Pokes:
1. 3 Triple Lumen Catheters
2. 1 Port-a-catheter
3. Around 10 “Mid-lines”
4. Around 10 PIC lines
5. More small IV placements than I could count
6. More blood draws than I could count
7. Around 6 Blood Gases (OUCH!)
8. Many, many insulin injections for diabetes
9. Many, many jabs to test blood sugar
10. 9 Chest Tubes
11. 2 Spinal Taps
12. 4 Epidurals
Stomach Stuff:
13. 1 G-Tube
14. A Nissen Fundoplication
15. A Pyloroplasty
16. Too much Go-Lightly (cruel brand name)
17. Enzymes, enzymes, enzymes
18. PH probe
19. Motility Study
20. Esophageal Study
21. 3 Endoscopies
22. 5 NG tubes
Lungs Stuff:
23. 2 Double Lung Transplants (of course)
24. Somewhere around 20 Bronchoscopes
25. An equal number of Lavages
26. Galloons and Gallons of IV antibiotics
27. Daily Nebulizer treatments
28. Intubation
29. More chest X-Rays than I could ever count
30. More Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT’s) than I could ever count
Head Stuff:
31. Around 7 CAT Scans (lung and sinus)
32. 1 MRI (sinus)
Medications:
You wouldn’t believe it if I told you…
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Can I just say it's a relief to see the word "OUCH" next to blood gases on your resume? I hate them so much, and felt like there was something wrong with me that they hurt so much!
On an unrelated note (sort of), have you heard of or read "Breathing for a Living" by Laura Rothenberg? It's a memoir written by a CF patient who had a lung transplant and in addition to straight prose, it includes e-mail correspondance, letters, poems, etc. It's a great book, and one that I thought might interest you. NPR picked it up and it got a lot of press....
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