ER visit

Ok..so spent the evening in the ER. Why when you go to the ER does it take a minimum of 4-6 hours?? Now we get there waited about 10 minutes, then get to the triage nurse. Because he had treatment on Friday they did get us a bed quickly. So the nurse got the IV set up and said that the doctor will be with us soon. There was only two charts in front of us. Well an hour later of moaning in pain. The Doctor strolled in.....and was like, "What can I do for you?" Well Duh! What do you think you can do for us!! Dip Shit! I don't understand ER Doctors, they just don't seem to have a clue. But I will have to say he at least gave ted the drugs that he needed. It took 2mg of Deliuded, a volum and then and hour later 1mg of deluadid and some torridal. That seem to settle him down and by then he was hungry so we had to stop at IHOP at midnight for pancakes. So we are off to see the Pain mangement doctor for an adjustment in in his pain pump. For those of you who don't know Ted has an intrathecal pain pump. It pumps deluadid and another drug into his spine. This has been the wonder tool for ted. But this pain he had yesterday came out of no where and we just couldn't get a handle on it. I didn't want him to overdose or get sick.

Well we saw the pulminologist earlier in the day and he said that they couldn't find any asthma, sleep apnea, or anthing of major issue. The only thing that came back bad was, that there is possible scarring in the lungs from the chemo, or coughing. This is what might be causing the sometimes low oxygen levels. They are going to do a Ct scan of his lungs with very small slices of the lungs instead of the normal ct where they do larger chuncks. There is nothing he can do for it. But doing the CT scan gives him a baseline and if it gets worse he can talk with the oncologist about stoping chemo. That might be more of a difficult decision. I know things are going to get more complicated as time goes on.

Thank you everyone for all your support and kind words.

Karen