michaelab
desafinado
You might have noticed I haven't been very active here this w/e. Well, on Friday night my wife was feeling very weak and occasionally getting faint. I suggested we go to the hospital but she just wanted to go out for a coffee "it'll pass". Fortunately, a friend turned up and convinced her to go to the hospital. By this time her face was white as a sheet. Got to the hospital (they have a sort of "clinic" section) and they ran some tests and confirmed she had quite severe anemia but they didn't know why. Just as she's filling out the forms to return home she faints in the doctor's office. We try to get her up again but she can't even sit up now for more than a few seconds before fainting again. Then she starts vomiting blood......All hell breaks loose, she's laid on a stretcher and they draw the curtain and I don't know what's going on but I can hear doctor explaining how she has to swallow this tube.
The doctor comes out and explains that she's got severe internal bleeding from, probably, a stomach ulcer allthough an endoscopy is required to determine that. I can see her and she's concious but the has a tube from her stomach coming out of her nose, which is just draining blood. She's also on a drip. Shortly afterwards she's taken to intensive care and all I can do is go home.
Well, to cut a long story shorter, it was a stomach ulcer and she lost a hell of a lot of blood. She had to have 4 or 5 blood transfusions and was in a critical condition for a while but she's now out of danger and the ulcer has healed, for the time being. Hopefully by tomorrow she'll be in a room, out of ICU.
It's been a stressful weekend and it's made me think. If we'd got to the hospital a few hours later, or if she'd gone to bed early and fallen unconcious in bed whilst I was asleep she probably wouldn't have made it. It's really shocking how someone can go from being apparently quite normal, laughing and joking with the doctor to being close to death all in a matter of a minute or two.
You also realise what's important in life and what isn't. HiFi isn't, neither are flash cars, neither is footbal.
Anyway, today she is doing a lot better and the second endoscopy showed the ulcer was healing and no longer an imminent threat.
Sorry if this post makes awkward reading, I just felt like writing it. For the next couple of weeks I probably won't be on the forum as much as I usually am.
Cheers,
Michael.
The doctor comes out and explains that she's got severe internal bleeding from, probably, a stomach ulcer allthough an endoscopy is required to determine that. I can see her and she's concious but the has a tube from her stomach coming out of her nose, which is just draining blood. She's also on a drip. Shortly afterwards she's taken to intensive care and all I can do is go home.
Well, to cut a long story shorter, it was a stomach ulcer and she lost a hell of a lot of blood. She had to have 4 or 5 blood transfusions and was in a critical condition for a while but she's now out of danger and the ulcer has healed, for the time being. Hopefully by tomorrow she'll be in a room, out of ICU.
It's been a stressful weekend and it's made me think. If we'd got to the hospital a few hours later, or if she'd gone to bed early and fallen unconcious in bed whilst I was asleep she probably wouldn't have made it. It's really shocking how someone can go from being apparently quite normal, laughing and joking with the doctor to being close to death all in a matter of a minute or two.
You also realise what's important in life and what isn't. HiFi isn't, neither are flash cars, neither is footbal.
Anyway, today she is doing a lot better and the second endoscopy showed the ulcer was healing and no longer an imminent threat.
Sorry if this post makes awkward reading, I just felt like writing it. For the next couple of weeks I probably won't be on the forum as much as I usually am.
Cheers,
Michael.
