{"id":26213,"date":"2024-05-05T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26213"},"modified":"2024-05-05T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T19:22:06","slug":"episode-1052-sixteen-days-in-trilium-hospital-april5-to-20-2024-what-was-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26213","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 1052 SIXTEEN DAYS IN TRILIUM HOSPITAL, APRIL5 TO 20, 2024, WHAT WAS DISCOVERED?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE  1052   SIXTEEN DAYS IN TRILIUM HOSPITAL, APRIL5 TO 20, 2024, WHAT WAS DISCOVERED?<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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MRI \u2014 MAGNETIC  RESONANCE IMAGING <\/div>\n

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\u201cIF YOU GET SCARED PRESS THIS RUBBER BALL AND WE WILL GET YOU OUT\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI WILL JUST CLOSE MY EYES.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhy did he fall?\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy did he not recover from surgery in a normal manner?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat was wrong with him?\u201d<\/div>\n

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I would like to thank the staff at Trillium Hospital, Mississauga, for their<\/div>\n
time and effort spent trying to discover why I fell and could not get up in<\/div>\n
early  April<\/div>\n

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Doctor Grant and Doctor Paige were in charge of my case and authorized<\/div>\n
a host of tests to determine why I fell and lost control of my recovery from<\/div>\n
knee surgery on d\/ecember 12, 2023.  <\/div>\n

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WHAT WAS DONE?<\/div>\n

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1) Four doctors tried to determine why I fell.  Two used hammers to gently<\/div>\n
see if there was   a physical problem.   They found nothing.<\/div>\n
2) An MRI imaging machine was used twice.   One of the occasions lasted for 35 minutes<\/div>\n
Nothing  was found.  I kept my eyes closed but remain mystified how powerful<\/div>\n
magnets and mirrors can provide doctors with images of the internal body<\/div>\n
of human being<\/div>\n
3) A host of tiny wires were attached To my brain to determine if I had<\/div>\n
heart trouble.  ECG – Electro Cardio Graph.  Nothing irregular was found.<\/div>\n
4) Sixteen days of observation most of which were spent flat on my back <\/div>\n
in the geriatric ward where there were cases far more serious than mine.<\/div>\n
Nothing was found.<\/div>\n
5) Dr. Grant discussed the case in detail with my wife Majorie.<\/div>\n
6) Dr. Paige authorized home care and released me from Trillium hospital<\/div>\n
as an outpatient  A professional therapist was assigned to  supervise my recovery 7) Marjorie and our son Andrew rearranged our house \u2014 beds moved, railing installed,<\/div>\n
five pull bars installed in shower and external doorway ,   House was was made safe.<\/div>\n
Sending a man to bathe me seemed \u2018over the top\u2019 however.<\/div>\n
7) Marjorie would take care of the rest.  No easy task,  Marjorie thought the problem<\/div>\n
was a yeast infection which caused severe swelling in legs and groin.<\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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WORST PART OF HOSPITAL<\/div>\n

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Wearing adult diapers that were changed regularly by no  nonsense nurses.<\/div>\n
Most embarrassing.<\/div>\n

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END RESULT<\/div>\n

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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME.”<\/div>\n
\u201cThen why did you fall so often?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThat will remain a mystery\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYour task now is to begin therapy all over again.\u201d<\/div>\n

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There are a lot of people who fall and  have no one to help them recover.<\/div>\n
I am a lucky man.<\/div>\n

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THANKS<\/div>\n

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Tg nurses from Tibet and Figi and a ll places in between.   Additional thanks<\/div>\n
to recreational therapists Natalie snd Pakizah who took me out in the<\/div>\n
sunshine and awarded me a tiny chocolate bar when I won a game of<\/div>\n
inpatient Bingol<\/div>\n

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EPISODE  1052   SIXTEEN DAYS IN TRILIUM HOSPITAL, APRIL5 TO 20, 2024, WHAT WAS DISCOVERED? alan skeoch May 5, 2024 MRI \u2014 MAGNETIC  RESONANCE IMAGING  \u201cIF YOU GET SCARED PRESS THIS RUBBER BALL AND WE WILL GET YOU OUT\u201d \u201cI WILL JUST CLOSE MY EYES. \u201cWhy did he fall?\u2019\u201d \u201cWhy did he not recover from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}