Sunday, June 18, 2006
He has been since last- wednesday? Or thursday? cain't amember. Anyway, the upshot is this. Since he has 2 artificial heart valves, his blood has to be thinned so it doesn't clot on the valves (if it clots, the clots break loose and block blood to some important organ like the heart, brain, lungs, etc etc etc). So when his blood gets to thick he also has to get injections instead of just eating rat poison (coumadin/Warfarin is essentially rat poison). But these injections always continue blooding under the skin after he gets them and they are horribly painful and end up being like large potato size lumps under his belly skin. Ick.
This time he had an allergic reaction (his breathign was heavy and he got had to toe hives that itched horribly). He was taking 50 mgs of benadryl q4h (every 4 hours) and i had to coat him with calamine lotion and he STILL scratched in his sleep- when he could sleep.
And the lumps in his abdomen were getting worse.
FInally he was checked into the hospital and they had to decide what to do because one of the lumps had developed a head on it like a HUGE fucking boil and they didn't want it bursting because that would be WORSE. So yesterday they opened the skin on the worst one and pulled out all these slug-size blood clots. Total amount- like 2 golf-balls. The other side they just pierced with needles so it could drain (tho how blood clots as thick as jelly are supposed to drain, I dunno).
This has been going on for a couple weeks and he's going to be in the hospital for maybe another week. I ain't sleeping worth a damn, spending as much time at the hospital with him, and trying not to think about things when I am back at the assisted living center.
Life.
Anne
This time he had an allergic reaction (his breathign was heavy and he got had to toe hives that itched horribly). He was taking 50 mgs of benadryl q4h (every 4 hours) and i had to coat him with calamine lotion and he STILL scratched in his sleep- when he could sleep.
And the lumps in his abdomen were getting worse.
FInally he was checked into the hospital and they had to decide what to do because one of the lumps had developed a head on it like a HUGE fucking boil and they didn't want it bursting because that would be WORSE. So yesterday they opened the skin on the worst one and pulled out all these slug-size blood clots. Total amount- like 2 golf-balls. The other side they just pierced with needles so it could drain (tho how blood clots as thick as jelly are supposed to drain, I dunno).
This has been going on for a couple weeks and he's going to be in the hospital for maybe another week. I ain't sleeping worth a damn, spending as much time at the hospital with him, and trying not to think about things when I am back at the assisted living center.
Life.
Anne
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