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Weight Loss/Maintenance

rox63

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6. Did they get rid of the blood clot?

Reply to spinbaby (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 11, 2012, 03:31 PM

Dec 2012

I can't see how they would send you home if it was still there. But the shortness of breath is worrisome. Did they give you any breathing exercises to do? Or an incentive spirometer? That's the device they usually give people after abdominal surgery, to prevent them from getting pneumonia or lung collapse.

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I'm home--here's what happened [View all] spinbaby Dec 2012 OP

Hospitals go crazy with the IV fluids noamnety Dec 2012 #1

I'm glad you're home and doing relatively well. The weight gain is auntAgonist Dec 2012 #2

Only parts of me are doing well spinbaby Dec 2012 #3

a fever is not good OR normal. Call your Dr. ASAP. n/t auntAgonist Dec 2012 #4

They don't seem worried about it spinbaby Dec 2012 #5

Did they get rid of the blood clot? rox63 Dec 2012 #6

The blood clot is small spinbaby Dec 2012 #7

The fever worries me a bit, you don't need to be throwing up either. I had lots of that after my auntAgonist Dec 2012 #8

Zofran perhaps? Lars39 Dec 2012 #10

It might very well have been Zofran. Thanks for the memory jog. auntAgonist Dec 2012 #11

I'm worried about the vomiting as well rox63 Dec 2012 #9