We are so very blessed!

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We are so very blessed!
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Wed, 03-12-2008 - 8:49pm

Dh and I have been fighting horrible colds for the last 10-11 days since we came home from our vacation and yesterday I'd taken him to the doc and we said, "You said colds last 9-10 days and to just fight it out. Well I've gotten better but dh is looking lots worse and this is the 9th day." He admitted that dh's cold had turned into infections of about everything but his lungs. No pneumonia but eye infection, ear infection and sinus infection but thank goodness his lungs were clear. So now it was antibiotic time and a good strong cough syrup made to put hair on his chest and let him sleep for the first night in about three. I take dh home and go off and do errands and pick up the Rxs.


He takes the antibiotic on an empty stomach around 5 pm. To be fair it didn't tell him to eat first and to be fair to the drug, dh has lost 10 lbs in as many days with this cold so he wasn't eating much even when he was eating. Well about 45 minutes goes by and he is acting weird and complaining of hot flashes and is really acting downright dopey so I haul his tuckus off to the ER in case he's had some kind of reaction to the antibiotic. They decide that he really should eat before taking it but that he can probably still take it for the next 11 days like prescribed but they also draw blood and give him some respiratory treatments that made him almost have a voice again. Then the ER doc does a great thing. She pieced the facts that we'd recently come back from vacation and one blood result that was just a tad off the normal range and decides that before she sends us packing that dh should have a CT scan. We had to wait since by then traumas were coming in and are we glad that she didn't just say "Well you saw your doc today, have Rx's and will be seeing him in a week. See ya!" But she had us wait and finally around midnight he had the CT scan and sure enough what had been niggling at her was absolutely right. Dh had multiple clots in both lungs. She literally saved his life I think this morning by deciding on "one more test." Not sure I've ever been so grateful to have spent the evening in an ER with a man blowing his nose constantly. He was admitted and put on heparin (Wonderful to see that drug and China in the headlines right now...NOT!) and he is off it already today. They did an echo this afternoon. Dh fended off his dad from coming to drive us crazy and he'll be coming home before week's end getting to do those wonderful belly sticks that I had to do after my surgery with a blood thinner. Ugh! I knew he was better when I called this morning and he told me that the hospital's night shift's main reason for being is to keep people awake. Grumpy and lucid! Love it! Hugs, B

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Wed, 03-12-2008 - 9:27pm
Did he have any chest pain?

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Thu, 03-13-2008 - 1:11am

Great news, BB...hey, I'd send that doc some flowers. What a great call by her! Whew! Could have been bad!


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Thu, 03-13-2008 - 1:44am
No he wasn't complaining of any chest pain. No pain at all. In retrospect he now thinks he was probably "getting used to not using his full lungs" for a few days and it was just gradual enough and he'd been sick enough to not really notice it.-B
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Thu, 03-13-2008 - 1:47am
I took in a huge bag of goodies for the doc and staff this afternoon.-B
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Thu, 03-13-2008 - 11:59am

HI Bb


Thank heavens for a ER Dr who felt that there might be something else going on. You and your Dh are very lucky this Dr was so careful and insisted he have that CT scan.


Hopeing he feels much better soon!!


                          &n
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Thu, 03-13-2008 - 12:59pm

BB,


Thank goodness for the persistence of that doctor!

Susan siggie
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Thu, 03-13-2008 - 6:30pm

WOW what a story! you ARE blessed


and that doc is one heck of a diagnostician!! good for her!


hope he rebounds fast!


hugs

Dutch



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Thu, 03-13-2008 - 7:33pm
Great call by that Dr. Hope your dh is soon feeling and doing much better.

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Fri, 03-14-2008 - 2:12am
Bobbie, How extremely fortunate you two were that that particular doctor was on duty. Hope dh is on the mend now! Janet
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Fri, 03-14-2008 - 4:56am

BB, how awesome! Can't wait to hear
more good news!


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