In the ER with a bowel obstruction, so why are they imaging my chest?

Heh, I don't give a shit one if you're a member, a blue name, or an AC....I will rip your fucking ignorant posts right from my thread.


What the fuck is wrong with you people?....


I'm having a hard time, and you're fucking trolling dumbass posts to me?


Y'all have grave problems....

Fuuuck. My body can't take the stress right now.


Fuck you trolls.....


...I can't be on GLP with my buddies while having this issue, due to the trolls.

Normally they don't upset me like they are now....but I'm not going to allow it to cause me problems, and they're so fucking ugly, they just can't stop.


Those of you having kind thoughts and saying prayers for me, thank you....please if you will, keep it up. I do love you and you and you (etc.) very much!....


I'm going to HAVE to be alone now. A sarcastic "thanks" to those rat cretin bastards who can't manage to be decent people.

Maybe they did in case you need surgery.
They need to make sure your lungs are clear before they put you under.
It's pretty much always part of pre-op.

Good luck OP! Hang in there!

Levity of difficult situations can help you through difficulties.

I do hope everything works out and you feel better soon.

The morphine you were given causes bowel obstruction

And all of these happened within days of each other. Just seems strange.
I hate the thought of you in pain, sweetie

Sauerkraut and smashed sweet taters do it for me. Whoosh! The miracle cure. Avoid fried foods and red meat like the plague. Sometimes I will brave it out and mix some diatomaceous earth (food grade) in a drink or salad and that really gets things 'moving'.

No, it causes constipation. I have taken care of that before I get or got backed up.

I had "movement" this morning.....


The obstruction was not about me being constipated, ffs.

I'm okay, just run down. They suck the life right outta ya. I think maybe my stomach is sore from all the vomiting.


I made my chicken broth, and despite the fact I have zero appetite, it does taste very good. The hospital broth?....no bueno.





All I put in the broth was pink salt....so yummy tasting.


I'm going to blend up some organic asparagus I have with some of the broth. It's a fairly mild veggie....harhar, just makes your pee stinky....

Those two things done, and I'm set for food for two to three days.....

Well, thank you.

Posters posting about hamsters and 13 year old jokes are just not appropriate for this thread.

If you had had an obstruction you would understand.

"Levity" is going to be a tough sell for me right now, because I just went to fucking hell and back.

There's really very little that's funny about my situation right now.

If you've another joke, though, I'd be happy to be told it!....


I do like laughing....

Hope everything works out okay and that you feel better soon.

They are doing a chest xray to make sure that you do not have fluid in your lungs or in your heart or chest cavity.
Sometimes a bowel obstruction can cause fluid to build up.

Look its cheap treatment and it helps a lot of things, rub it all over your belly, up over the liver. I do it and put on a tank top wife beater type top - and then one of those waist trainer things that makes you sweat to heat the area up. Or you could put a heating pad on and lay down. Some will advocate for the flannel packs and that's kind of extensive to me. I smear it on thick, put on a tank top, put the waist trainer on top and go about my business. It will absorb through the skin.

I hope you feel better sweetie you have been through an awful lot these past couple of years - you should head that cosmic message to slow down - I know you will fight that thought - but spirit is getting damn insistent with you about it.

They took the chest X ray because it's the standard procedure if surgery is considered needed.

What a waste of electrons......

You think that's what's going on?....I'm being "put out to pasture," so to speak?

"Go on, cosmic, you've done enough"....bah!

Noooooo, I'm not ready! I'm still active, and love being active. I am pretty much loving my life now. I got my consciousness all cleaned up, just to sit back and not help?...it makes no sense to me....

I don't want to slow down, lovey...AND my expanded self....

Well, if it's "standard procedure," then why didn't they do a chest x-ray the first time?...they just fucked up then?

When I went to urgent care (a walk in clinic) Tuesday morning, they x-rayed my abdomen, but not my chest, for her to see whether or not I was obstructing, which I was. Did she fuck up, too?


And HI, lovey! Such a long time since I've seen you. I sure hope you are doing well....

They want to see if you have CoVid-19...

They want to intubate you. Hospital gets $39K for each intubated patient and $13K if you have CoVid-19...

It's all about the money...

Yes, they wanted to see if I had the virus.

They were not trying to intubate me....jeez.

These doctors, nurses, techs that helped me were like angels to me. They were simply wonderful.


Go on with yourself, and your suspicions and suspicious nature.


FFS, do you think if they were trying to do anything like that to me, that I wouldn't have ripped the hospital down...even in the compromised state I was in?


Lawdy, take me for a roll over artist, eh?....

