A Day At The Hospital

Today has been a long, rough day for the whole family.  When I arrived at the hospital when I got off work the AM his dad started crying.  He was so pitiful.  He said his mouth was hurting, so I swabbed it out for him.  The nurse came in and told us what to expect today.  Luckily he was on the floor I used to work on, so I knew the nurse.  They were going to run several test and then move him to a stroke certified floor.  The first thing they did was send him for the MRI.  They had to send him via ambulance across town because he is too broad to fit in the machine at the hospital.  When he got back from the MRI, they sent him to the Cath Lab for a TEE.  The heart doctor wanted to look behind his heart to make sure everything was OK.  He was put to sleep in order to do this & they had a hard time getting him woke back up.  The heart doctor said his heart looked good.  Once they got him woke up enough to go back to his room, they transferred him to his new room.  He was hungry & ready for something to eat, but had to wait for speech therapy to evaluate him to see if it was safe for him to eat.  He finally got something to eat & drink.  We wanted to see his neurologist to see what his thoughts were on the stroke, results of MRI and what the plan was going to be.  Unfortunately his neurologist wasn't on call this weekend so he seen the doctor that admitted him.  He couldn't tell us much more then we already knew.  He couldn't get the MRI pulled up, so we will have to wait until tomorrow to know anything more.  By this time he had a lot of company coming in and out.  Bobby's cousin & his wife came down to see him & wanted to take us out to eat.  We hadn't had anything to eat all day except a little snack, so we took them up on the offer.  We headed to Shogun's to eat.  After we ate we headed back to the hospital before we headed home to get some clothes.  Bobby wanted to be close to his dad, so we got clothes and went to mom's to stay.  We got back to BG around 12:30 AM.  We were both wore out & exhausted.  Bobby had been up for almost 46 hours (he had a few cat naps) and I had been up for almost 40 hours.  We both crashed!