Our week in March

Just wanted to share our past week with you. Tuesday we took Del to the ER, he finally gave in and agreed to go, he had been up since 2 am with chest pains and sever stomach pains, he finally took a pain medication and slept most of Tuesday away. Anyway at ER they took him in right away and his enzymes's were elevated, his white cells were evlevated, had a slight temp, and blood pressure was way down. They admitted him to the hosptial and started running tests on him, it turned out his gallbladder was angry (gangrene) as his doctor said, that was causing the infection throughout his body, his ekg's were off a bit so they did nuke tests on him. They decided that he needed to have his gallbladder out immediatly so they did that on Thursday, in the meantime his sugars went crazy so they put him on insulin. He did not get to eat until Friday. We thought he was going to get to come home on Friday, he was happy and then the other shoe dropped. The Cardiologist was not happy with the results done on his heart so he scheduled him for the stress test on Saturday morning (the one where he lays down they pump him full of chemicals, run him through the tube, yep that is what they did. Well the doctor came back and said yes he did have a small heart attack but it was not active at this time but he said that Del will have to have follow up visits from now on so they can prevent anymore attacks. Del now has a new best friend, his Cardiologist. We fianlly got to bring him home Saturday afternoon with a boat load of meds. While he was in the hsopital we cleaned out his stash. He has a foot stool in his room that opens and in it we found See's candies, girl scout cookies, M&M's, snickers. No more stash for him, we are now using Mrs. Dash for seasoning and will be including much more fresh veggies and fruits in the diet. What a wake up call this one was. Anyway that was our week, thank goodness it is over and all turned out well.