Apology, and thanks.

S

Spectre

Staff Alumnus
I helped with and participated in a seminar with the martial arts organization (the Jissen Kobudo Jinenkan) that I train with starting last Thursday. The seminar was put on by Lt. Col Fumio Manaka, who only is able to come to America a few times a year.

I was so wrapped up in the seminar, that I neglected to inform TFL members that my good friend Spartacus- Byron Quick- was in the hospital. Byron had suffered a severe nosebleed and complications. He works in an ER, and was actually transferred via ambulance to another hospital with better facilities. (I'm not sure of all the particulars, because I couldn't really understand what he was saying, when he explained to me what had been done. :))

Byron is now out of the hospital, and almost back up to speed, but I am sorry that I, in my preoccupation, did not give TFL members a chance to extend their support to him.

There are few things in life more important than a good friend, and I have some good ones. I thank whatever powers that be that I did not lose one this past week.

Byron, I love you, buddy. I'm glad you're still with us.

-John
 
So John, at the risk of being lazy, whuts his email so's we came send him some regards, best wishes, and other sorts of 'encouragement' for a speedy recovery ?

Thx, M2
 
As I understand it, (the story was related to me while he had some apparatus implanted, and was on narcotics, so I got one word in three!) they think the bleed was related to high blood pressure. I suppose nosebleed is preferable to stroke, after all!

Anyway, he barely ate anything for a week, and lost a lot of blood. He also missed the seminar that he had been planning to attend for months, which was probably the hardest blow of all.
 
Hi, guys. Glad to be here...in more ways than one. While I was lying in that hospital bed in a morphine haze with my right nostril pulled halfway to my right eye one thing kept running through my mind...my death certificate with the cause of death-nosebleed. Argggh!

Sunday, Feb. 20 my nose began to bleed just as I woke up. I got it stopped but it began again about 30 minutes later and would not stop. Direct pressure, still bleeding. Ice pack, ditto. Nifty little interrogation device called a Rhino Rocket (prepackaged nasal packing) just got totally saturated and continued to bleed like a leaky faucet. Two days before I had run out of my blood pressure medicine and brilliantly decided to wait until I could go to my hometown pharmacy to resupply. Wrong move. About midnight after trying to control the bleed for almost nine hours the ER physician decided to ship me out to the ENT specialists. I told him to send me to MCG (Medical College of Georgia) in Augusta. Well, the ENT resident on call went through various interrogation devices until about 5am when he surrendered, put in a nasal balloon, pumped it up until my septum occluded my other nostril. That hurts even with IV morphine. The whole time I'm thinking,"Great way to start a vacation."
Well, the posterior balloon slowly collapsed allowing the bleeding to start again which was not stopped until 3AM Tuesday by a very ingenious torture device that they created on the spot. By this time the morpine IV drip was on continuous infusion as well as a demand button and they kept asking,"How's your pain? You look so miserable." Pain, what pain? I can't remember my name, rank, or serial number. But I was miserable. My hemoglobin is half what it was before all this and my hematocrit (the percentage of red blood cells in blood)is 27. It should be at least 40. A ten year old girl could probably whip me with one hand tied right now. I worked today for the first time in two weeks and thank God it was an easy shift.

It appears now that the bleed was started by a sinus infection and aggravated by the blood pressure. So I'm on antibiotics and iron supplements and am just a bump away from surgery and blood transfusions if I have complications. Keeping a real close eye on myself right now. And that concludes how I spent my vacation. Darn it.

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Byron Quick
 
Well, jeez man, slow down and take it easy! We don't want to loose anybody from a nose bleed (or anything else!!)

Welcome back safe and sound.

Roon
 
Byron, also glad to hear you're doing better. Take good care of yourself.

I have to admit - I almost split a gut when I read your comment about 'cause of death' being a nose bleed. While I look forward to living a long and happy life, I dearly hope that my departure doesn't warrant any amusement at my own reason for checking out ... ;)

Regards from AZ
 
Hell, I already KNEW the value of medication.
It ain't supposed to apply to me, though. Nurses make lousy patients.

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Byron Quick
 
Byron....Thanks for checking in...and I'm glad to hear that you are hanging in there...and that you haven't lost your sense of humor!!! ;) Take care of yourself...keep us posted...and pete's sake....don't run out of meds again!!!

Honestly...glad you are okay. And John is right...there are few things in life more important than a good friend. :D
 
Spartacus,
I promise I will never complain about a flight delay and how it messes up vacation plans again ;) That just plain s*cks as a way to spend time off. I know you're a few States away, but if it comes to the transfusions, there must be some way to donate across State lines.

I promise to not give the Doc's a hard time 'bout it either if it comes to that ;)
 
Take care Spartacus, Byron!
In Spanish there's a saying "En casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo": (roughly) -
"In a blacksmith's home, a wooden knife"
Yea - it shouldn't happen to an ER... :)
Glad to hear you are recovering
Peter K.
 
I suffered from chronic and debilitating nosebleeds as a child, and anyone who has never experienced seeing all that red stuff gushing away and not being able to stop it -- well, it's not something I'd wish on anyone. (Well, maybe one or two people ;))

Take the tablets, mate!! ;)

B
 
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