Fighting for my life
Posted by stephanie on September 8th, 2007
My dear family and friends I was not ignoring you this past week. I was well; how do you say fighting for my life? It seems I had a little set back after my post Saturday morning. A good friend stopped by and gave me a back rub, my shoulders and back were a bit sore. After my rub down I took a nap. I woke up with a temp that kept rising.
We contacted the doctors office and were told to go to the hospital. John was up to his elbows replacing the dishwasher, mom was running errands and David volunteered to take me to the emergency room (ED). He was proud. After we left the house, John was able to get a hold of my mom and she was one her way to meet us. They triaged us and found my blood pressure (bp) and oxygen level(O2) were very low. Mom mom arrived in the middle of this and they took us all straight back to a trauma room. My bp was 62/30. Looks like the “not so serious” was quickly changing.
The ED went to work to get me stabilized. John and Jennifer arrived. The decision was made to admit me to the ICU and to stabilize me over the next 24 hours. They placed me on two different drugs to raise my bp. The 1st one raised my heart rate too high. The second drug worked well. They were consulting other specialist and my team of doctors had grown to 4.