Thursday, April 08, 2004
APRIL 7th thru the 8th
Did you ever have one of those days that lasted two days and you ended up so tired you just wanted to curl up and sleep for a month?
Wednesday morning, up at 6am, we headed to the hospital for Jay’s outpatient Vitrectomy. The surgery went very well and we were on our way to brunch by noon. Finish brunch and arrived home around 2pm. We laid down for about 2 hours and at around 5:30pm I started supper.
After supper around 9:30pm Jay compained of stiffness in his legs and began to stumple as he moved. It was time to run his evening tests so we started with the blood pressure. It was ok but when we did the blood sugar it was 530. Much to high and his walking became worse. A call to the hospital had us on the second 68 mile trip to the hospital in the same day.
Upon arrival blood sugar stood at 492 so they started an IV and 10 units of insulin. We waited about 1 1/2 hours and they check the level again (338). So another wait with another 5 units of insulin and finally it below 300 so they let us come home. We had left home at 10:30pm and arrived back home at 4:30 am.
We called the Retina Vitreous swering service to explain we couldn’t make the 9:45am appointment and at 5am fell into bed. At 8:15am the doctor’s office called back to say we had to be in to check Jay’s eye before 11am to verify the surgery was ok. So back on the road , this time 58 miles, and we were only 5-6mins. late for the appointment. Out of there an hour later and we decided to see the personal doctor on the way home because the blood pressure was 169.
Finally at around 11:45 am we were back home and all this because he didn’t get his morning insulin on Wednesday morning. It is something I don’t want to do again for a long time. But I now appreciate Sweet thing’s helping me when I ended up in the hospital and she drove that stretch 3 or 4 times.
