Category Archives: Dieulafoy’s lesion episode

Another Bloody August. Mysteries and Muddles. And Hospitalists.

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

Silly me. I look back on my post from earlier this month, An Uneventful Day, Unlike Last August 2, and wonder. There I wrote about how on August 2, 2010, I had an arterial lesion burst where the esophagus meets the … Continue reading →

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An Uneventful Day, Unlike Last August 2

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

I know what I was doing a year ago this afternoon: throwing up copious amounts of blood. I posted about various aspects of my Dieulafoy’s lesion (a burst artery where the esophagous meets the stomach) episode last August, but here I … Continue reading →

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Of Dieulafoy’s Lesion, Diagnoses and Doctors

Posted on September 12, 2010 by

In one of my posts last month, At Risk for Esophageal Varices and I Nearly Bleed Out from a Gastric Ulcer: How Weird Is That?, I raised these questions: can a burst esophageal varice adjacent to the cardia be mistaken for a spurting gastric ulcer? … Continue reading →

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Reading Your Ambulance or EMS Report, Part 2

Posted on September 2, 2010 by

Picking up from where I left off in my previous post, there are a few more boxes left to read on the Ambulance or EMS Report, and then there is a narrative or Assessment. In the center of my form … Continue reading →

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Reading Your Ambulance or EMS Report, Part 1

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

Let’s say you too got hauled off in the ambulance and are as morbidly curious as I am and so got hold of the report your Emergency Medical Services team left with the ER. Now what? How do you read … Continue reading →

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In Praise of EMTs and Paramedics

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

Until recently, my experience with ambulances was limited to thinking: I’m glad it’s not me in there, please let it not be carrying anyone I love, godspeed you to help whoever you are, and, if driving, I hope that ambulance … Continue reading →

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“She became dizzy and came to the emergency room for further evaluation”

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

Remember my post before last, Melena, Hematemesis, Hypovolemic Shock — and A Lot of Love? You know, the one about vomiting up great tarry mounds of clotted blood, losing consciousness, and getting oxygen and IVs in the ambulance before it left … Continue reading →

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At Risk for Esophageal Varices and I Nearly Bleed Out from a Gastric Ulcer: How Weird Is That?

Posted on August 10, 2010 by

If you’ve read any of my posts on primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), you were probably surprised by yesterday’s post that there wasn’t some sort of medical muddle involved. Wonder no longer: there was. It’s just that my emphasis was different … Continue reading →

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Melena, Hematemesis, Hypovolemic Shock — and A Lot of Love

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

Gore alert: Medical terms in title refer to situations involving blood, blood, and more blood. Were mine a glass house, what you would ordinarily see are four people: Mom, Dad, 14-year old Daughter, and 20-year old Son sitting in separate … Continue reading →

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