Well, the plans for a carefree holiday month have taken a bit of a turn: last night around midnight I drove RJ to UCSF after he told me about a new chest pain that sneaked up on him earlier in the evening. ER welcomed us speedily, he was hooked up to oxygen, x-rayed and gave up some tubes of blood. Of course his symptoms were gone by time we arrived and he slept most of the night pretty comfortably. (I on the other hand was less comfortable on the 2 chairs with my blanket and pillow, but the peace of mind having him in the right hospital more than made up for the loss of sleep).
Bottom line at this point Wed. night: he did have a small heart attack last evening. He had cardiac cathaterizations on both the right and left sides of his heart mid-day today. No new blockages were discovered, but his pulmonary pressures were back to being way too high, after being corrected just 3 weeks ago. A catheter was put back in his neck for monitoring those pressures in his pulmonary artery.
He was then shipped up to ICU for tonight and had a dialysis session after arriving. He will be kept there several days from what I was told, while the cardiology team tries to figure out what to do to prevent this from happening again. We're getting better at handling the barrage of plans that change by the moment: maybe he'll stay for the long term, maybe he'll be stabilized and sent home, etc. .....whatever, we will roll with it and hope for a transplant sooner rather than later.
He has his cell phone if anyone wants to call - visitors probably should wait until Friday when he has regained more strength from the long procedure today. So we officially have no clue about what December will bring, other than hope!
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