Ummm, call Daddy?! That astonished me! Shelby is experiencing kidney failure and/or rejection, and she doesn't call an ambulance first?!
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I don't think Shelby knew she was experiencing kidney failure/rejection, she just knew something was wrong and was wasn't feeling right. Sometimes a life or death emergency is not always obvious to the person experiencing it, at least not right away. Even serious things can have vague symptoms at first that can be attributed to a number of things, especially when you have numerous health problems like diabetes. In all likelihood, Shelby just started feeling very dizzy and wasn't sure exactly what was causing it, she may not have known just how serious her condition was.
shareWell she definitely had a big jolt of pain when she tried to lift the baby and nearly collapsed. And she appeared to have a small jolt earlier in the hospital. She was a nurse and I'm sure her doctors warned her about what to expect if her body began rejecting the kidney. If she HADN'T had a kidney transplant, I could understand her not knowing what could be causing her symptoms.
A mother of a friend of mine had a heart transplant when she was about 35 and she got a laundry list of instructions on how to recognize it if something began to go wrong.
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Just a minor clarification: kidney transplants are not the same as heart transplants. A rejecting kidney won't kill you in such a short amount of time as Shelby apparently had. Whatever happened to Shelby, it wasn't just that her kidney was rejecting. She could have lived days to weeks like that. What happened to her was something much more sinister. Diabetic coma? Ruptured blood vessel? We aren't exactly told what it was, but it was something that snagged her quick-like. And kidney failure just does kill THAT fast.
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I'm more annoyed by the fact that while still on the porch, she mentions starting dinner, never makes it in, but Jackson finds water boiling on the stove and an open 'fridge.
Did the kid to it?
Did she leave the door open to sit on the porch?
Define "opinion" then get back to me.
Well, she started the water boiling, but the baby could have opened the fridge.
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"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
I thought the same thing honestly why she didn't call 911 first. She had to have some idea of what was happening to her
shareIn spite of how much information is out there about the symptoms of heart attack and stroke during onset, lots of people who are suffering from either affliction barely make it to the hospital in time because they don't recognize the symptoms when they compare it to what they are experiencing themselves. I was sent to the emergency once suffering what seemed to be some kind of heart ailment but in actuality was an anxiety attack. Fooled even the paramedics.
Why should the onset of kidney failure not be also mistaken for something else?
I think lost of people feel something that isn't right is happening to them, but the impulse to think "Ah, no way" is stronger than the one that says "I might be in trouble here." Nobody wants to be told their stroke is a migraine or their heart attack was indigestion. I know I felt like an idiot being told nothing was wrong with my heart, but here take 2 ativan. My RN (and non-smoking) aunt wrote off a cough she had for years, until someone convinced her that it didn't sound like an asthma or sinusitis induced cough, and of course by then that nothing cough was stage 4 lung cancer. She should definitely have known better, she worked with cancer patients, but she couldn't make herself believe it. Had she checked it out when the cough first presented itself, she might be alive today.
I understand that kidney pain can also present as a lower back spasm, although I don't know that from any kind of personal experience. I can understand someone in the medical field underestimating what they felt.
EXCEPT!!! She'd been on dialysis for years, and lost her kidney function enough to require a kidney transplant. She wasn't an excited person having their first panic attack. (I had my first panic attack ten years ago, and yes it DOES look like and feel like a heart attack... BUT Shelby should have known better) She was extremely high risk after her DM problems and renal transplant. Let's call Daddy, jeez, she didn['t care about her life, or her parents coddled her so much she never thought about her longterm health.
sharethe baby's dad, not Drum.
and as someone with hypoglycæmia(a step away from diabetes), when it starts to hit you, you dont feel or think straight. i had a service dog who alerted to my problem, and would force me to a safe place to sit, or take me to a check out counter if we were in Walmart, knowing i would take the hint and get a snack and drink. one time it hit me really hard, and i was going to go find my husband while we were shopping, and Anja, my service dog, knew i couldnt make it, and sat down, unmoveable. when i pulled on her harness, she moved in front of me, blocking me from walking. (she was good at locating my family by scent, even in a store that big, so she knew he was no where nearby). i was getting really shaky by then, and she took over, and dragged me to a bench, where i almost fell down on it. after resting, i could think a little more clearly, and took glucose tabs i kept in her backpack, and felt better, but not well enough to go anywhere. my husband helped me out to the car, when he got to the checkout, and we went to Spangles to eat. but that incident shows me a bit of how Shelby felt, from her diabetes.
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Sounds like an amazing dog!
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she was...and i miss her so much. it was this month, last year, that i lost her to cancer. this is my Webshots page,
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with albums of our family's service dogs. Anja Yem Ankerhaus was her registered name, but she had so many pet names-but Anja Granada the Great fit her best. my poor girl, i miss her so much, and my health is such that im unlikely to ever be able to train another service dog.
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Agreed! I was just astounded by the idea of being able to train a dog to respond to such a subtle thing. How does the dog know what's happening? I realize the dog isn't thinking, "She looks dizzy. Better have a nice sit," but there is something the dog is picking up on. And then finding a bench? It's just so cool!
shareJust a note--back in the 80s, 911 was not the reliable service that it is today. You could call and get an operator in the next state, which could lead to some ugly delays in getting help. When I worked on an ambulance, we used to tell people to call our dispatcher directly if they had an emergency. Obviously, that's changed.
Realistically, Shelby should have had the local ambulance or her doctor's number memorized and written down next to the phone, but a lot of people back then would call a friend or family before they'd call EMS.
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As another point, she might not have trusted herself to give accurate, good calm information to the emergency services, so calling a relative who could keep a cool head might help.
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So much didn't play out right. She appeared to be living in a separate township, and had just had a kidney transplant. If that was my daughter, and considering she had the means with Jackson being a lawyer and all, I and my entire family would have insisted on a live-in Nanny, especially since Shelby was still working at the hospital (who was taking care of Jack JR at that time?) When people don't understand medicine and decide to write a screenplay they just get ALOT wrong. And we see that scene where she almost passes out at the hospital when ready to leave work??? wth? She's had a kidney transplant and she having some funky symptoms yet says NOTHING???? Shelby was just a very stupid and selfish young woman.
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