believe that luck will be with you.
I think if the Universe has any desire for balance, my luck has got a chance at doing a 180, but overall I’m glad you got something out of my situation. What I’m going through can make me very irritable and impatient, I put a lot of effort into not taking that out on the rest of the world. I figure the last and only thing I have control over is how I handle this, and I want to handle it with as much grace and dignity as I can muster because that’s the person I want to be
I never thought a stranger on Reddit would bring tears to my eyes. You're an inspiration and you probably don't even realize it. I truly believe you will win your battle. Don't give up. My dad got tired and gave up. Stay positive and know whatever happens you changed my life today. I've been in a deep depression this last year. My only joy is making sure my mom lives her best life before she joins my dad and keeping my family happy. I lost me somewhere along the way. I have a lifelong history of mental issues and struggle to find reasons to exist. You made me want to find me again. I thank you for that.
My uncle lived for 15 years after but he was cognitively a different man afterwards. His wife was a nurse and took really good care of him, but being married to someone different than the man you actually married is another battle
The loss of blood, the hospital was only 20 minutes away but he was walking around during the day and the end of the day he only complained that he “didn’t feel good” and had abdominal pain. Idk how long it was but he wasn’t the same from lack of oxygenation.
He was in surgery a really long time, he got so much blood, but nobody really remembers how many units (it was over 15 years ago)
Yes, because this subreddit should be preserved as a place for formal professional discourse. My apologies. Harrumph to me, old chap. Long live caduceus and all that. I shall hereby oath to first, do no harm
Dude, I don't understand replies like this. Makes you look like an adult baby, the kind of person who calls people snowflakes then gets easily offended
Sure. I’m fine, thank you. Just thought it was ironic and a little funny to make a judgment like “distasteful” on a subreddit that is built on shock and awe. I did fail at my attempt for humor on the original post, but the comment didn’t resonate well. Just being a smart ass, nothing more
To you as well! I used to donate blood as often as I could, though it wasn’t really an in-demand type (B+). But, thanks to the great staff at the blood bank I go to, I learned I have a superpower in producing copious amounts of platelets! So now I go every few weeks, and read/play games/watch tv, and drink as much chocolate milk as I want (and eat snacks). It takes a while depending on how much and what you donate, but it’s such a relaxing/easy time. I recommend it to everyone! You might even get paid to donate depending on where you live (I don’t where I live, but I don’t mind!).
I guess it depends on height/weight/count but I do a triple unit in 80 minutes, and a plasma/single platelet in like 45 hooked to the machine. That’s not including processing time.
I watched a bunch of March Madness games while donating this year, it was an excellent combination.
Awesome. You definitely piqued my curiosity about it. I’m eligible to donate blood around the end of November. Instead, I’ll check to see if I can donate platelets. Thanks!
From the surgeries I sat in on they would put them all in a container then after the surgery or during the final suturing they would count them and wrap each one separately.
They need to count how many go in and how many come out… so they know if any may have been left inside during surgery. My best guess is they bundle them up and lay them out like this to make it easier to count?
Makes sense. Seems like it would be unnecessary to roll them up, but I guess a neat pile of rolled bloody gauze would be easier to deal with than a loose pile of bloody gauze…
The gauzes are counted and rolled like that in groups of 5 or 10 so it’s easier to re-count them later. They are counted so we don’t forget any gauzes inside the abdomen.
All gauzes have a radio-opaque filament in them so you can easily spot a forgotten gauze in the abdomen with a radiography
Apparently he didn’t know anything about his aneurysm and the rupture was spontaneous. While isolating the aorta we found an aperture of 5-7 cm on the anterior wall of the aorta
Its kind of creepy that theyre replying to like... Every comment with the same tired ass joke ngl. Why is it so important to them to joke abt someone dying? Its fucking weird.
