Not House Related

You might have heard by now that Dan's been in Emergency all night and all day today. He got home from work yesterday and was feeling a little dizzy so he went to lay down. By the time I got home from work an hour later he was fevered, throwing up, and deathly pale (as white as I have ever seen a person). I tried to get him to drink but he wouldn't. Dad and I went out for supper (no way to eat here when all you hear is throwing up and the smell wafting down the stairs). I text him the whole time we were gone and he kept getting worse. Just as we were getting home he passed out in the bathroom. Then he passed out in bed in the middle of talking to me. So I took him to the ER. We went to City Hospital (downtown). They tried to draw blood and start an IV about ten pokes later they finally got it. He was so dehydrated he had no vanes. They gave him morphine and then something to stop the throwing up (that didn't really stop it). We were there for three hours and then they told us there were going to transfer us to St. Paul's Hospital (on our side of the city) because City closes at night. So we got a ambulance ride over there (they wouldn't turn the sirens on for me though). We got to the hospital but their were so many people they had no bed for Dan. He got to lay on the ambulance gerne in a back hallway with four other people they had transferred from City Hospital. When the first bed was available we got it even though the others were there before us (because they needed to get Dan on more drugs and it was getting too hard to administer them in the hallway). So by about midnight we were in a room and waiting for the next doctor to come see us. More blood was drawn, more drugs given. By two am the doc came and ordered x-rays of Dan's stomach for him. At this point one set of blood had come back and said he had an infection (white blood cell count was high). I went home at this point so Dan could get some sleep. When I came back in the morning he was getting an ultrasound. He was feeling not too bad and was even able to walk a few steps (which is amazing because he could not even sit up with the doctors help last night). But he soon turned from bad to worse and they started pumping meds again. They ultrasound and x-ray were clear. So the doctor decided this afternoon to start trying to give some water (he had not had anything to eat or drink since noon yesterday). But after half a cup of water and a little apple juice he threw up again. So they pumped him full of a lot more meds. So that is where we sit right now. I'm home again just getting some rest before headed back this evening. They have no idea when they will be able to send him home. We thought he would come home this afternoon but if he can't even hold down water he's going to get dehydrated and sent right back. So far all we know is that it is not his appendix, not his gull bladder, not an ulcer. It may be a flue or food poisoning (not my fault) but the longer dan stays sick the less likely these are. So the doctors are stumped right now as to what to do. They are going to try him on liquids again this evening and we'll see where that takes us.

Oh yeah, and on top of not sleeping much last night because I was up with Dan; the night before Emint was up throwing up all night because he chewed a bone into little sharp pieces. It's been some week!