by Karen Creamer | Dec 23, 2020 | health
When I got to the ER, the irregular heart rhythm had stopped but my blood pressure was very high.
Impressively high. Higher than I have ever seen in real life.
I am an overachiever. 🙂
My question was: Why was it so high?
I was questioned and johnny’d and hooked up to monitors and IV’d and tested by the staff and hours (many, many hours) later, we had a potential answer:
Electrolyte imbalance: low potassium level.
Whew! Now that the cause was known, it could be corrected and I would be fine, right?
I was given potassium 40 mEq to take in the ER to begin to correct the imbalance. Potassium 40 mEq was delivered as two giant 20 mEq pills. I have given them to others many times but this was the first time I had to choke them down myself. The pill starts to dissolve almost as soon as you put it in your mouth, and forms a chalky mass that is no fun at all to try to swallow. At one point I had to decide whether to keep trying to get it to go down or try to regurgitate it and start over. There was a second round of this to take after I got home, but the nurse asked (thank you, thank you) for it to be dispensed as four coated 10mEq tablets (which turned out to be infinitely easier to swallow). Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Dec 20, 2020 | Clarity, health
I see almost never go to the doctor or to the hospital.
Until I last month, when I suddenly did.
I had been asleep for a few hours when I awoke with a pounding heart. It was a uncomfortable, but I wasn’t too worried.
At first.
I got up and went into the bathroom, shutting the door quietly so as not to wake up my husband. I put the light on and waited in vain for it to stop. The pounding continued, twice as fast as my heart should be beating. I took some deep breaths, trying to be calm, still waiting for it to stop.
It didn’t.
Eventually, I realized that I needed help. I woke up my husband.
The last time I had to wake my husband up in the middle of the night to take me to the hospital was when I was pregnant with my second child and my water broke. This occasion wasn’t anything as great as that, but my husband was every bit as heroic. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Sep 13, 2020 | Being BRAVE, health
Lately, when I’ve been going to medical or dental appointments, I am being confronted with a demand to ‘Just check your temperature real quick’ … as if this is not an invasion of my privacy. As if this is a mandate rather than a request to perform a medical intervention on me. Sometimes it is not even a medical professional aiming that device at my face, between my eyes.
Why question this?
Anytime anyone tells you they are going to do something to your physical body rather than asks your permission, all the red flags should start waving. All the alarms should begin to go off in you mind. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Aug 2, 2020 | Being BRAVE, Clarity, Connection, education, health, no fear, Someone's gotta say it
I decided to treat you all to some stream of consciousness thoughts I had this evening.
I was thinking about how so much of what I was taught in school turned out not to be true. Actually, this is an understatement, because not only was this information not true, it was in fact the opposite of truth.
I began thinking about Fauci (I am sure you have heard of him. If not, turn on any mainstream news channel and you probably hear his name and opinions ad nauseum). Fauci, in my view, is doing his best to ruin our country. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Jun 2, 2020 | Being BRAVE, Clarity, Connection, health, no fear, Pharma
I have figured out how to listen to the local and national news broadcasts, most of the local and national politicians, and have it make sense.
You see, I have been wondering for weeks, months, years, why so much of what I saw and heard was happening in the world just didn’t make sense to me. Why does the government get to just take so much of the money that I’ve made over the entire course of my working years? If I just took money from others it would be called ‘stealing’. When the money was taken from me via my paycheck it was called ‘taxes’. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | May 25, 2020 | #getoutside, Being BRAVE, Clarity, Connection, education, health, Holistic Healing, no fear
It’s not your fault if you are afraid.
Everything you have experienced in your life up to this point has was designed to make you feel this way. Powerless. Scared. Maybe even despairing. Hiding in your home. Afraid to go out. Afraid to go to work.
Or, maybe you are one of the people who has decided to rat out your fellow citizens. To spy on them and tell on them. Your friends and neighbors. People you used to like, maybe. You are doing this in the name of “the greater good”, feeling virtuous because you think you are keeping everyone “safe”. You’ll show them. Keep reading
Karen Creamer
