VTXDave
Well-Known Member
I only hang in this forum, so I'm putting it here...
Two days ago I come home for lunch. My wife is at the answering machine listening to a message from my mom. She turns to me and says "This is the 2nd message 15 minutes apart and she says she's having a medical emergency! You need to call her!"...
I waste no time and dial. She answers and I immediately know something is wrong. She's slurring her words badly and asked me two question entirely from left field. My mother is diabetic and I'm thinking she's on her way into a diabetic coma. I say "Mom! What the hell are you calling me for! Get off the phone now and call 911!" She agrees and hangs up.
I turn to Seamaiden and say "I'm not sure she'll call. She didn't before." Seamaiden suggests I call 911, so I do. They verify that no call has come in from her number and they've dispatched paramedics. Note that I live in CA and my mom lives in Portland, OR.
OK...I get a call back from dispatch that she's awake, not lucid, but they've got her and are taking her to the hospital. Over the past fews days they still don't know what happened, but MRI shows no stroke. We "think" that since her diabetes meds were recently changed, and they read her blood glucose at over 500 when they arrived coupled with the fact that she had low sodium and some dehydration (it's been warm in Portland I understand) may have triggered the event.
She's being released tomorrow to a rehabilitation facility for 1-2 weeks so she'll be under supervision in case of another event. My decision and she agreed.
Now today...
Seamaiden really fucked up her knee back in May and she was scheduled for surgery today. We were to arrive at the hospital at 1:30PM. At noon, she's got a full-blown migraine and is vomiting. I tell her to call and cancel. She disagrees and tells me they'll give her something and it'll be good. I disagree, but take her down anyway. As I suspected, the surgeon sees her in excruciating pain and dry heaving (no food/liquid since 9PM last night) and tells us that he will not perform the procedure with her like that and we'll need to reschedule. We spend the next 3 hours in ER while they shoot her full of anti-nausea meds and pain meds...Totally fucked.
To add insult to injury, if they reschedule her surgery for late next week, I have this...http://www.toughmudder.com
I'm registered for the 17th and had a room reserved for 2 days and was going up to Squaw Valley (NorCal) on Thursday to acclimate.
Yeah, it's been hectic.
Two days ago I come home for lunch. My wife is at the answering machine listening to a message from my mom. She turns to me and says "This is the 2nd message 15 minutes apart and she says she's having a medical emergency! You need to call her!"...
I waste no time and dial. She answers and I immediately know something is wrong. She's slurring her words badly and asked me two question entirely from left field. My mother is diabetic and I'm thinking she's on her way into a diabetic coma. I say "Mom! What the hell are you calling me for! Get off the phone now and call 911!" She agrees and hangs up.
I turn to Seamaiden and say "I'm not sure she'll call. She didn't before." Seamaiden suggests I call 911, so I do. They verify that no call has come in from her number and they've dispatched paramedics. Note that I live in CA and my mom lives in Portland, OR.
OK...I get a call back from dispatch that she's awake, not lucid, but they've got her and are taking her to the hospital. Over the past fews days they still don't know what happened, but MRI shows no stroke. We "think" that since her diabetes meds were recently changed, and they read her blood glucose at over 500 when they arrived coupled with the fact that she had low sodium and some dehydration (it's been warm in Portland I understand) may have triggered the event.
She's being released tomorrow to a rehabilitation facility for 1-2 weeks so she'll be under supervision in case of another event. My decision and she agreed.
Now today...
Seamaiden really fucked up her knee back in May and she was scheduled for surgery today. We were to arrive at the hospital at 1:30PM. At noon, she's got a full-blown migraine and is vomiting. I tell her to call and cancel. She disagrees and tells me they'll give her something and it'll be good. I disagree, but take her down anyway. As I suspected, the surgeon sees her in excruciating pain and dry heaving (no food/liquid since 9PM last night) and tells us that he will not perform the procedure with her like that and we'll need to reschedule. We spend the next 3 hours in ER while they shoot her full of anti-nausea meds and pain meds...Totally fucked.
To add insult to injury, if they reschedule her surgery for late next week, I have this...http://www.toughmudder.com
I'm registered for the 17th and had a room reserved for 2 days and was going up to Squaw Valley (NorCal) on Thursday to acclimate.
Yeah, it's been hectic.
**grin**
sorry things have been so hard for you lately. it's cool you're still keeping macho thru it all. hope you make your event. 
