September 20
Made a latte for hubby and he left for work. Then I did laundry and dishes as usual. Went outside to pick up poo. Took a quick 30 minute nap.
KRN called and said that hubby's work friend had called & said he was in Urgent Care but did not specify where. KRN was freaking out and wondering if it was a crank call. I could not get hubby to text me. No answer from either of his phones; work or personal. I called around to several urgent cares and they did not have anybody admitted. Then hubby called me and said he was at Kootenai Medical Center ER. Then hung up. So I called KRN back and told her. We both left to go to CDA.
Got the ER the same time as KRN. We located hubby. He had been in Post Falls and decided to go to Urgent Care to get his blood pressure checked out as it was feeling pretty high. The doctor there gave him an immediate IV which spouted blood everywhere, then a nitroglycerin pill and morphine. They transported him by ambulance to the ER where he got put on a heart monitor, blood pressure cuff, and another IV there. Kyle was his nurse there, a pretty nice and knowledgeable guy.
While he was having his HEART PROBLEMS in the hospital, the admin staff were so very nice (heavy sarcasm here...) to come get his down payment for deposit on his copay. Fortunately hubby had his credit card and put it on his account. But isn't that pathetic? Give a heart patient something to freak out about... and the stupid bitch even told him that that the 20% was going to be WAY MORE than what she collected - he paid her $200.
I am totally freaking out about what this two day adventure is going to cost us.
Ambulance
ER
Post Care
Prescriptions
Doctor
Tests
Kill me now.
Hubby was transported up to the PCU (Progressive Care Unit). Where he had to wait for 1 1/2 hours before a nurse even acknowledged he was there. Kyle had hooked him up to a portable heart rate monitor unit that DID NOT HAVE BATTERIES IN IT!!!
Matt & KRN had gotten lunch at Pita Pit while hubby was transferred from the ER to room 316-1. They found us once they got back.
Our son-in-law had to finally find a nurse to come in the room to acknowledge him. She got batteries for his unit.
KRN & I ran home to get hubby some comfortable pjs & magazines to read while he was in hospital. I made sure the dogs were OK at home. Somebody had shattered a glass mirror in the driveway and there were shards of glass everywhere. The milk of human kindness runs SOUR. I HATE PEOPLE. Once we got back, KRN & Matt left to return home.
Frontier work buddies Matt Z, Waterhouse, Jay, & Don came to visit for a little while in the afternoon.
Ever since he had been admitted, some nurse had come in to take his blood every 90 minutes for testing.
I stayed with hubby until 8:00 and left to return home. Got cheeseburgers for dogs at McDs in Rathdrum.
Dogs Enjoying Burgers
I was so tired that I took a bath after cleaning up when I got home. Fell into bed.
FRIDAY
September 21
I got the dogs set up with the AC to turn on as it has been 80-90 degrees. The fires in the local area have also covered our area in smoke. So no fun for the dogs in the past couple days. I hate to abandon them again for another day.
Got up to the hospital by 8:15.
Hubby was very glad I could make it up to see him. Dummy. What else am I supposed to do?
Anyway, he could not order breakfast and could not even drink water. He was restricted because he was going to take tests later...
Got an Echocardiograph of his heart; I could not photograph it due to bureaucratic restrictions. But it was very interesting to see it beating while we watched.
He was able to take a shower after this with the nurse setting everything up and me helping him while he went into the shower.
Then around 12:30 he went down to take his stress test. He was gone for about 2 1/2 hours.
The nurses freaked out because he was still wearing his remote battery operated heart monitor and it had gone very low. He was actually sleeping while they took a scan of the dye he had injected prioer to the test downstairs. Another nurse came in later to give me the good news that he had done well on his heart stress test & was being brought up in another 30 minutes.
Hubby in hospital bed
Hubby finally came back exhausted. We waited for the test results from the doctor.
The doctor came in around 6:00 to tell us that everything was normal and his blood pressure was back to normal. His cholesterol was normal. His heart rate even tho it was low, was normal. The doctor advised that he would be letting him return home. But that hubby should call in on Monday to schedule a follow up visit with the cardiologist.
Hubby was so hungry that he had ordered dinner while we were waiting to go home.
Finally the Discharge nurse came to give him all his prescriptions, cautions, and info. After removing his IV tube & heart monitor, we got hubby dressed, the orderly wheeled him out of the hospital in a wheelchair and we left around 7:30.
Stopped at Wendy's on the way home to get burgers for dogs & a salad for me. I was starving.
When we got home, fed the dogs, cleaned up after them, did laundry, unpacked hubby's go-bag, made bean soup.
We went to bed. Both of us exhausted.
SATURDAY
September 22
Got up late. I did not sleep very well last night. Need Costco melatonin pills. The Walmart pills do nothing for me. Hubby & I slept until 9am. He was exhausted.
We took the dogs for a walk in Farragut Park. Then he went down to shop to find out what had happened while he was gone.
I picked up all the shattered mirror glass in the driveway & swept the drive with a broom. What a mess.
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