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Discovery

Posted By: mt2 on 2005-08-09
In Reply to: Did Discovery land safely? - curious

Landed in California without any problems.


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Did Discovery land safely?
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Discovery Health Channel has a show Sat and Sun a.m.
that are good for CECs if you watch the show then take a test on line on the website.  I have a bunch of them recorded but haven't watched them yet, too busy!  I may disagree with how the organization formerly known as AAMT is doing things, but I am proud to be a CMT and aim to stay that way!
Anyone catch Discovery Health Channel last night?
I always watch the Plastic Surgery epidoses with Dr. Jan Adams who narrates the different procedures profiled.  Anyhow, he was explaining how some patients are more susceptible to keloid formation, and in the subheadings where they type these words, they had it as "keyloid"  It just struck me as funny, being a medical show and all!
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Wow, on Discovery Channel - Preg woman delivering suffers leak of amniotic fluid into mom's

mom having an allergic/anaphylactic reaction.


Heart can't push the goo through.


Body went into shock.


She couldn't breathe.


Her blood began to clot.


Docs did emergency C-section in 6 minutes.


Then mom went to cardiac arrest.


Then another catastrophic thing happened.


Paula began hemorrhaging massively from every part of her body....from eyes, ears, nose, every incision, every bump and bruise.  All her blood clotting factors had been used up.


Docs poured blood clotting factors into her.


The baby's chances of survival were at 50/50. 


Mom was then noted to have unusual swelling in upper abdomen.


Surgeons reopened c-section.


Astonished to find 1 gal of clot-filled blood.  With the clots removed, her blood quit clotting.


Of the 10% of women who survive, most are brain-damaged. Only 1% survive without any damage.  She turned out to be in the 1% luckily.


A day later she was holding her baby and was OK.


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All this started with her first labor pain of her second child.  It was the leak of the amniotic fluid into her blood stream that caused her to immediately start to feel like her throat was "closing up" and she couldn't breathe (anaphylactic allergic reaction).  She passed out pretty quickly.