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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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OMG....Bobbie, Yes What a Blessing...always encouraging when a doctor does his or her job and saves a life!
I'm so glad she did that. It's so easy for them to get so busy that they just don't listen to that niggling little voice. You guys were lucky...and she sounds like a really good doctor!
Kat
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