Goatface
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in a couple of weeks, will be the 3 year anniversary of my dad having a heart event and spending his birthday in the hospital. his heart was at 25% afterwards. with some effort he got it back up to 30-35%, but he is in his late 70's, so there is a limit to what he can/wants to do. over the years had a lot of ups and downs. he is in stage 4 heart and kidney failure.
over the last month, he had put on weight, like 9lbs in 3 weeks. tried to get him to call the doctors, but no amount of debating would get him to go. parents went on long road trip to visit her sister and he gained 11 pounds in couple of days. he went an saw his pp but mainly over having what he thought was sinus pain. she saw his kidneys were doing worse, but he doubled his fluid pills, but only lost 7 pounds over 5 days. finally his kidney doctor told him to go to hospital. got to hospital at 11am and around 3pm er doctor talked to us about putting him for a couple of days to get the fluid off, plus he has covid. we waited from 3pm - 9:30pm to get a room. during this time, they would come in and get samples, but didn't talk to us.
posted in the rustled jimmies thread. the hospital system has a portal app that shows all tests and reports, but there was no cell signal in the er and the portal blocks logins from their wifi. (also tried a vpn and it wouldn't work). if you left the er, would have to wait in the check in line to get buzzed in. twice this took about 10 mins, once was no line. that are the reasons i wasn't checking the results often.
he gets into room and they tell me they are going to connect him to a few monitors and he will be set for the night. mom is staying with him, so i leave as it is almost an hour drive home. this point i am dead tired, call mom, she said his heart protein level is off the charts. pull up the report, normal is under 450, when he had is last heart event it was 8k, it is now 35k+. kidneys also worse, so shits a lot worse than i thought. during his last heart event, he was on forced oxygen and there was no question how bad it was. guess let myself to downplay what was going on.
having only gotten few hours sleep the night before, pass out for a couple of hours, but been awake all night with stomach twisting in knots.
my dad is truly my best friend, we talk daily and even this year were picking up the random odd job together. even feeling terrible, he was helping me work on mom's van this sunday.
don't know if anyone cares, but it helps me to post shit here. know it doesn't look like it but been writing this post for like 2 hours. this is really the only social media i use and trying to limit how much i dump on friends and extended family.
over the last month, he had put on weight, like 9lbs in 3 weeks. tried to get him to call the doctors, but no amount of debating would get him to go. parents went on long road trip to visit her sister and he gained 11 pounds in couple of days. he went an saw his pp but mainly over having what he thought was sinus pain. she saw his kidneys were doing worse, but he doubled his fluid pills, but only lost 7 pounds over 5 days. finally his kidney doctor told him to go to hospital. got to hospital at 11am and around 3pm er doctor talked to us about putting him for a couple of days to get the fluid off, plus he has covid. we waited from 3pm - 9:30pm to get a room. during this time, they would come in and get samples, but didn't talk to us.
posted in the rustled jimmies thread. the hospital system has a portal app that shows all tests and reports, but there was no cell signal in the er and the portal blocks logins from their wifi. (also tried a vpn and it wouldn't work). if you left the er, would have to wait in the check in line to get buzzed in. twice this took about 10 mins, once was no line. that are the reasons i wasn't checking the results often.
he gets into room and they tell me they are going to connect him to a few monitors and he will be set for the night. mom is staying with him, so i leave as it is almost an hour drive home. this point i am dead tired, call mom, she said his heart protein level is off the charts. pull up the report, normal is under 450, when he had is last heart event it was 8k, it is now 35k+. kidneys also worse, so shits a lot worse than i thought. during his last heart event, he was on forced oxygen and there was no question how bad it was. guess let myself to downplay what was going on.
having only gotten few hours sleep the night before, pass out for a couple of hours, but been awake all night with stomach twisting in knots.
my dad is truly my best friend, we talk daily and even this year were picking up the random odd job together. even feeling terrible, he was helping me work on mom's van this sunday.
don't know if anyone cares, but it helps me to post shit here. know it doesn't look like it but been writing this post for like 2 hours. this is really the only social media i use and trying to limit how much i dump on friends and extended family.
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