Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

Ok I got a phone call from the neurologist in Chicago and she confirmed she has given orders to admit her through the ER.

So we went ahead and discharged her from that shitty nursing home and I drove her here.

We're in the crowded ER waiting room at Rush UMC.

Sarah was wiggling around in her wheelchair and I noticed that her right arm moved.

I said kinda loud "Sarah, you just moved your right arm" and she lifted up her hand and I said "you're moving your right arm for the first time in two weeks" and she started crying.

 

[Duck]

CT scan

 

[Rigjockey]

I said kinda loud "Sarah, you just moved your right arm" and she lifted up her hand and I said "you're moving your right arm for the first time in two weeks" and she started crying.

That's a really good sign! I am happy to see a positive turn of events.

 

[Duck]

Hanging out in the ER at a major hospital near downtown Chicago on a Friday night is definitely an interesting experience. I wish I could video some of this shit but I'd probably get kicked out.

 

[Rigjockey]

Hanging out in the ER at a major hospital near downtown Chicago on a Friday night is definitely an interesting experience. I wish I could video some of this shit but I'd probably get kicked out.

Oh ya, the weekends in ER are interesting. fights, drunks, drugs and mental health issues.
None of those are funny but they sure are interesting people.
When I was in the last time there was a guy with a small piece of bamboo and that was his magic wand and no way would he let the nurses take it from him.

 

[Duck]

There were two crying babies in here a while ago. They took them back somewhere, hopefully not just for triage because that means they'll be back in a few minutes.

There's a pediatric lounge for babies to scream in but some funny looking woman is parked in front of the door so nobody can go in. She's dressed like colonel sanders from KFC.

 

[Duck]

Sarah had to poop. The front desk "nurse" said she'd send out a CNA an hour ago. It got so bad I pushed her into the "all gender bathroom" myself thinking there would be a call button to push next to the toilet but there isn't. There's no way I could get her jeans down while she's seated in the chair. She can't stand up unsupported yet.

So I went and got an EMT who had just delivered a patient and he held her up while I did the gross part. Then he went & got her a new diaper.

F*in ER at a major hospital and I couldn't even get hospital staff help in the bathroom.

 

[Electric Chicken]

It was freshman year. We were 14 years old and I hadn't hit that final growth spurt yet . No way

Picture Anthony Michael Hall in The Breakfast Club vs a few years later in Edward Scissorhands.

Seen the edit just now. My imagination isn't what it used to be so you're just gonna have to post up.

 

[Duck]

Sarah appears to be crashing. Blood pressure very low. They gave her adrenaline and steroids and right now they're inserting some kind of fancy catheter up into her neck or something. I'm out in the hallway to give them room to work because I noticed the doctor has medical equipment piled up on the couch.

She's in deep sleep and unresponsive.

 

[mndriver]

Any updates?

 

[Duck]

They have her stable.

Dissolving her pills in water and delivering them directly to her stomach via a skinny tube through her nose because she is considered unable to safely swallow pills.

Three IVs.

Looking into adrenal gland issues. Urosepsis, very bad UTI.

Body temp was 93.7 this morning so they've got a heater blowing air though what looks like a thin air mattress to warm her up.

I've been awake since 7AM yesterday morning. I just got home. In the morning I'm going to take the back seat out of the van again, grab my air mattress and and head back up there.

Blood pressures in the ICU this morning:



The view from the ICU.

 

[Duck]

This was in the ICU before they hooked up the heater. I wrapped her up like that with just her nose exposed.


The heater



If your urine ever looks like this here in the vertical column, get to an ER.

The cath tube delivers to that vertical column first, then it overflows into the larger chamber, then it overflows into the bag behind it.



After lots of IV fluids, her urine is almost clear now.

Sarah might opt to sue the nursing home when this is all over.

 

[Electric Chicken]

This was in the ICU before they hooked up the heater. I wrapped her up like that with just her nose exposed.
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The heater

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If your urine ever looks like this here in the vertical column, get to an ER.

The cath tube delivers to that vertical column first, then it overflows into the larger chamber, then it overflows into the bag behind it.

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After lots of IV fluids, her urine is almost clear now.

Sarah might opt to sue the nursing home when this is all over.

Liked for that last statement, and I'm not litigious by nature.

 

[mndriver]

Damn…

Wishing speedy recovery on this

 

[Duck]

Liked for that last statement, and I'm not litigious by nature.

I'm not either. She isn't either. But her stepmom might push her to do it.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I'm not either. She isn't either. But her stepmom might push her to do it.

Well they certainly earned it.

 

[Duck]

Well they certainly earned it.

The social worker there, the director of nursing, and the assistant director of nursing there all earned a slow crushing death in the back of a garbage truck.

But I'd probably get in trouble for that. Even though it would be a public service.

 

[Duck]

She's off the blood pressure medication and holding 106/63 awake. It was 89/54 a little while ago when she was asleep.

Just now she discovered a mirror built into her lunch tray desk thing and saw herself with the tube up her nose and now she's crying.

I'm waiting to do a video call with her brother but he's busy writing a eulogy for her other brother.

 

[Duck]

There is a guitar pick taped to the wall in this ICU room for some reason.

 

[GAnthony]

She's off the blood pressure medication and holding 106/63 awake. It was 89/54 a little while ago when she was asleep.

Just now she discovered a mirror built into her lunch tray desk thing and saw herself with the tube up her nose and now she's crying.

I'm waiting to do a video call with her brother but he's busy writing a eulogy for her other brother.

oh, so you have told her about her other brother........

i thought you were going to hold off for a much longer time.