So when I was growing up, Mom loved The Sound of Music and would sing songs from it. Right now as I'm about to try to explain the past month of hospital visits and all the craziness that has been going on, one of the songs pops into my head..."Let's start at the very beginning/the very best place to start...."
Starting in December, my Dad had a sinus infection that refused to go away. They tried lots of different antibiotics, different nose sprays, he had been using a neti pot for the past few years and they were trying different things to put in the water. Nothing was working. So he's been feeling sick for a while now.
Also for the previous few months he had been loosing his appetite for sweets (!) and other foods. A few rare times right after eating he would feel like he needed to throw up. Sometime he would and sometimes he wouldn't. Then he would feel better.
On the 8th of March Mom and Dad went out to eat at a Italian restaurant. Dad had shrimp. Around 9pm he started feeling really bad. He was vomiting and had pain in his stomach. They figured that he maybe had a slight case of food poisoning. Around 1am it went away and he went to sleep.
The next morning, when Dad awoke, he started having the pain in his abdomen all over again. Mom took him to the Presby ER. The reason that they went to Presby was beacause that is where his Ear/Nose/Throat doctors are and his PCP.
In the ER they gave him Dilaudid for the pain and Zofran for the nausea. This helped take the pain and nausea away. In the ER they performed a CT Scan to check for Gallstones. They were pretty sure that was what the problem was, but they kept him overnight in Presby because he had complained of some tightness in his chest.
Saturday the 10th he had a chemical stress test (beacuse of his Muscular Distrophy they couldn't do the treadmill type) and then sent him home. The stress test came back ok.
We went to see 300 with a few of my friends that Sunday. The movie rocked, in case anyone is wondering.
-Paige
