Category Archives: IV Infusion

One more misleading article

Posted on August 30, 2017 by adventurant

I have sent off angry emails yet again to another Author and Editor of an article that was published where Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome was confused with Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. I know that part of being a doctor is to try … Continue reading →

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What has been consuming my time?

Posted on March 18, 2016 by adventurant

As Chewy is on day two of abdominal pain (Abdominal Migraine) with Nausea.. that later today morphed into a migraine.. the stress came in like a tsunami crashing into a foreign shore. We all knew it was out there. That the … Continue reading →

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Slow Descent

Posted on February 26, 2016 by adventurant

That brings us to the daily maintaining as we slowly descend and come off our medication of choice, the DHE. Continue reading →

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Hitting Close to Home

Posted on January 19, 2016 by adventurant

I participated in a group support phone call the other day where the recurring theme of how to be treated better in the ER came up.. Repeatedly. This isn’t new to us, when describing the ER or doctors in general. … Continue reading →

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A letter to our old School

Posted on November 25, 2015 by adventurant

Chronically ill students are more than their illnesses Continue reading →

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Random Ponderings

Posted on September 29, 2015 by adventurant

That is where it gets scary, as a parent. The place that you take your kid that should know how to help your kid.. Doesn’t. Continue reading →

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Our cyclic saga continues

Posted on October 16, 2013 by adventurant

So our saga continues. This is how we spend a good majority of our time now. Sitting in an infusion center. This although inconvenient.. Keeps him out of the hospital emergency room. Since we are in the learning phase still … Continue reading →

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Adventures in parenting a CVSr

Posted on October 3, 2013 by adventurant

So obviously we have started another episode of Cyclic Vomiting. We have all sorts of adventures with this. First, our main doctor is two hours away. So before we freak out that it is once again another episode we wait … Continue reading →

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