August 9, 2008

• POP AND THE EMERGENCY ROOM

  The last several days, the output of Pop’s right kidney (he has a catheter directly into his kidney that drains out into a bag) has been getting darker. He didn’t seemed worried about it so I didn’t worry. But this morning I looked at it and I was sure he had blood in it. He did say it looked darker than it had. Sooooo…..

  We called my daughter and she called the doctor and talked to the nurse. It had been 2 weeks since he had the catheter put in his kidney and the nurse thought we should have it checked out.. So that meant a trip to the ER.

  My son Mart was visiting (he is working for Choice Books and when he is in Idaho he stops in, when he is in the area.) He had left on his route, so my daughter met us at the hospital. Mart happened to be working at a store close to the hospital, so till we got there, Mart was there, too.

  11:50 am - We went in, did the necessary paper work and was shown to a room. Room #7

  Mart went on because there wasn‘t anything to do at the hospital but wait..

  The wait begin…..

  12:20pm - The nurse came in and took his blood pressure 185/90. His Temp was 98.5.

  12:50 pm - .Pop was getting restless. We told him to calm down the doctor was probably busy. He thought about it and calmed down. They had him take his shirt off but leave his jeans on. They gave him a gown to put on instead of his shirt, so he wouldn’t get cold.

  1:10 pm - The ER Doctor came in, talked to him, said they would take a sample, and be back with the results. Somewhere between noon and 1:30pm they looked up his blood work, which he had done yesterday, so they could get the results before his next procedure, next Wednesday. His creatinine level was 3.0 which was good, for him

  1:50 pm - he said “a person could be dead by now” He got out of bed, went out in the hall, found a nurse, and the poor nurse apologized all over, Said that is was fine that Pop came out and got him. Pop came in and got back in bed. The nurse came in and took some more information, a urine sample, and departed.

  2pm - Pop was getting hungry by that time sooooo… He got out of bed, went out in the hall and asked the nurse if he could get something to eat. The nurse said “Sure my friend I’ll get you something right away, thanks for asking me” Pop came back in, got into bed, looked at me and said “you better get and walk around a little bit, you have sat quite awhile by now” So I obediently got up, walked around his bed and sat back down.

  2:30 pm The food arrived. It looked good and Pop did eat (I ate half of it, because he said it was too much for him.) Valerie had went after something for her and myself.

  2:50 - Pop put on his shirt and said he was going home. After Pop got dressed, he went out into the hall. Valerie and I still sat in our chairs, We could hear Pop talking to the nurse. “Hey, I’ve waited for 3 hours and I’m not dead. So I might as well go home and wait for the results there.” the nurse answered “We don’t want you to leave, my friend, the doctor will be here in about ½ hour."

  3:30 the doctor arrived and said Pop had an infection, he would give an antibiotic, and Pop could go home. We stopped at K-Mart left off the prescription and went home.

  Pop went back later for the pills (a good thing we only live 2 miles form K-Mart)

  So it was another long day, but I am thankful we caught it this time before it got worse, at least he didn’t have to stay in overnight this time.

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  I was surfing the blog world last night and it didn’t take me long to realize that my troubles were small. There is so much heartbreak and pain out there. I feel frustrated because I can’t do much about it, although your encouraging comments have done a lot for me, so I try to pass it on. It helps so much when one believes in God, He gives peace and comfort like nothing else can and when other Christian friends leave a word of encouragement, it make warm circles go around my heart. I don’t know how a person make it without God and Christian friends. There is a song that I listened to just last night and the ending phrase is “Thank God for my Christian friends” And, I AGREE, whole heartedly.

  I love you all, “good night”

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