Yesterday was April Fool's Day, And this was no Joke. I'm going to do this blog different since some of you are early risers and may look at it while I'm typing and see nothing new since Sat. So, every paragraph or so I'm going to publish it so you know it is currently changing. And you will know to come back in 10 minutes for more of the story.
Sat. morning I was feeling better, waiting on the Dr's call back from the Hospital. Now I want to say, this is not really a complaint about the hospital as I'm sure they are busy, but most of you know I can get impatient and just go what I want. "Katie bar the doors. Here he comes. "
My wife had to work on Sat. afternoon, and while she was gone, I had terrible shakes, I could look down the comforter and see it shaking while under it. My temp. was back up. Now a resident from the hospital had called late Friday night, remember, but on Sat. nobody else tried to call me that I knew from Dr. House's office. I should say if I didn't, Dr. House took his family to Walt Disney World for a vacation so he was out of town. Isn't that the way it always works out.
Someone had tried to call and the phone cell phone rang only 2 times and stopped. The phone number was from NY state, so I thought was it was a wrong number call and they hung. End of story.
Later, I was looking at the phone again and noticed that the phone number was the same one that had been used on Friday night, so now I assumed they had transferred from NY to Indy. I tried to call the number back and left a message. That nobody with liver knowledge had called me back. By now the wife had returned and was concerned because of the shakes and temp. spiking from normal to 102 and return to normal again, on a repeating basis.
Well, I started putting clothes on, and getting ready to leave the house, because we needed answers and if they couldn't get back, then we would go to them. So we left for the hospital. I tried to call the NY # again just to give them a little warning of what we were doing, but the mailbox was full, couldn't even leave a msg.
So, this is still Sat. and I wasn't going to wait another 24 hours. At first we were going to go to the emergency room and just wait thru the turmoil, asking for a Liver Specialist. This was not a broken bone or something like that. Then, while the wife was driving, my mind was running other scenarios thru. We ended up, going straight up to 3 Surgical, which was was I had been cared for during my stay in the hospital and the chance might arise that I would know the nurses and I could get quicker care and answers.
Well, that won't, there was a Dr. House asst. right there on the floor. who we had met before, and sat us down in the visitors waiting room to talk thru what was going on. But, I had put them in a position where I was not a registered patient of the hospital and they couldn't order any blood work or any tests. But, I left there with a prescription for a strong antibiotic, and some info, and all the right phone numbers. I went back home for another day, everybody hoping that the antibiotic would do the trick. SO AS THEY SAY don't try this at home, but I got what I wanted in that given situation.
Got back to Lebanon, and all pharmacies had closed at 6PM, it was now around 7:15, I'm talking CVS, Walgreens, Kroger, all open, but no pharmacy. The local pharmacy which we always use, we called the owners home phone number, and the person on call for emergency's was at a wedding reception in Indy. We finally got the pills and I took one at 11:45, now I had felt good after returning from the hospital, and actually ate a slice of home made pizza that tasted good. The only food I had even thought about eating since Weds. night. I was drinking Boost and Powerade since Thurs, morning.
At 2AM I threw it all up. Since I had only taken the antibiotic 2 hours before I thought about re taking it, but the wife convince me that it had already been absorbed into my system. Starting at that time I started taking my temp. again. it was 101.
At 3AM it was 101.5, at 345 it was 101.4, I then decided after reading the antibiotic label, that I was supposed to take 1 pill every 12 hours, so I figured not very much would happen in 2 hours before I had thrown it up last night. So I took another one. At 5AM temp. was 101.5, 7AM it was 100.3, and @ 9AM back to 99.3.
But, at 11 AM it was back to 102. and we started making calls to the hospital and this time the system worked. To be safe, they wanted to see me, come to 3 Surgical, they would register me and keep me overnight for tests and observations. So I'm back in the hospital. It is now Monday morning and I felt like I had to update you all.
As soon as I was in the hospital bed, they were drawing all kinds of blood cultures, blood test, urine tests, it went on and on, and I didn't want to impede all this activity so I didn't try to blog yesterday, sorry.
I was low on magnesium, first and only result so far of testing, so I'm now hooked to that and have been taking nutrients and antibiotic all night. For some reason, since midnight I've been on a nothing by mouth routine, in case more tests are needed, that have not yet been scheduled. It is now 7 AM and kind of waiting on some Dr, Resident or somebody from Dr. House's office to advise us.
Sorry this has been so long, but, the Drs. just came by and now I can add more.
After all the tests, the bile shows some bacteria in it, and that causes the liver to struggle and the feelings I've been going thru. They have contacted Dr. House thru email and we are going to try another antibiotic pill, if I can hold it down without problems, I will be going home soon. I have ordered a fruit cup, and a V8 for breakfast, and a Boost as back up.
So now we are all up to date, nothing serious, cause we listened to our body and nipped it in the bud.
Thanks for all your prayers even though you didn't know the details, God Bless you all, Captain
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