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July 29th, 2009 by Echos

The Pain Worsens

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The pain got bad last night. Bad enough that it kept me awake from about midnight until dawn. I writhed in pain for hours. I was at that point where I was willing to do anything to get rid of it. I even slept cross-ways in the bed. I tried to sit up. I adjusted the temperature on the bed. Nothing relieved it. I finally fell asleep around 7am and woke up relatively pain-free. The pain is still there. I can still feel it. It’s just not as bad. At least this time around I didn’t scream and throw remote controls down behind the bed. *g*
I called my doctor today about the pain and he said there’s probably nothing he can do about it. Oh joy. I get to suffer for about ten more days while I wait for surgery and he won’t do anything for me? It’s not like I can’t have narcotics or morphine for the pain. Just a year ago, he was giving me weekly morphine injections to stop the pain I was having. Now I get this line that he ‘doesn’t know if he can do anything’ about the pain?! Yeah, right!
In other news, my older brother, Scott, is coming home for a few days next week. This should be good. He and I don’t generally get along, but we put on good acts for mom. His dad, Paul, is turning 75 next week, and he’s throwing him a small birthday party. I’ll probably post pictures. That’s what you want to see here, right? The Carrot Tops eating cake, getting fatter and wearing silly hats.

July 24th, 2009 by Echos

Hospital Pictures

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These are some pictures I took last night and today during my adventure to the hospital. I was in the ED with a male roommate. I didn’t think that was legal, but until I needed x-rays and had to pull up my shirt to have heart tests done, I didn’t think anything of it. It seems everyone decided to stab, shoot and beat each other with blunt objects last night, so they were doubling up the ED rooms.
The med student and my doctor:

They took forever getting me up to a room. I was wheeled around the ED, taken to CT, given chest x-rays, and several other tests. I noted that the janitor on that floor looked like the Son of Sam killer. Matt giggled. Come 2am, Matt made the remark there was no one there except “us and the serial killer”. He later told me when he left to charge my phone and take care of things here, ‘the serial killer’ came out right behind him. We had a good laugh about that.
The next morning..
The long and winding hallway:

A better shot:

Passing the nurses station:

I didn’t go too far from my room:

The view of the river and the oil refineries:

Despite there not being anything wrong with me, should I call Dennis and tell him that I was in the hospital? I watched one of his movies on iTunes and I felt really sad watching it. I want him home. Chloe, who is turning four years old tomorrow, asked me if her daddy was going to be here for her birthday. I had no answer. I said I hoped so. She said that’s all she wanted for her birthday. That made me sad. We have to work this out. For Chloe.

July 24th, 2009 by Echos

Jamie's Sick

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Hey everyone, Matt here updating for Jamie.
Jamie has been admitted to the hospital for headaches, vision disturbances, and dizziness. She swears this has nothing to do with her recent drug overdose and she insists there’s no reason for this. We got to the hospital around 10:30 PM and I left her at 2:30 AM today in good spirits. She was joking and playing around with her doctor, nurse, medical student while watching re-runs of Roseanne and Threes Company. She had an IV put in, multiple heart tests, an optic pressure test, a CT and some chest x-rays. She was given something to make her sleepy for the CT because of her panic attacks.
They are ruling out a brain tumor, a stroke, an aneurysm and neurological damage. The ED doctor she got was amazing. He’s doing every test he can imagine to rule out anything critical. She is having an MRI in the morning and her blood pressure, heart rate, and pulse ox are being monitored for now.
If anyone wants to send gifts, text messages or well wishes, I will be printing out her comments and emails before going to see her in the morning. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to suggest MP3s, songs, TV shows or something I can purchase from Itunes for her phone to take to her in the morning. She loves you all and will update her other blog in the morning.
She believes in the power of prayer. That might be something to consider.
–Matt

July 24th, 2009 by Echos