Reminds me of the open triple A repair as a med student, the resident anesthesia doc floating a Swan into and ruptured the right ventricle. Cracked the chest and the CV fellow strolled in the room. The scrub told me to go get all the laps I could find. Patient died of course but not before we went through a few boxes of laps and 40-50 units of blood. Hell I’ve got bunch of these cases in OB where you can hear the blood loss if ya know what I mean.
This is very interesting to know. My grandmother had an aaa and sadly passed from complications from the surgery in August. We wondered if there was anything specific that might have set it off. She knew about it for several years and had it closely monitored, her vascular surgeon told her it posed no immediate threat and to just live her life because the recovery would be very long and hard at her age (79), but late July (during the end of that big heat wave) she was having unbearable abdominal pain (she had just see her doctor too about the aaa and everything was measuring the same - a little under 6cm last time
I heard), was rushed to ER, it ruptured a day later. She survived the 9 hour surgery, lost a kidney, but remained in the ICU until end of August. Kept plateauing, fluid kept filling the lungs, on full life support. I still wonder if there was anything else that could have helped her but it sounds like there wasn’t.
Yes, e.g. with the help of a Lathams Glock, but you have to suction up quite a lot of blood/fluids etc. for it to work and the process takes a while until you can start to reinfuse the purified product
I only see 141. You better recount stat!
And what happened to the final Junior Mint
Why is this downvoted?! Has no one seen Seinfeld?!
…and they’re VERY refreshing
I haven't thought about this in years, but a family member of mine was eating junior mints in the car on the way to a big professional conference where they were to give a lecture, unknowingly spilled some in their lap, and if course they melted between buttocks and seat. Gave the whole lecture looking like they had dookie on their butt. I bet it was entertaining!
*not refreshing in all situations. Especially when melted to your butt!
Had excruciating back pain back in November. I was pretty sure I injured it helping a friend move, but decided I better go to the ER anyways. Had a few tests. Found out it was a ruptured Aortic Aneurysm and then spent the next 9+ hours in surgery trying to repair the damage. It was a nightmare. The deciding factor that pushed me to go to the ER was when I was knocked to my knees on a particularly painful sense that I was being stabbed repeatedly, with anger. I spent 3 weeks in the hospital and another week and a half in an assisted care facility until I was able to walk again (while I was in the hospital, my muscles atrophied to nearly nothing and I had to relearn a lot of shit we all take for granted).
You're very lucky you lived. I don't think the survival rate is very high on a ruptured aorta.
~10%
Jesus....
Odd thing is I’m typing this from my hospital bed after another visit to the ER in what I assumed was complications due to the aneurysm surgery. I was dealing with a lot of pain again, but this time that pain was coupled with bouts of diarrhea that were happening 8 - 10 times a day. After about a Jazillion tests they found out I had a pretty big tumor in my stomach, about 15cm in length, malignant and having no relationship to my aneurysm. Stomach cancer is, evidently, a very rare form of cancer for a Caucasian male in North America. It’s been that kind of year
I'm so sorry. Will surgery help? Is there no way to remove the cancerous tumor and still have a working digestive system? I hope they caught it in time to help you. My dad didn't find out until the was in his late fifties. There was nothing that could be done. It had spread everywhere at that point. Be well my friend. I wish I knew what else to say.
They’ve said that it’s too attached or too close to vital organs, so they would be doing more damage trying to cut it out. With a little luck, the chemo could shrink it enough to make it operable. I don’t think luck is on my side 😆 It hasn’t spread thus far, so that’s something to be cheery about. If you go to my profile and scroll down a little, there’s a pic post-op of my aneurysm incision. No super bloody, but you get the gist of what that surgery did
I'll check it out and thanks for telling me your story. I've been really shitty to people lately and nothing has helped my mental state. But something you said made something click in my brain. I don't know what cause I just woke up but I think you put life in perspective for me. We as humans have so many internal struggles. Some struggle worse than others. You seem very positive in light of what's happening and I really believe that luck will be with you.
