HAPPY ANNIBIRTHDAY, @motie2! I’m so glad you are feeling better and that you and your wife have survived 50 years of marriage. Quite a feet nowadays! Praying that the sciatica completely leaves you as well this year!
I guess it's my turn. First the good. I drove up to north Alabama on Friday to attend a School for Santa on Saturday and Sunday then drove back on Monday morning. I completed the course and have the certificate to prove that I am a professionally trained Santa.
Now the bad.
While I was away, my wife decided it would be a good time to start having a pain in her lower back and instead of having one of our daughters take her ti the emergency room she waited for me to get home Monday afternoon. As soon as I unloaded the truck we went and got there around 3 pm. The did triage and had xrays done by 4 pm. It was almost four hours later before they decided to do triage for a second time and she had to tell everything to them again (I guess to verify what she had told them earlier.) and they took her vitals again. The difference was sometime between the first set of vitals and the second set, she started having a fast, irregular heartbeat so they did an EKG and said, "You are in AFIB."
Strange, how she's been sitting for four hours waiting for the hospital to see her and she starts having a heart problem. The "Nurse Practitioner" said the sitting and waiting has nothing to do with the heart problem and neither does the three days of severe pain and stress. Oh! They said "We aren't interested in the sharp back pain sending pain down your leg. That can be looked at later."
Anyway, they start excusing the delay by saying the hospital is full and it's taken so long because they don't have any open rooms, so they move her to another ER room.We sit there for another hour before I am satisfied that the hospital has made the wife comfortable and I come home. We live about 15 minutes from the hospital.
Finally, around 11 pm an actual doctor comes in and orders another EKG and some blood thinner which they finally give her an hour later. They didn't get her moved into a room until 6 am this morning. I will be going up there shortly to check on her after I call our doctor and make sure the hospital calls him.
Prayers up for your wife......I believe that very often the "hospital environment" in an emergent situation makes for a very upsetting and stressful experience. AFIB can be controlled, and was probably brought on by the stress and anxiety. She is on my prayer list.
@PappyJoe Glad to hear you are an official Santa:) Not glad to hear your wife is having trouble. Take care, and well wishes to your wife and you. Hospitals suck, but think where we might be without them?
@motie2 Looks as if the only continent unaffected is Antarctica... and I'm not moving there... Sure hope WHO can get a grip on this thing... 🙏 Sidenote: except for that small dot in Brazil, So. America seems relatively unaffected... but I'm not moving there either...
Earlier today my wife and I made an announcement on Facebook. I have a few facebook friends on here, so I thought I'd share the news here as well with everyone.
My wife and I are expecting our first baby in September! It took us a bit to reach the point where we felt we were ready, but that time is now, and I couldn't be happier!
@motie2 Interestingly, if the numbers are true on the # of cases vs the deaths (and I don't believe they are) the death rate is over 6% which is double the 3% that they reported a couple of weeks ago.
Gentlemen I think as a society we are certainly reactionary relative and prone to panic, particularly relative to this so called "pandemic". My concern is all the people who are losing their minds over this. I am not saying we are not facing a dangerous situation here, but the worst thing we can do is to panic. The selling of what is reported to be the last rolls of toilet tissue, paper towels, and hand sanitizer speaks to reacting as opposed to planning. I believe the biggest threat we have is the reaction to the situation, as opposed to a full blown Pandemic issue at hand. I have no idea what will become of this situation, but to give way to panic in an emergency is not what you want to do. Fear and panic in combat will get you killed. Every single TV news broadcast is filled with the data as to cases, deaths, the spreading of the Wuwu Flu, and none of them parallel each other, makes you wonder where the data is being made available. The fact is there are more poor folks that succumb to the "regular" flu each and every year. I hope and pray very hard that this blows over and quickly, but now is a time to take stock and act in a reasonable manner, help our neighbors, share resources and follow the advise of the medical professionals. Oh, and pray. My $0.02.
Sorry to add a negative issue on a post wishing the best for our friend Mapletop. Congrats Pal........
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Now the bad.
While I was away, my wife decided it would be a good time to start having a pain in her lower back and instead of having one of our daughters take her ti the emergency room she waited for me to get home Monday afternoon. As soon as I unloaded the truck we went and got there around 3 pm. The did triage and had xrays done by 4 pm. It was almost four hours later before they decided to do triage for a second time and she had to tell everything to them again (I guess to verify what she had told them earlier.) and they took her vitals again. The difference was sometime between the first set of vitals and the second set, she started having a fast, irregular heartbeat so they did an EKG and said, "You are in AFIB."
Strange, how she's been sitting for four hours waiting for the hospital to see her and she starts having a heart problem. The "Nurse Practitioner" said the sitting and waiting has nothing to do with the heart problem and neither does the three days of severe pain and stress. Oh! They said "We aren't interested in the sharp back pain sending pain down your leg. That can be looked at later."
Anyway, they start excusing the delay by saying the hospital is full and it's taken so long because they don't have any open rooms, so they move her to another ER room.We sit there for another hour before I am satisfied that the hospital has made the wife comfortable and I come home. We live about 15 minutes from the hospital.
Finally, around 11 pm an actual doctor comes in and orders another EKG and some blood thinner which they finally give her an hour later. They didn't get her moved into a room until 6 am this morning. I will be going up there shortly to check on her after I call our doctor and make sure the hospital calls him.
Praying for youe wife's swift and complete recovery.
Prayers up for your wife......I believe that very often the "hospital environment" in an emergent situation makes for a very upsetting and stressful experience. AFIB can be controlled, and was probably brought on by the stress and anxiety. She is on my prayer list.
Glad to hear you are an official Santa:)
Not glad to hear your wife is having trouble.
Take care, and well wishes to your wife and you.
Hospitals suck, but think where we might be without them?
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html
You can slide the map to US; make larger and smaller, etc.
Sure hope WHO can get a grip on this thing... 🙏
Sidenote: except for that small dot in Brazil, So. America seems relatively unaffected... but I'm not moving there either...
My wife and I are expecting our first baby in September! It took us a bit to reach the point where we felt we were ready, but that time is now, and I couldn't be happier!
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html
Surprised it’s only doubled in a week.....
I think as a society we are certainly reactionary relative and prone to panic, particularly relative to this so called "pandemic". My concern is all the people who are losing their minds over this. I am not saying we are not facing a dangerous situation here, but the worst thing we can do is to panic. The selling of what is reported to be the last rolls of toilet tissue, paper towels, and hand sanitizer speaks to reacting as opposed to planning. I believe the biggest threat we have is the reaction to the situation, as opposed to a full blown Pandemic issue at hand. I have no idea what will become of this situation, but to give way to panic in an emergency is not what you want to do. Fear and panic in combat will get you killed. Every single TV news broadcast is filled with the data as to cases, deaths, the spreading of the Wuwu Flu, and none of them parallel each other, makes you wonder where the data is being made available. The fact is there are more poor folks that succumb to the "regular" flu each and every year. I hope and pray very hard that this blows over and quickly, but now is a time to take stock and act in a reasonable manner, help our neighbors, share resources and follow the advise of the medical professionals. Oh, and pray. My $0.02.
Sorry to add a negative issue on a post wishing the best for our friend Mapletop. Congrats Pal........