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Your sweet readers truly love you! I have seen lovely comments on other’s blogs, to be sure, but not to the degree on this one.

You have taken the time through the years to educate us, inspire and encourage us and to share your life with us. Even recovering from your hospitalization ordeal, you teach and encourage us.

Thank you Robin. I pray Yahweh will soon heal you of your infirmities.

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Lamentations 3:19-24
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
Surely my soul remembers
And is bowed down within me.
This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have HOPE.
The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is your faithfulness!

Bless you, sweet Robin…

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Robin, I am a family physician and am horrified at what has been happening to you. You desperately need an endometrial ablation, in which the GYN “fries” the lining of your uterus (under general anesthesia) so that the tissue is killed and cannot grow, and therefore cannot bleed anymore. No more periods! And more importantly for you, no more hemorrhaging!

This procedure is very safe and very low-risk. The lining of the uterus that is “fried” is thin, but the thick muscle wall of the uterus is left intact, so there is almost no chance of going through and puncturing the uterus. The anesthesia is the risky part of the procedure, but for you it would obviously be worth it, and the GYN might be able to do it under a spinal or epidural, with less stress for your heart. Endometrial ablation would be tremendously safer for you than a hysterectomy, and you are back to your normal activities the next day. Very seldom does anyone even need any pain medicine afterwards.

So I strongly encourage you to call your GYN and demand that he do this for you. If ever there was a patient who needs this procedure, it is you! If he seems reluctant, or does not do this procedure fairly often(2-4 times a month or more) then ask for a referral to a GYN who does do this procedure. The thermal balloon ablation has a better success rate than the laser type, so I would go with it.

Please feel free to e-mail me at hsmomof3blessings@comcast.net if you would like. I wish I lived closer and could help intercede for you with the doctors there. You need a good family doctor or internist who is willing to look at and manage your whole health picture, rather than just “treat and street” as is so unfortunately common these days.

By the way, it makes me furious that your potassium level was not checked when you had those hours of excruciating leg cramps. These were an obvious sign of low potassium, which will kill you through heart rhythm disturbances if it gets severe enough. It sounds like you were getting dangerously close to this! And your suffering was COMPLETELY preventable, and should never have been allowed to happen. (BTW, it is rare for anyone’s potassium to get so low that they have agonizing muscle cramps and heart rate arrhythmias like you did, so they should have been suspicious up front that your leg cramps indicated a serious potassium deficiency!)

Oh, Robin! My heart aches for you. You need a friend or family member with a little bit of medical knowledge to stay with you at the hospital. But you need one who is not afraid to make a scene, even yelling in the hallway if needed to get an answer or get something done. The residents can ALWAYS call the attending physician at any hour of the night, but seldom do because it makes them look bad, but if they are forced to do so they will. Or at least an intern can be forced to call the resident who is supervising him/her, or the nurses can be forced to call the intern, if a family member or friend is screaming in the hallway that the patient is not getting the care she needs.

This is outside the comfort zone of proper behavior for most of us, but unfortunately is needed all too often for patients in the hospital, so get someone who is not afraid to make a scene on your behalf. I hate the shortcomings of our medical system also; it is tragically ironic that you had state-of-the-art angioplasty that saved your life one month, then nearly die the next for want of a potassium infusion!!!

Anyway, my prayers are with you. Do write me and I will give you my phone number and we can talk, if you would like. Take care!