Thalia
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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So they did and it didn't work. I was able to get fluids in, but they couldn't draw blood out of it. Oh my God. It was like a sick joke. I was so ready to be done. And I had a PICC line or a midline or whatever they're called in this arm.
I was able to get my antibiotics through it, but they installed it specifically to drop blood because they were having so much trouble sending all these people in trying to get it out of me and they just couldn't. Maybe you didn't have any blood.
What if someone came in with like a pocket knife at some point and a cup and they're like, listen, we're just going to have to cut.
Honestly, it probably would have been less painful than what I'd already experienced anyway. I didn't fully process how sick I was even until like a year later. I had no idea that I was dying and my organs were failing me. Scary. My infection continued after I got out of the hospital. It was not gone.
It was to a point where it was like manageable and that I would just have to do a couple weeks of IV therapy, daily antibiotics for, I want to say like two to three weeks. I missed the beginning of my senior year. So I got to go home, but because of licensing issues across state lines, they couldn't authorize any doctor to administer my IV antibiotics to me.
They had to get a home health care nurse to come teach me how to do my own IV. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got to do this, too. And then I taught my girls how to do it, how to flush the line, put in the first thing. It became a little thing they would do.
Yeah, I mean, I played doctor for a couple weeks. It was cool. I remember saline, blood thinner, antibiotics, saline again, close it up, clean it, do it again the next day. I was immunocompromised as well because I was so sick. So I couldn't go anywhere.
Did you lose a bunch of weight?
I did. I lost so much weight. It's funny because when I showed up at my sorority photo shoot, my belly was like humongous because it was so... Inflamed. Destroyed and inflamed and sick.
It was summer too, so you could see the shape of my body. I'm 4'11". I'm a pretty small girl. So someone had told me that I was like looking thick and I was like, that is an insane thing to say, but I'm going to ignore that. That is an insane thing to say. I look back at it and I look at photos from that time and I'm like, I can't believe my appendix was just ruptured in this photo.
It was ruptured for four days while I was just walking around. You're so lucky. I know. I don't know how I managed.
I want there to be some kind of contest you can enter. It's a pain threshold contest. Like maybe you could be a world champion.
Some of these Japanese game shows, do you ever see these, Monica, where it's like they torture people? No, I have not. You know these game shows? Maybe that could be. You could endure like some...
I feel like I've won the contest by like being here. Yeah, by living. Being here and being on the podcast as well. This is so exciting. So I'm like, oh, if that didn't happen, then I guess I wouldn't be here. So yippee for me.
Maybe Nick's listening too. Let's hope Nick's listening.
I hope he's not a listener. He's a dick. I hope he's out there. I hope his name is Nick. I don't know if that is. I feel like it was. So I wrote in for the near-death prompt. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you for sharing that very harrowing story.
Yes. Nice meeting you, Thalia. Tell your mom we really like the name and she did well.
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