Saturday, September 30, 2017

Time in The ED

I was busy working outside today getting some of the old pane glass basement windows re-glazed when Kris comes outside and tells me she just got a call from the Arboretum and her dad is going to the ER (or in modern terms the ED – Emergency Dept.).  Apparently he was having a lot of trouble breathing and when they checked him he had a fever, so they sent him over to be checked out.  So that means we have to stop everything and go spend a few hours sitting in the ER waiting for the doctors to run tests, etc.  Just what I want to do on a nice day when I have stuff to do outside. 

When we got there we found out that the attendant at the Arboretum reported that they think he may have choked on something at dinner and had foreign material in his lungs, which may be causing aspiration pneumonia.  He definitely had a serious wheezing problem when he breathed.  So after running some tests, they were going to keep him overnight at least.  So this is going to lead to him not being allowed to go back, I just know it.  

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