Try Not To Get Sick During What is Effectively a Holiday Weekend - Page 12

limey · 09-05-2009, 09:39 AM

Sorry wolf. It's no fun when mum is sick. Hugs to you both.

monster · 09-05-2009, 01:29 PM

richlevy · 09-05-2009, 01:48 PM

Hang in there.

classicman · 09-06-2009, 07:10 AM

More prayers for momwolf.

monster · 09-06-2009, 03:27 PM

How is she today?

DanaC · 09-06-2009, 04:23 PM

Yeah, how's your Mum doing Wolf?

wolf · 09-06-2009, 04:51 PM

Got back from the hospital a bit ago, went for visiting around 1130. Momwolf was sleeping. Her nurse pulled me aside and let me know that they are having trouble stabilizing her heart rate. She'll spike up into the 130s or better. Then some Nitro and Serax later, she's back down into normal range. Happened again while I was there. I got shuffled out into the family waiting room and called back in about 15 minutes later. The hospitalist and cardiologist are monitoring her carefully.

She slept most of the time I was there, which is fine. She needs that right now. I left after she woke up for a bit, because I didn't want her to awaken and just find me gone.

She's very frightened.

One of the things that they told her they wanted to do was a cardiac catheterization. So far she is refusing. The last time she had one down was at HUP/Presbyterian, back in 2006. At the time it revealed what we already knew ... the grafts from her 1985 cardiac bypass have lost elasticity, and they are also partially occluded. At the time they had considered placing a stent, but the architecture of her veins was such that they wouldn't be able to maneuver one into place without a strong possibility of busting through the vessel wall, so no go on that.

Frankly, I don't expect that much has changed there in the last three years. This is also the opinion of her cardiologist.

I can't wait until the darn holiday weekend is over and this hospital's guy can talk to her guy.

What I have to figure out is what to do ... do the paperwork and initiate FMLA now, or when she's ready for discharge home?

(It's really my only option. I am totally out of vacation at this point (momwolf's breast cancer, shingles, and my visit to The Mouse), and if I don't work the minimum number of hours per week I have to pay out of pocket for my insurance. At least with FMLA they can charge the time against sick rather than vacay. And I have plenty of sick.)

DanaC · 09-06-2009, 04:57 PM

Ach Wolf, honey, how worrying for you. And how scary for your poor mum.

monster · 09-06-2009, 09:03 PM

So sorry wolf.

capnhowdy · 09-07-2009, 08:06 AM

Thoughts and prayers from the capnhowdy camp.

Griff · 09-07-2009, 08:19 AM

I'm sorry it is going so rough.

Pie · 09-07-2009, 03:12 PM

Man, wolf, I'm sorry you're going through this. We turned down a cardiac cath for my father, two days before he died. The cardiac team was all gung-ho, but the real question was "is anything actionable going to come out of this" and the answer was a resounding "no".

Best wishes for momwolf.

wolf · 09-07-2009, 06:58 PM

Today's visit went well, mostly anyway. She has some color other than "ashen," which I took to be an encouraging sign. However, she had a "cardiac event" while I was there, much like the one I described above.

Tonight I got a call from the doctor covering the unit. She's apparently had a couple more episodes since this afternoon. I offered to come over because she's scared about being alone, but the doc told me not to come as they are hoping that she will get some sleep, but they will call for me if momwolf wants me there.

This sucks.

jinx · 09-07-2009, 07:02 PM

Sucks is right wolf.

We'll be thinking of you both...

TheMercenary · 09-07-2009, 08:42 PM

Sorry to hear about all that wolf. Hope mom wolf pulls out. Sounds like she is going through quite the ordeal. But I do think she is in the best place she can be for now, as unsettling as it is with her in the hospital. Good thoughts coming your way.

09-05-2009, 09:39 AM	#166
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Sorry wolf. It's no fun when mum is sick. Hugs to you both. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

09-05-2009, 01:29 PM	#167
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	__________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-05-2009, 01:48 PM	#168
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Hang in there. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

09-06-2009, 07:10 AM	#169
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	More prayers for momwolf. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

09-06-2009, 03:27 PM	#170
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	How is she today? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-06-2009, 04:51 PM	#172
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Got back from the hospital a bit ago, went for visiting around 1130. Momwolf was sleeping. Her nurse pulled me aside and let me know that they are having trouble stabilizing her heart rate. She'll spike up into the 130s or better. Then some Nitro and Serax later, she's back down into normal range. Happened again while I was there. I got shuffled out into the family waiting room and called back in about 15 minutes later. The hospitalist and cardiologist are monitoring her carefully. She slept most of the time I was there, which is fine. She needs that right now. I left after she woke up for a bit, because I didn't want her to awaken and just find me gone. She's very frightened. One of the things that they told her they wanted to do was a cardiac catheterization. So far she is refusing. The last time she had one down was at HUP/Presbyterian, back in 2006. At the time it revealed what we already knew ... the grafts from her 1985 cardiac bypass have lost elasticity, and they are also partially occluded. At the time they had considered placing a stent, but the architecture of her veins was such that they wouldn't be able to maneuver one into place without a strong possibility of busting through the vessel wall, so no go on that. Frankly, I don't expect that much has changed there in the last three years. This is also the opinion of her cardiologist. I can't wait until the darn holiday weekend is over and this hospital's guy can talk to her guy. What I have to figure out is what to do ... do the paperwork and initiate FMLA now, or when she's ready for discharge home? (It's really my only option. I am totally out of vacation at this point (momwolf's breast cancer, shingles, and my visit to The Mouse), and if I don't work the minimum number of hours per week I have to pay out of pocket for my insurance. At least with FMLA they can charge the time against sick rather than vacay. And I have plenty of sick.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-06-2009, 09:03 PM	#174
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	So sorry wolf. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-07-2009, 08:06 AM	#175
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Thoughts and prayers from the capnhowdy camp. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

09-07-2009, 08:19 AM	#176
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I'm sorry it is going so rough. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-07-2009, 03:12 PM	#177
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Man, wolf, I'm sorry you're going through this. We turned down a cardiac cath for my father, two days before he died. The cardiac team was all gung-ho, but the real question was "is anything actionable going to come out of this" and the answer was a resounding "no". Best wishes for momwolf. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

09-07-2009, 06:58 PM	#178
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Today's visit went well, mostly anyway. She has some color other than "ashen," which I took to be an encouraging sign. However, she had a "cardiac event" while I was there, much like the one I described above. Tonight I got a call from the doctor covering the unit. She's apparently had a couple more episodes since this afternoon. I offered to come over because she's scared about being alone, but the doc told me not to come as they are hoping that she will get some sleep, but they will call for me if momwolf wants me there. This sucks. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-07-2009, 07:02 PM	#179
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Sucks is right wolf. We'll be thinking of you both... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

09-07-2009, 08:42 PM	#180
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Sorry to hear about all that wolf. Hope mom wolf pulls out. Sounds like she is going through quite the ordeal. But I do think she is in the best place she can be for now, as unsettling as it is with her in the hospital. Good thoughts coming your way. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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