My dad spent the last couple of days in the hospital but is now home!
It all started on Tuesday when he started feeling really sick and dizzy. He got up but passed out because he was so light headed and when he came to, he had thrown up grape juice all over the floor. Dave thought there was blood in it too, but wasn't sure.
That night he was still really dizzy so Dave and I took him to the ER to have him checked out. He was really dehydrated so they gave him an IV and then he started to feel a lot better. They ran all the other tests too and found that his blood levels were a little low, but not abnormal and they had him go home.
Wednesday he was trying to get better but was having a hard time bouncing back. For those of you that know my dad, you know that he is NEVER sick and when he is, he gets over it really quickly. This was concerning.
Luckily my brother Dustin was in Vegas working and had heard of a guy that works for my dad that was having the same symptoms when they thought he had the flu. But it turned out he had been bleeding internally and they didn't know it until it was almost too late. Dustin told them to go get another blood work up the on Thursday morning, so they did.
Thursday morning they got the blood work done at his doctor's office and by afternoon he was starting to feel better (he thought) until his doctor called him and told him to get to the ER - ASAP! His blood levels had dropped dramatically.
They admitted him into the hospital Thursday afternoon and that night gave him a blood transfusion of 3 pints. Friday they scoped him and found that he had a hyrnia on this esophogus and it was all scratched up and bleeding. That's where the blood was coming from.
They put him on some acid reflux medicine that will heal his esophogus and let him come home today. He will go back on Monday morning and have his blood tested again to see if the bleeding has stopped.
This was pretty scary for our family. My dad is our rock and has never been in the hospital until now. We are so glad he's on the mend. I know he's glad to be home too because he did not like being in the hospital one little bit!
Brittany and I had a fun time sitting with him though and laughing. He felt pretty good the whole time he was there so that's what made it hard for him to sit there!
I have some great video of him too but I'm not quite ready to be written out of the "Will" yet so I won't post them :)
3 comments:
Great! We are glad to hear your Dad is doing much better. It isn't fun seeing a parent suffer and having them the hospital.
Glad to hear he's doing better! I hate that our parents have to get older :(
I'm glad to hear he's home and hopefully feeling better! Make sure you take care of him, because those dad's tend to be worried about others and forget to take care of themselves! ;)
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