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“May you live in interesting times.” Thank you, my times are interesting enough as is, and it looks like ‘interesting’ may be returning.
My mother-in-law is in the hospital and she may have had a ‘cardiac event’ last night.
Clare was supposed to have surgery Friday (postponed) to clear a carotid blockage. The normal procedure to clear a blockage is to run a probe through either your urethra or femoral artery up to the point of blockage and put in a stent. It’s actually sort of a Rotor Rooter procedure.
In Clare’s case, they can’t do it like that. She’s had the procedure before, and the femoral artery collapsed, causing all sorts of fun (i.e. stents to reopen it). There were other complications, I don’t recall them off hand. The plan was to do something somewhat more direct – open the carotid artery directly, clear the blockage, close it up. Obviously this also has somewhat higher risk factor associated with it.
She was admitted to the hospital last week and found to be severely anemic. They want to get the anemia under control before they operate. They gave her FOUR UNITS of blood. They still don’t know why she’s anemic.
Russ got home this AM, I don’t know when, and the phone rang. It was her brother reporting that Clare had the cardiac event. Symptomatically it appears to have been a heart attack, but some of the symptoms don’t make sense. They did find protein enzyme evidence in her blood that she had one, but it’s possibly left over from a previous heart attack. I would have thought that such protein would clear after time, but I ain’t an MD or cardiologist.
Basically we don’t know what’s going on, but yet another trip back to Ohio to bury her mother would be very bad. I really hope she pulls out of it and can stay clear from the hospital for a year or two.
There seems to be a lot of hospitals in my life right now, and it’s going to take me a lot of time to write up the next one, so I’ll leave this one at this and get it posted.
My mother-in-law is in the hospital and she may have had a ‘cardiac event’ last night.
Clare was supposed to have surgery Friday (postponed) to clear a carotid blockage. The normal procedure to clear a blockage is to run a probe through either your urethra or femoral artery up to the point of blockage and put in a stent. It’s actually sort of a Rotor Rooter procedure.
In Clare’s case, they can’t do it like that. She’s had the procedure before, and the femoral artery collapsed, causing all sorts of fun (i.e. stents to reopen it). There were other complications, I don’t recall them off hand. The plan was to do something somewhat more direct – open the carotid artery directly, clear the blockage, close it up. Obviously this also has somewhat higher risk factor associated with it.
She was admitted to the hospital last week and found to be severely anemic. They want to get the anemia under control before they operate. They gave her FOUR UNITS of blood. They still don’t know why she’s anemic.
Russ got home this AM, I don’t know when, and the phone rang. It was her brother reporting that Clare had the cardiac event. Symptomatically it appears to have been a heart attack, but some of the symptoms don’t make sense. They did find protein enzyme evidence in her blood that she had one, but it’s possibly left over from a previous heart attack. I would have thought that such protein would clear after time, but I ain’t an MD or cardiologist.
Basically we don’t know what’s going on, but yet another trip back to Ohio to bury her mother would be very bad. I really hope she pulls out of it and can stay clear from the hospital for a year or two.
There seems to be a lot of hospitals in my life right now, and it’s going to take me a lot of time to write up the next one, so I’ll leave this one at this and get it posted.
