Bad news about dh..
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| Mon, 05-23-2005 - 12:52pm |
Hi All,
Just when I thought that things were starting to get better.
Dh just got home and went to the Dr today. He has another spot in his nose that is bleeding and he has to go back the specialist.
Its in a different spot then the one that they cauterized. H may need surgery now.
I really can't take this anymore. Both my Boys are sick, I'm sick and now this with dh.
I just wish that things would settle down for a while...
For those who don't know what happened with dh's nose her is part of an old post...Heather
About his nose, to those who don't know...
geeze it was about 6 weeks ago I had gone to work and get a call that my dh was being taken by ambulance to the hospital, my best friend who works with me was the one who tokk that call.
I ran to the car and started to make calls as I was driving to find out what was going on, called dh's cell phone and my kids answered. I didn;t understand at all what was going on, finally I got my mom on the phone who was on another phone with 911.
Dh got a bloody nose that wouldn't stop ( I should say that I knew it was serious because ch is SO layed back and doesn't like hospitials or anything) anyway the ambulance wansn;t there yet and Jay was outside with the police waiting. My neighor had come over to take the Boys,
SO I was heading home to try to get there so he didn't have to be alone in the ambulance. As I was almost there I heard the sirens so I missed it. I got the the hospital parked in a no parking zone (didn't care) and ran in.
One of my friends was alredy there who lives close to the hospital.
I got in to see him and he was bleeding so bad he was bleeding into a bucket it was seriously like a focet, I have never seen anything like that before.
He was crying and his blood pressure was through the roof, it was dangerously high.
The tried to find out where the bleeing was coming from and they couldn't, I called my father in law and told him that he needed to get the ASAP. I really thought that dh was going to die, I honestly did. I was preparing myself for him to die in front of me. What an awful feeling.
In the end they decided to put in a nasal packing in his nose.. it a 4 inch tube that the shove in to put pressure in the nose. I staying in the room and as he started I heard my dh yell in pain that I have never heard anyone do before, I stepped out. I thought I was going to pass out, he was in so much pain and I couldn't bear to watch it. Of course now I can't forgive myself for leaving the room and not being there for him.
We went home and he was to see the specialist the following week, this was on a friday.
he cried in pain all night and I brought him back to the ER, the gave him vicitin and said that he had the start of an infection. Well he told them what he was allergic to and when i got the antibiotic from the pharmacy I read the instructions and he is highly allergic to what they gave him, I was FURIOUS. The pain meds made him sleep so that was good.
In the meantime that sunday I couldn;t stop vomiting and my stomach hurt. I went to the ER, I thought it was my diverticulosis. It turned out to be stress or a bug.
That monday I was still sick but I took him to the ENT Dr.
He wanted to leave the nasal packing for 2 more days to make sure. So in 2 more day we went bac, when they took it out dh passed out from pain. Thank God my Mom was there also.
In the end the cauterized a large portion of his nose, all it was was a stupid blood vessel in his nose that broke.
Since then he has had some blood and had to wear cotton with neosporin in his nose for a few weeks..
4 weeks ago he was going away and the night before we changed his cotton and their was blood, that night I woke up with my 1st panic attack ever. The stress of him leaving and having some blood triggered it.

Geez, Heather, sorry to hear about this! How awful for all of you. They say when it rains, it pours, and that sounds like what's going on for you. Hang in there. You're such a great source of support for so many of us on the board, especially since you are a newbie with anxiety. I hope we can help you as much as you've helped us! Let me know how his appointment goes!
Sheri Ann
Sheri Ann
Hi-I'm just a lurker but had to post. My ex had the same problem. Make sure your husband isn't taking any aspirin products-these will thin the blood and thus increase bleeding. Some herbal supplements like Ginseng will also thin out the blood.
Sometimes a drug like xanax can help calm down the bleeder and decrease blood pressure.
Allergies can irritate the nasal membranes-an anti histamine might help.
If they plan to pack his nose again in the ER ask them to numb it first. Theres a numbing agent that can be applied to the inside of the nose-and they are supposed to do that first-believe me-my ex screamed the first time and he was also a "nose faucet" that day.
Good Luck!
Annie
HI-yup,I get depression and anxiety too.