Last night was a nightmare. At around 10pm I was resting when a small scab on the right side started bleeding, half an hour later my mouth was filled with blood that I was swallowing and trying to spit up. I looked down my throat and there was a pretty big blood clot that I could feel. I felt a lot of pressure and the blood was coating my mouth. I called my brother who rushed me to the ER, my parents were 4 hours away and I was rushed to triage. Still spitting up blood. They did blood work, a doctor looked and tried to contact the ENT surgeon who was on vacation. I overheard the doctor on the phone saying that the ENT surgeon takes blood clots very seriously and that we would have to call another hospital and speak to their ENT. The nurses called the other hospital and were informed that that hospital doesn't take 'out of hospital' calls and they would not speak with us. The doctor came back and apologized...I asked him many questions, he said he was not specialized enough to answer my questions, and that no doctor at that hospital was certified to deal with my condition... He gave me two options...I could stay at that hospital overnight to be monitored, and hope that the bleeding does not return, I would be transferred to the other hospital but would still not get seen that night. The bleeding seemed to have went away...apparently I swallowed the clot...eww. So I chose option 3 I decided to go home and wait it out. I asked the doctor what he suggested and he told me that he could not answer that. He apologized for what he called the "horrible care".
The bleeding continued slightly, but the area where the clot had been scabbed over with a dark brown scab which slowly turned white. I fell asleep by accident. When I woke up the red scab was gone, the area was white and there was no more bleeding. I think I'm in the safe zone...But I keep checking that area just to be cautious.
anyways today I ate soft bread, only the right side hurts but the pain is being minimized with the pain pills. I've been icing it a bit and taking extra stregnth advil and a percocet.
The bleeding continued slightly, but the area where the clot had been scabbed over with a dark brown scab which slowly turned white. I fell asleep by accident. When I woke up the red scab was gone, the area was white and there was no more bleeding. I think I'm in the safe zone...But I keep checking that area just to be cautious.
anyways today I ate soft bread, only the right side hurts but the pain is being minimized with the pain pills. I've been icing it a bit and taking extra stregnth advil and a percocet.