Our mellow Monday took a dramatic turn just as the Physical Therapist arrived. We got a call from the Kidney Transplant department ordering us to pack a bag and come to the admitting office asap to get Bob checked in to the hospital. After all our questions and complaints about the excess fluid leakage, they finally decided to get agressive on checking it out.....just when I'd decided that I'd back off after 10 days of griping about it.
We got to the hospital before 5, and he was up on the 9th floor ( kidney and liver focus) by 6 pm, demanding dinner and ice and his insulin shot immediately. Not sure that was the best way to meet the staff his first time on the new floor, but that's his current technique. Maybe the new meds are causing a bit of a personality change at the moment? He was acting alarming like his late father!
Anyway, after all the rush, we are now waiting to hear when the Mag 3 scan (whatever that is) will be done to check on the source of all this fluid that continues to be produced. Could be that a surgical intervention will be needed. They are also testing samples of the fluid, just as they did in the ED back on the 21st, to make sure there is no sign of infection.
The upside, besides getting this resolved, is that he is relaxed and pretty content in a room with the best possible view of the City, enjoying his Robert Ludlum novel and being taken care of much more efficiently than at home with me. And I of course am ok with a little break from caregiving, taking advantage of this hopefully brief situation to catch up on phone calls, insurance paperwork and other essential bits of life.
He has his cell phone available. I will update the blog when I know something, as usual. We will work on a new theme song for him once we are done with the Cripple Creek experience!
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