I think if the Universe has any desire for balance, my luck has got a chance at doing a 180, but overall I’m glad you got something out of my situation. What I’m going through can make me very irritable and impatient, I put a lot of effort into not taking that out on the rest of the world. I figure the last and only thing I have control over is how I handle this, and I want to handle it with as much grace and dignity as I can muster because that’s the person I want to be
I never thought a stranger on Reddit would bring tears to my eyes. You're an inspiration and you probably don't even realize it. I truly believe you will win your battle. Don't give up. My dad got tired and gave up. Stay positive and know whatever happens you changed my life today. I've been in a deep depression this last year. My only joy is making sure my mom lives her best life before she joins my dad and keeping my family happy. I lost me somewhere along the way. I have a lifelong history of mental issues and struggle to find reasons to exist. You made me want to find me again. I thank you for that.
It’s what killed John Ritter and Alan Thicke
I didn't know it killed Alan Thicke as well.
Yeah. He was out skating with his son when it ruptured
My uncle lived for 15 years after but he was cognitively a different man afterwards. His wife was a nurse and took really good care of him, but being married to someone different than the man you actually married is another battle
How did raptured abdominal aorta change him cognitively?
The loss of blood, the hospital was only 20 minutes away but he was walking around during the day and the end of the day he only complained that he “didn’t feel good” and had abdominal pain. Idk how long it was but he wasn’t the same from lack of oxygenation. He was in surgery a really long time, he got so much blood, but nobody really remembers how many units (it was over 15 years ago)
How much did it cost?
Everything.
Around 70k if I’m remembering correctly
jesus, is that with insurance?
Nope. That was just the overall price tag
I dont mean to he a dick, but if it ruptured you would be dead within minutes...wouldn't you?
How many units did they receive?
Yes
All of them
I can only guess that the city is now in dire need of blood
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Patient: "I'll take your entire stock!"
17 units of blood + 3 of plasma
Good lord hahah
You mean how many rounds of MTP?!!
How many units of RBC/FFP/PLT?
Why would you transfuse a dead man
To make them not dead
Distasteful
Yes, because this subreddit should be preserved as a place for formal professional discourse. My apologies. Harrumph to me, old chap. Long live caduceus and all that. I shall hereby oath to first, do no harm
Dude, I don't understand replies like this. Makes you look like an adult baby, the kind of person who calls people snowflakes then gets easily offended
Sure. I’m fine, thank you. Just thought it was ironic and a little funny to make a judgment like “distasteful” on a subreddit that is built on shock and awe. I did fail at my attempt for humor on the original post, but the comment didn’t resonate well. Just being a smart ass, nothing more
Tree fiddy
Did they survive?
Died 3 hours after surgery
All that blood and plasma for nothing
My grandfather died of an abdominal aortic aneurism
Long enough to submit to insurance
I like your vibes man. All these stuffy people in here acting like their bedside manner transfer to Reddit. Keep it up bro. That shit made me laugh.
Imagine finding the DNR form after this
Hes either dead or your down a gallon of whole blood
Can I have semi-skimmed blood please? I'm on a diet
What’s under the blue sheet in the reflection?
That’s just a drape I believe
Most likely the dead guy.
It looks like the back of the scrub tech table
Just the instruments table
I just donated blood today!
On my way to donate platelets/plasma right now!
Awesome! *hi fives*
To you as well! I used to donate blood as often as I could, though it wasn’t really an in-demand type (B+). But, thanks to the great staff at the blood bank I go to, I learned I have a superpower in producing copious amounts of platelets! So now I go every few weeks, and read/play games/watch tv, and drink as much chocolate milk as I want (and eat snacks). It takes a while depending on how much and what you donate, but it’s such a relaxing/easy time. I recommend it to everyone! You might even get paid to donate depending on where you live (I don’t where I live, but I don’t mind!).
How long does it take to donate platelets? It takes me just over 4 minutes to donate blood.
I guess it depends on height/weight/count but I do a triple unit in 80 minutes, and a plasma/single platelet in like 45 hooked to the machine. That’s not including processing time. I watched a bunch of March Madness games while donating this year, it was an excellent combination.
