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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 191055" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>hmm, I am haveing difficulty posting.......</p><p>I typed up this reply much earlier today.....yeah we did call posion control last nite......they are who directed us to call 911 and then later they said each area has different rules/laws etc for gas spills etc......so they told us to ask fire dept and er.......</p><p>well, hopefully my reply I wrote earlier will post now. </p><p>~~~</p><p>when it rains, it POURS, of course. SUPOSED to be replacing 40+ yr old carpet, BUT this morning the hot water heater gave way. GRRR so now it is emergency replacement of THAT. and ALL the commotion involved.our hot water heater does not have a seperate shut off valve, so we have NO water for now. Grrr. </p><p>Got classic coke to wash her clothes and her body and hair in and I do have um...greased lightening degreaser and also um....goop? plus a few gallons of vinegar becuz I have been useing that as a cleaner recently. FOr now the clothes and shoes are outside in the rain......"airing out" now I will wait for the rain to end and the air to dry them and will see how they smell- and will likely soak them in coke and then degreaser.....see how it goes. today we stopped at 2 diff gas stations and 2 diff auto parts stores to ask what would work well, and NONE of them had any ideas..yeesh. easy child also asked her science teacher, cuz she DID go to school today. He said "nothing" would help on her hair. <sigh> </p><p>She was treated at our ER last nite......her ob gyne is her primary doctor and is also the High Risk ob gyne for our county, and for all extended area Medicaide patients, no other docs would take her, we sure tried when she first started with this hyper emesis. She has ChampVA as her primary insurance and it covers medications VERY VERY well, but most of our area docs just never want to believe how good our Rx coverage is...the zofran and phenergan are pricey......and if they would just write us a long term Rx, we could get them via medications by mail, 3 months worth- FREE to us, totally. Alas there is no website for me to access to prove to darned doctor, and darned doctor REALLY is nasty and know it all. Just like the docs etc dismissed the hyperemesis at first, and refused to take THAT seriously.....(and then turned it around and tried to later blame us for NOT being clear, after they had repeatedly accused us of dramatizing) now they are doing the same with the fainting. We are not sure if the fainting is due to hormones, blood pressure changes orthostatic? or the dramatic weight loss, or arrythmias electrolyte imbalance....or what, but er dismisses it and doctor downplays it and says it "should" pass soon. GRRR. WIC is still acting like we are makeig all this up just to be dramatic. Dr refused to keep easy child out of work any longer....even tho she fainted at work at her register it is ALL so frustrating, so ugly, so idiotic, but a new doctor is just not a possibility.....our doctor has this great reputation and is The High Risk doctor and all that etc.....so noone else will touch easy child with a 10 ft stethoscope. The good news is the hyperemesis IS backing down some FINALLY and the fainting is getting less frequent, and is usually either very early morning or late evening.....so- we are not sure if the gas itself caused this, or if she even did faint at the gas station......and- I had no idea she was GOING to the gas station, - I had been doing her driving etc and getting the gas etc. </p><p>The car is a Jeep with a soft top, and when it was brand new we had severe vandalism issues here related to difficult child and her sped class......and 3 times in 1 week the top - all sides and back got slashed to shreds. Ins paid on it once, but the next times the polie did not properly do the incident report and ins refused to cover it and when the perp was brought to court, becuz the police did not properly do the paperwork, judge refused to order restitution, so --the jeep has no side or back windows--------it is completely open to elements most of the time. - which means it CAN air out, LOL.......but will it air out? I will try the vinegar and also charcoal.....see how it works. I was shocked at the amount of gasoline everywhere. ALl I know for sure is she had the pump in her gas tank and it was going, filling her tank up- yes, on the mechanism that keeps it going even if you are not holding the hose? And then the hose was in her face spraying her full on in her face, and then somehow in her car etc, too? She is not even sure how it did get shut off finally. The gas station is in town here, one block from county police headquarters, right here a couple blocks from home, small town.....same gas station we have used for all 3 of our cars for 20 years. It is not a super busy one, not a very large one, and it is not isolated at all. 2 islands of pumps and a mini mart inside. surrounded by single family houses. It was 530 in afternoon. </p><p>Thank goodness she got in at an eye specialist for tomorrow morning one who I guess WILL accept her Medicaide......I am glad becuz this same ER said my sons eye was "fine" when nope- it was penetrated and destroyed and time was a huge factor in him loseing his eye.and also my best friend - they kept telling her her eye was fine.when it was full of melanoma that spread and she died. They do not have any clue what a normal eye or injured eye looks like. </p><p>I SWEAR so many of the medical people in this town must fake their way thru an exam. I had said the ob gynes nurse could NOT possibly have properly checked PCs blood pressure at one office visit becuz she said it was normal and she did it SO fast, no way could she have gotten a reading, and she talked thru the reading, and half an hour later the blood pressure was MUCH MUCH lower than docs office nurse said. and then when I worked this disaster drill recently with county disaster preparedness.....I was shocked and horrified to be working and to realize the others working were NOT following protocols, and were NOT checking things properly at all.......scared the heck outta me. I am very much afraid people go thru the motions of doing their jobs and fake their way thru without REALLY doing their job at all..and MAYBE they do not even really know how? and how would anyone KNOW for sure? A lay person would have NO idea. So- it IS good another eye doctor is gonna check her corneas. and it is still makeing me quite angry and rankled to not be able to get any decent answer from firemen, or er about how to get this gas smell gone from her hair or how to handle these clothes? Seems to me, maybe poison control might know? or haz mat people? and seems to me the fire dept or ER should have access to find out that info------and it also seems to me it IS a "public health and safety" issue. and of course it is also an issue related to their patient. I truly horribly resent them leaveing the problem dangleing. Especially