Things have taken quite a turn in the past 24 hours. I was able to bring Bob home Tuesday afternoon, since he felt ok after that mild heart attack. But by time we'd made a couple of stops and had dinner, he started having the familiar chest pains off and on. We began re-gathering everything to take with us, while hoping the pains would stop, but by 9:30 pm it was time to head back to UCSF. Arrived just before 11 pm, and he was triaged faster than ever, since several of the same nurses from Sunday night recognized us.
This time the pain got worse when we arrived, and at one point there were a dozen people in the room with us. All he felt was the chest pain, but according to the monitors his heart was way out of rhythm and blood pressure real low. They consulted with the heart failure and cardiac docs and got the right meds going, and by about 1 am he was stable again. Of course he was admitted again and is in ICU on the 10th floor, waiting today to see what's in store for him.
There was a major development before we left the hospital that has us very hopeful and may be even closer now: the transplant surgeon came by and told us that recent problems put Bob at the top of the list of status 1B patients. He said there was no reason to move him to 1A ( highest priority) because there are currently no 1A patients in the region. Of course that can change, but essentially right now Bob is at the top of the list as far as his surgeon and transplant team are concerned. We were excited and scared but assuming we would wait for the big phone call from home. Last night's events changed things, I suspect.
When I spoke to Bob this morning he was expecting a visit from the docs of course, and he is again without food while they decide if there are any procedures to be done besides dialysis. I will update when possible.
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