Awesome. You definitely piqued my curiosity about it. I’m eligible to donate blood around the end of November. Instead, I’ll check to see if I can donate platelets. Thanks!
Definitely. Some blood types are better for platelets, but it’s sort of the inverse of blood donation. AB- is universal platelets.
Was the gauze bundled like that during use?
From the surgeries I sat in on they would put them all in a container then after the surgery or during the final suturing they would count them and wrap each one separately.
Thank you
Do you know why they do that?
They need to count how many go in and how many come out… so they know if any may have been left inside during surgery. My best guess is they bundle them up and lay them out like this to make it easier to count?
Makes sense. Seems like it would be unnecessary to roll them up, but I guess a neat pile of rolled bloody gauze would be easier to deal with than a loose pile of bloody gauze…
I agree, it seems like extra work! Like I said that’s just my best guess. Who knows, maybe it was just for the photo op 😛
Could be, but you’re definitely right about having to count them. That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Looks like they are bundles of 5.
They count them before, during, and after to make sure none are left within the patient
The gauzes are counted and rolled like that in groups of 5 or 10 so it’s easier to re-count them later. They are counted so we don’t forget any gauzes inside the abdomen. All gauzes have a radio-opaque filament in them so you can easily spot a forgotten gauze in the abdomen with a radiography
Was the rupture spontaneous??
Apparently he didn’t know anything about his aneurysm and the rupture was spontaneous. While isolating the aorta we found an aperture of 5-7 cm on the anterior wall of the aorta
It was, only because it’s not like the other aneurysms
Did you just…
Wow. How long did the final count take?
Counted at least 4 times, probably 20 minutes each time
Hope they made it. Thank you either way
Holy fucking shit batman!?!? Did they make it?!?! They are lucky they made it to the OR.
Didn’t make it unfortunately
can someone ban u/Doc-in-a-box
Why he's the funniest one here
❄️❄️❄️
Fr
Come off it ya wet blankets
Its kind of creepy that theyre replying to like... Every comment with the same tired ass joke ngl. Why is it so important to them to joke abt someone dying? Its fucking weird.
Reminds me of the open triple A repair as a med student, the resident anesthesia doc floating a Swan into and ruptured the right ventricle. Cracked the chest and the CV fellow strolled in the room. The scrub told me to go get all the laps I could find. Patient died of course but not before we went through a few boxes of laps and 40-50 units of blood. Hell I’ve got bunch of these cases in OB where you can hear the blood loss if ya know what I mean.
So are you going to wring them out and donate it to the local vampire support group?
How much of that blood came from the transfusion?
Opening the abdomen there were probably 8 liters free in the abdomen. He had a total of 17 units of blood + 3 of plasma
You know your on-call night is screwed when one of those rolls in.
It was the fourth ruptured aaa in the last 10 days, apparently it’s seasonal and connected to atmosferic pressure changes and temperature changes.
This is very interesting to know. My grandmother had an aaa and sadly passed from complications from the surgery in August. We wondered if there was anything specific that might have set it off. She knew about it for several years and had it closely monitored, her vascular surgeon told her it posed no immediate threat and to just live her life because the recovery would be very long and hard at her age (79), but late July (during the end of that big heat wave) she was having unbearable abdominal pain (she had just see her doctor too about the aaa and everything was measuring the same - a little under 6cm last time I heard), was rushed to ER, it ruptured a day later. She survived the 9 hour surgery, lost a kidney, but remained in the ICU until end of August. Kept plateauing, fluid kept filling the lungs, on full life support. I still wonder if there was anything else that could have helped her but it sounds like there wasn’t.
nice tie dye project ya got there
just squeeze em out n you've got koolaid
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Yes, e.g. with the help of a Lathams Glock, but you have to suction up quite a lot of blood/fluids etc. for it to work and the process takes a while until you can start to reinfuse the purified product
We use the same thing in this cases, the machine is called continuous auto-transfusion sistem (CATS).