since I tried so hard to find out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 191055, member: 1697"] hmm, I am haveing difficulty posting....... I typed up this reply much earlier today.....yeah we did call posion control last nite......they are who directed us to call 911 and then later they said each area has different rules/laws etc for gas spills etc......so they told us to ask fire dept and er....... well, hopefully my reply I wrote earlier will post now. ~~~ when it rains, it POURS, of course. SUPOSED to be replacing 40+ yr old carpet, BUT this morning the hot water heater gave way. GRRR so now it is emergency replacement of THAT. and ALL the commotion involved.our hot water heater does not have a seperate shut off valve, so we have NO water for now. Grrr. Got classic coke to wash her clothes and her body and hair in and I do have um...greased lightening degreaser and also um....goop? plus a few gallons of vinegar becuz I have been useing that as a cleaner recently. FOr now the clothes and shoes are outside in the rain......"airing out" now I will wait for the rain to end and the air to dry them and will see how they smell- and will likely soak them in coke and then degreaser.....see how it goes. today we stopped at 2 diff gas stations and 2 diff auto parts stores to ask what would work well, and NONE of them had any ideas..yeesh. easy child also asked her science teacher, cuz she DID go to school today. He said "nothing" would help on her hair. <sigh> She was treated at our ER last nite......her ob gyne is her primary doctor and is also the High Risk ob gyne for our county, and for all extended area Medicaide patients, no other docs would take her, we sure tried when she first started with this hyper emesis. She has ChampVA as her primary insurance and it covers medications VERY VERY well, but most of our area docs just never want to believe how good our Rx coverage is...the zofran and phenergan are pricey......and if they would just write us a long term Rx, we could get them via medications by mail, 3 months worth- FREE to us, totally. Alas there is no website for me to access to prove to darned doctor, and darned doctor REALLY is nasty and know it all. Just like the docs etc dismissed the hyperemesis at first, and refused to take THAT seriously.....(and then turned it around and tried to later blame us for NOT being clear, after they had repeatedly accused us of dramatizing) now they are doing the same with the fainting. We are not sure if the fainting is due to hormones, blood pressure changes orthostatic? or the dramatic weight loss, or arrythmias electrolyte imbalance....or what, but er dismisses it and doctor downplays it and says it "should" pass soon. GRRR. WIC is still acting like we are makeig all this up just to be dramatic. Dr refused to keep easy child out of work any longer....even tho she fainted at work at her register it is ALL so frustrating, so ugly, so idiotic, but a new doctor is just not a possibility.....our doctor has this great reputation and is The High Risk doctor and all that etc.....so noone else will touch easy child with a 10 ft stethoscope. The good news is the hyperemesis IS backing down some FINALLY and the fainting is getting less frequent, and is usually either very early morning or late evening.....so- we are not sure if the gas itself caused this, or if she even did faint at the gas station......and- I had no idea she was GOING to the gas station, - I had been doing her driving etc and getting the gas etc. The car is a Jeep with a soft top, and when it was brand new we had severe vandalism issues here related to difficult child and her sped class......and 3 times in 1 week the top - all sides and back got slashed to shreds. Ins paid on it once, but the next times the polie did not properly do the incident report and ins refused to cover it and when the perp was brought to court, becuz the police did not properly do the paperwork, judge refused to order restitution, so --the jeep has no side or back windows--------it is completely open to elements most of the time. - which means it CAN air out, LOL.......but will it air out? I will try the vinegar and also charcoal.....see how it works. I was shocked at the amount of gasoline everywhere. ALl I know for sure is she had the pump in her gas tank and it was going, filling her tank up- yes, on the mechanism that keeps it going even if you are not holding the hose? And then the hose was in her face spraying her full on in her face, and then somehow in her car etc, too? She is not even sure how it did get shut off finally. The gas station is in town here, one block from county police headquarters, right here a couple blocks from home, small town.....same gas station we have used for all 3 of our cars for 20 years. It is not a super busy one, not a very large one, and it is not isolated at all. 2 islands of pumps and a mini mart inside. surrounded by single family houses. It was 530 in afternoon. Thank goodness she got in at an eye specialist for tomorrow morning one who I guess WILL accept her Medicaide......I am glad becuz this same ER said my sons eye was "fine" when nope- it was penetrated and destroyed and time was a huge factor in him loseing his eye.and also my best friend - they kept telling her her eye was fine.when it was full of melanoma that spread and she died. They do not have any clue what a normal eye or injured eye looks like. I SWEAR so many of the medical people in this town must fake their way thru an exam. I had said the ob gynes nurse could NOT possibly have properly checked PCs blood pressure at one office visit becuz she said it was normal and she did it SO fast, no way could she have gotten a reading, and she talked thru the reading, and half an hour later the blood pressure was MUCH MUCH lower than docs office nurse said. and then when I worked this disaster drill recently with county disaster preparedness.....I was shocked and horrified to be working and to realize the others working were NOT following protocols, and were NOT checking things properly at all.......scared the heck outta me. I am very much afraid people go thru the motions of doing their jobs and fake their way thru without REALLY doing their job at all..and MAYBE they do not even really know how? and how would anyone KNOW for sure? A lay person would have NO idea. So- it IS good another eye doctor is gonna check her corneas. and it is still makeing me quite angry and rankled to not be able to get any decent answer from firemen, or er about how to get this gas smell gone from her hair or how to handle these clothes? Seems to me, maybe poison control might know? or haz mat people? and seems to me the fire dept or ER should have access to find out that info------and it also seems to me it IS a "public health and safety" issue. and of course it is also an issue related to their patient. I truly horribly resent them leaveing the problem dangleing. Especially since I tried so hard to find out. [/QUOTE]
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