a trip to the ER...

Wow, yesterday was quite a day! I thought this was going to be a calm, quiet week with the boys at their grandparents and just the little ones at home. I was wrong!

Yesterday morning as we were leaving for work, D. commented that his left eye was bothering him. I asked what was wrong and he described it like when you look into a bright light and you have a blind spot in your eyes after. By the time we got to work he said it had spread to both eyes. He didn't seem too concerned, even commented maybe there was something on his glasses, etc. So, I did not give it a second thought.

Once we got to work, I went about my usual stuff...put out fire #1, listened to so & so complain about this or that, put out fire #2, and so on. I came back up to my office. I saw D. in his office and he had his head down so I went to see what was up. He looked up at me and was grey and ashen looking and sweating. He said he felt terrible.

  (isn't he handsome? so glad he is ok now!)

When I asked for specifics he said his left arm was numb, the blind spots were still there, he was nauseous, and he had cold sweats. I immediately got my purse and we left to go to the doctor.

On the drive I called our doctor to let her know what was going on. They told me not to even come to the office but to take him directly to the ER. So that is where we went.

At the ER he had a CT Scan, Chest X-ray, EKG, and lots of blood work. We waited and waited, as is the norm in the ER, right. Finally, the doctor came in and said that everything looked normal, there were no problems. No masses were detected in the CT scan which really was a relief to me. He gets LOTS of headaches and that has been a fear I have had. The EKG showed no irregularities in his heart. The blood work checked his heart enzymes for changes or damage to his heart and that was fine. They also checked his D-Dimer to see if he could have had or might have a blood clot and that was normal. They could find nothing wrong at all. The best the doctor could surmise was that he might have had a big fluctuation in his blood sugar because that can cause similar symptoms. He recommended D. follow up with his regular doctor in a few days and have a glucose tolerance test.

WOW! What a day. I am very relieved that there do not appear to be any problems with his heart or head! His family have a strong history of heart disease, in fact he loves to tell me that none of the men in over 4 generations have lived past 55...morbid dude! So, again, I am glad that all appears to be in good working order but now I am concerned about his sugar levels. Apparently there is also a strong history of diabetes in his family as well. He hates going to the doctor so it is going to be a challenge to get him to follow through on all of this. Luckily I told his Mom and Sister about what happened and they are already bugging him to go see the doctor and get everything checked out - gotta love family!