Try Not To Get Sick During What is Effectively a Holiday Weekend

[wolf]

This holiday weekend things is far too much of a trend. Happy Labor Day, everyone.

As I write this, it is 6:20 AM. I just got home from getting momwolf admitted to the hospital ICU. She is in Congestive Heart Failure (which yes, is a chronic condition, but she's got more of it than usual at the moment.)

I left work early. We got to the ER around 9:00 PM. There was a long wait for a bed, and at first she was expected to go to Telemetry, but got upgraded to ICU because she was placed on Heparin. The ICU is apparently protocol for that drug. One of her cardiac enzymes were also elevated, so they're trying to decide if she actually had a heart attack or not.

If I'd had my way she would have been at the ER at 2am last night, but I wasn't stern enough with her to make it happen. Tonight she didn't get to choose. I called 911 and didn't take no for an answer.

She didn't get to go to her favorite hospital, either ... it was too far away from where we are now living. As a bonus though, a close friend was the ER attending on duty tonight, so momwolf got first-class service, and also got to meet some of my Paramedic Friends who were kicking around in the ER.