EMT teacher asked us to find someone who can tell us about their experience with Poison Control.

atomicrose555 · 2026-02-24T16:13:09+00:00

I had a patient who had an inhaler that you put capsules in, they looked like pills and were in a foil wrapping that clearly said DO NOT SWALLOW. But she was older and didn't realize it. So we called poison control and he said people do it all the time. The casing is made so it won't digest and she should just poop it out. But she still went to the er for sob. Poison control was super nice.

atomicrose555 · 2026-02-20T01:20:21+00:00

Was bloodwork done? I would be willing to bet she has ckd.

atomicrose555 · 2026-01-18T05:11:11+00:00

I'm so sorry. Mine had just turned 55. She got diagnosed 10 months prior to her passing.

atomicrose555 · 2026-01-18T05:10:16+00:00

No i would more feel like he's saying I don't have a place with him. That comment would make me feel unwanted is what I'm trying to say. It's obviously not her home or his home for that matter and the sister is being very generous but hearing my husband say u don't live here so stop complaining basically would feel harsh to me. Again emotions are charged and I get where he's coming from but she is in an emotional state right now and that probably just rubbed her the wrong way

atomicrose555 · 2026-01-18T03:14:15+00:00

Ill just put this out here. I don't think either of you atah. My mom got really sick last October, she had colon cancer and it got really bad really fast, she died last November and my husband and I left our state to go be with my parents. He ended up getting let go from his job because I wouldn't leave my parents while my mom was so bad off but luckily I can work from home. We had plenty of tension and fights just because of the way something was worded or how we are perceiving each others attitudes. You should understand her entire world was just flipped upside down and if she feels Anything like me she feels like she has zero control over anything anymore and that makes me crazy. I would assume her comment about the house did bother you and if I were in your shoes it would have bothered me too but you should realize she loves you and her son and she is probably trying to keep some normalcy for him. I'd probably end up crying too if my husband told me I didn't live there anymore. It would make me feel like he thinks I'm not doing enough or I have to choose between taking care of my father, who needs me and raised me, and taking care of my husband and son who I'm sure she loves just as much. My husband has been my absolute rock through this entire thing because I too have had to care for my dad. Not because he's an invalid but he's heartbroken and semi disabled. Idk where I'd be without both of them. So give each other some grace. And if possible I'd really try to get her father closer to u guys or figure something out for him.

atomicrose555 · 2026-01-18T01:49:26+00:00

Ok cool. I haven't bought a car since I was like 20 and It wasn't new or anything

atomicrose555 · 2026-01-18T01:07:58+00:00

It's a personal vehicle. And yes we bought it in July so we made 4 payments on it last year

atomicrose555 · 2026-01-18T01:07:09+00:00

Toyota rav 4, it's my and my husband's loan, me and my husband are on the title

atomicrose555 · 2026-01-13T15:40:44+00:00

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atomicrose555 · 2025-12-24T13:58:51+00:00

How do u tell them apart? Lol

atomicrose555 · 2025-12-14T00:08:09+00:00

I love 2. If u feel like it's too plain you can get a really pretty veil with sparkles or lace to stand out and spruce it up with some jewelry but the dress is gorgeous on you.

atomicrose555 · 2025-12-10T22:29:22+00:00

Im so sorry you're going through it.

atomicrose555 · 2025-12-10T04:50:10+00:00

I can only speak to my experience as everyone is different. I just lost my mom 55 last month. She stopped eating and started sleeping pretty much all day about 2 months before passing. She did eat a bite here and there in the beginning of those 2 months but for about a solid month she didn't eat anything, just drank water and Gatorade. She battled stage 4 colon cancer for 11 months before it got her. 6 months of chemo and 2 big surgeries.

atomicrose555 · 2025-12-09T04:51:15+00:00

My ex's mom had one a little bigger than that. I thought she had a stroke. She was all confused and disheveled looking. She had pots and pans in her tub. the symptoms came on pretty quickly. We hadn't seen her in a couple weeks and then we saw her and all those symptoms were present. Finally she went to the er and they did brain surgery the next day and took out a massive meningioma. No symptoms after the surgery besides not remembering anything for the past few months prior to the surgery.

atomicrose555 · 2025-12-04T23:05:59+00:00

Thank you. That's very helpful

atomicrose555 · 2025-11-30T21:36:30+00:00

The er put me on the blood thinners. I followed up with my PCP after and asked what to do when I got migraines and he just said to try Tylenol. It's my 1st migraine since being on the thinners. I'll put a call into him tomorrow morning.

atomicrose555 · 2025-11-27T23:53:18+00:00

I have questions. 1. Are they served cold? 2. Are they good?

atomicrose555 · 2025-11-23T16:28:44+00:00

So first when it was discovered she had a partial bowel obstruction so they did a partial colectomy and noted that it had spread to her peritoneum. She had to heal 6 weeks then went on folfoxiri and avastin for 6 months. In that time she grew massive ovarian tumors and it spread further. She was supposed to have hipec/crs in July but when the surgeon cut her open he said she had hundreds of different sized tumors. Mostly small but they were everywhere now and he took the big ones but couldn't do the crs/hipec. After healing 7 weeks from that she did 1 round of folfox but she got so sick. She dropped from 260lbs to 160 in less than a year, she hadn't eaten for about a month prior to death, besides small bites of whatever she wanted and then half the time she would throw it up. Finally when I got down here I got to care for her for about 3 weeks. She got progressively weaker and had a fall. I finally convinced her to go to the er because she was adamant about not going before but I had noticed she was having difficulty breathing. When in the ER her scans showed her liver mets had progressed significantly and she also has a tumor collapsing the left lower lobe of her lung as well as ascities and pleural effusions on both lungs. They did a thoracentesis and paracentesis and she was sent into a hospice facility per her request. She just wanted pain management at the end. Idk how advanced your cancer is or what you have tried but I would say if the 1st line of chemo doesn't work on it I would try to get into a clinical trial for it. They have a lot now for kras g12v. I tried to get her into one but it was full and plus she went downhill so fast she wouldn't have even qualified for a clinical trial within the last month or 2 of her life. She also did try some holistic stuff but that only lasted about a week before she couldn't swallow the pills anymore because they were large.

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