What Now?
Having chronic illnesses has been really life-altering for me. I was not prepared to find out that I have chronic kidney disease on top of everything else that's going on. I spent four days in the I.C.U and had to receive six units of blood because of severe blood loss due to my heavy menstrual bleeding.
I know I should have taken care of this back in 2012 when the OBGYN at the other hospital told me to see a gynecologist after they had to give me five units then. In the past five years, I have had three blood transfusions. My OBGYN Dr. Julia said that I was losing blood faster than I could replace it. Dr. Bowes who was the staff internal medicine was trying to comfort me, but all I could think about was not feeling like a woman, with children were not possible.
I know that the hysterectomy has to be done, but I wanted to wait until after Christmas before having to think about such a heavy subject. Something else that's scary is that because I waited so long to see a doctor I have no idea how long my kidneys have been bad. What I do know is that they only took me off of the ibuprofen back in July of 2017 because it was damaging my kidneys. I want to know why it took eight years for them to find that my kidneys were not filtering properly.
I am sure they knew the risks eight years ago that there could possibly be kidney damage with long-term use. Someone has to answer for this.
I know I should have taken care of this back in 2012 when the OBGYN at the other hospital told me to see a gynecologist after they had to give me five units then. In the past five years, I have had three blood transfusions. My OBGYN Dr. Julia said that I was losing blood faster than I could replace it. Dr. Bowes who was the staff internal medicine was trying to comfort me, but all I could think about was not feeling like a woman, with children were not possible.
I know that the hysterectomy has to be done, but I wanted to wait until after Christmas before having to think about such a heavy subject. Something else that's scary is that because I waited so long to see a doctor I have no idea how long my kidneys have been bad. What I do know is that they only took me off of the ibuprofen back in July of 2017 because it was damaging my kidneys. I want to know why it took eight years for them to find that my kidneys were not filtering properly.
I am sure they knew the risks eight years ago that there could possibly be kidney damage with long-term use. Someone has to answer for this.
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