Sorry to hear about your pain because i've heard that bowel obstructions are one of the worst pains anyone could ever experience. Good luck in the management of such pain. which can be rough.

The chest x-ray is probably standard procedure for any surgical procedures to be done in hospital. I would not fret about it.

I can relate to your abdominal pain. It was in mid-january where I had experienced extreme abdominal pain,.. to the point where I was also forced to go the hospital.

a CAT scan was taken and my surgeon found a 10cm. abscess in my colon, due to diverticulosus. (sp?). I was admitted immediately and 12 hrs later shipped to another hospital for drainage of the abscess and then forced to wear a colostomy bag for 1 month. For 6 weeks It was the worst pain experience in my life rivalling the pain of extracting a tooth without anaesthetic!!

I hope all goes well with you CG

You're one of the finest ever on here dear, hope you're well and out of there soon!

Thank you, lovey....

Yikes! given what YOU went through, I'm looking okay....

Like I've said, an obstruction is worse than a massive heart attack...and I know, because I had one last year. Just barely worse, but without any doubt worse.

I'm not in the pain I was in now. I just feel like I went to hell and back, and got in a fight while I was there. Every muscle in my entire torso is sore as hell from all the intense barfing. A cough is painful. I just clutch myself while coughing, to try and keep it all together in there.

Don't need anything getting shoved out of shape again....

I fully admit that I am skerred it's going to happen again....and I most rarely ever say I'm scared of anything these days. I am TERRIFIED it's going to happen again.

They say it's not unusual for one to follow the other. They did when they first started over two years ago. I had one every weekend for four weeks, and then another about two weeks later...then another about a week and a half later. Heh, I finally went to the ER for that one.

So yeah....I'm scared of it happening again. I'm glad I have an appt. with a specialist next week, because I may just blow my brains out if I'm going to be having something like nine BOs in four months again, like two years ago. It's just too fucking hard.

In all seriousness, probably standard protocol these days?





Last Edited by Bomb Cyclone on 05/21/2020 09:48 PM

Thank you, lovey....

I'm not in the hospital anymore. I've never stayed there as long as they want me to, the two other times. I was asking to go home at 3 am, but the surgeon told me that wouldn't be "prudent"....good word choice for him, because I like that word, it means something. Pfht, it was the middle of the night, and I wouldn't of had a way home anyway.

The night time dispatcher for the transportation company I work for told me he wouldn't give me a free ride home....and they do give us drivers free rides if we have some place we need to go, and don't have our work vehicle. I of course didn't have mine. I was in no shape to drive myself to the ER.

I called my my boss yesterday after I got home and asked if they had changed policy. She was mortified I was at the hospital and needing a ride home, and was refused. She will be having a discussion with him.

Harhar, I was home 12 hours after my heart attack and the stent put in. I was supposed to be in the hospital five days after the bowel resection two years ago....I went home in 2.5 days.

I DO NOT like being in hospitals......

They really do creep me out....heh, probably because of all the shots/vaccines I had to get as a kid when we moved to the Philippines.

And of course fuck all if you can get any rest in one. There was always someone coming and checking on me...but that's okay. But still, they are not a place to get rest.

Just saw this thread, CG. You've been through it, girlfriend!

Sounds like the worst is behind you.

Now, give yourself permission to REST. You deserve it. Don't push things. Get kitty and do some serious couch time.

Will be praying for you....

Hope you feel better soon!

Yes, Lil She snuggled up so close to me today while laying down. I was petting her and she turned her head around and bit me....it's her way, she does that....

I was so not in the mood for it, though. Her little teeth hurt, and I've had enough hurt for a spell. I told her no, and she gave me one of those looks she gives, ya know the spirited kitteh look, and I told her to step off. She got up, and then started to come at me again....harhar, the little shit.

I sat up, and that made her run off. She didn't want to fuck with me right then, and she knew it.


Did you know I love-love my little crap monster kitteh so very much?....harhar.

Really, I do....but she is a little stinker and a half....

They always do a chest xray prior to surgery. Maybe they think your obstruction will need an operation to resolve. They might also be looking for tumors because obstructions can be caused by a tumor. They are trying to rule out that it is the only one.

I did not have surgery this time!....

The time I did have surgery, they did not give me a chest x-ray.....

I'm sorry, AC...but either some of y'all are thick, or you just haven't read the thread.

Well, due to the fact this is not the first time you have had the same health issue in a week, they (doctors) have to consider since the moment you told them it's a recurring issue some pathologies that requiere surgery, the chest x ray its a parameter to evaluate before surgery by the surgeon and anesthesiologist. Hope you are doing well now.

I'm doing fine, been working in the ER room with covid 19 patients since march, haven't catch it yet, I consider myself lucky.