Post by charityholyfield on May 10, 2007 13:32:16 GMT -5
I just wanted to let you guys know what's going on... Schizo has been sick. His blood pressure is way too high, and he's been coughing up blood from time to time. The day before yesterday, he started coughing up LOTS of blood. We waited a bit to see if it would stop, but it never did. He had the trash can in front of him and the inside of it just got covered in it. It finally got bad enough yesterday afternoon that we took him to the ER at the hospital here in town where I work. After doing a couple of tests they sent him to a bigger and better hospital in St. Louis called St. Mary's Health Center or something like that... I just know it's in St. Louis. They got really mad when we got there and I think they called up and yelled at our little hospital for not sending him by helicopter. Apparently his blood pressure was so high they couldn't figure out why he hadn't stroked out yet. They did a CAT scan last night, and today they did an echocardiogram and they're going to also do a bronchoscopy and some other tests, don't really know it all yet. They don't know why his bp is so damned high, they don't know where exactly he's losing the blood from to cough it out, they don't know squat yet. There are about a gazillion different doctors coming in and out of there all day, and I just can't keep up. I stayed there with him all night, but I had to come home to take a shower and make sure the cats had food and water. That was a huge problem, because I can't drive in the city! I got lost for a long time and drove around all over, and then there was construction everywhere and all the cars were stopped for ages and ages, but I finally made my way back here after almost two hours. (Never been so happy to see home!) My stepdad is going to drive me back out there tonight-- I need to be with Schizo, but I can't make that drive again. Then I'll be stuck up there with no car or anything, so I guess I have to hope that someone comes and gets us when it's time for him to come home!!
I hope I'm not rambling too much-- it really has been a crazy bad couple of days and I'm wiped out. I just wanted to let you know everything and ask you all to pray that everything turns out okay in the end!!!!
I hope I'm not rambling too much-- it really has been a crazy bad couple of days and I'm wiped out. I just wanted to let you know everything and ask you all to pray that everything turns out okay in the end!!!!