Back in the hospital but this time it's me and not June
I'm on the same floor in the same hospital where June was at when I brought her to the hospital when she had the stroke on the 15th of last month and she died on the 21st just a few days later.
I was having dizzy spells for about 3 days and pressure on my chest which I thought might have been due to the stress I've been under for the past year and a half. I went to the walk-in clinic and they said I needed to go to the emergency room because my EKG looked bad. I went to the emergency room and they admitted me on Monday and they've been running tests and they think I have blockage on the left side of my heart from the nuclear stress test they performed on me yesterday. They're going to do another test in the morning where they put the camera in your vein to look in your heart.
I prayed to the Lord all the while that June was sick to keep me healthy so I could take care of her. Looks like God took me up on the deal. Less than a month later here I am.
I'll find out in the morning whether I need to have stents put in or open heart surgery I guess.
I guess this is in keeping with my theory that I was already dead and living in hell as terrible things continue to happen. I suppose I could jump off a bridge to test out my theory but then as my luck goes it wouldn't be good I'm sure.
Well guys when you have the time say one for me.
I'll keep you all updated and if you don't hear back from me, well things just didn't turn out very good.
I've enjoyed it here Y'all so take care now. I'll be back if I can.
Greg
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God Bless Smitty and his family.
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Hey man. Praying from here. I want you to stick around!
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keep us updated we all do care
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I'm sorry to hear this news. Seems a guy should get a break between crisis. Miss June would want you to buck-up and beat this thing. At this house, we'll be praying she gets her wish!
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Okay here's some more rambling from me.
Here's the latest on my health problem. They went in through an artery in my right arm yesterday morning with the intentions of putting in a stent in my heart artery if needed but decided they couldn't do it at the Piedmont hospital in Fayetteville GA. The artery they call the widow maker was 100% plugged up and the heart had rerouted blood by a different direction into the left side of my heart. Anyway that's the way they explained it to me it may not be exactly right since they had given me a pretty good sedative.
They called me earlier today and gave me instructions on what to do for my appointment for the up coming procedure in Atlanta.
Right now I'm so tired I can hardly drag around. If I live through this I got a lot of work to be done on other parts of my body that really went downhill in the past year and a half caring for June through her illness.
I've got two teeth that have broken off that I didn't get fixed because I didn't want to leave June alone that long. The bone spurs on my heels have gotten worse and I can't hardly walk without some thick inner soles in my shoes. Fixing any of this now would be like replacing wheel bearing on a car with a blown engine. I'll wait and see if I live though the next procedure which they call installing a "Chronic Total Occlusion Stent"?? If that works then I'll start doing other maintenance work on the rest of my body.
The only good thing about all this is my youngest son and I that have been on the outs the last year or so have set aside our stupid differences at June's request on her dying bed. We really can't remember what our riff started over in the first place. We talked for a long time on the phone tonight and he wants me to come to Seattle to live with him and his wife when I get back on my feet. That was the best present I could have ever hoped for that he would want ME to come and live with him. I wouldn't put that burden on him and his wife though. While I can take care of myself now but in less than 18 years I'll be 90 years old if I live that long and it's a rear task to care for someone when they're completely disabled. It was all I could do to care for June during her illness. It was the hardest thing I've ever done.
Many nights I never slept a wink while June moaned and cried from the pain. I can't put in words the pain she went through. That damn disease when it goes to the bones is like nothing anyone can imagine. There is no relief. Besides having it in the lungs it had eaten up 2 vertebras in her neck that they replaced with a cage with 2 steel rods and screws, it was in her thighs and pelvis also. I was giving her 8 mg of Dilaudid every 2 hours and 60 mg of Morphine every 4 hours for the pain and it seemed to have no more effect than aspirin. She begged me to give her gun to her on several occasions when the pain was at it's worse.
They told me I need to have someone to bring me home when I leave the hospital after the procedure that I couldn't drive myself and I told them I'm here in Georgia alone and would have drive myself or get a ride from Uber. The woman said she didn't think they would allow me to get a ride with Uber. I ask her what's the difference who took me home? Whether it's a friend or a Uber driver? The lady I was talking to said she would check and see and get back with me.
Like I said in my earlier post my oldest son in Knoxville has his hands full caring for his wife who has stage 4 brain cancer and can't be here with me and my youngest son lives 3,000 miles away and he's already spent a fortune on plane tickets visiting June the past year so he can't be here either. My Mom is 90 and while she's sharp as a tack mentally she just can't come down here it's to far and I wouldn't want her to even try and my sister is taking care of my Mom so she can't be here either. I really don't see what the problem is how I get home from the hospital.
Well that's about it for tonight. I've rambled on enough.
One other thing...4205raymond I'm sorry to hear that your wife is battling for her life at this time. I sincerely hope it's not cancer she's battling. I'll say a prayer for her but my prayers seem to have no effect these days.
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Your prayers may have more effect than you think Smitty. Those of your friends here too. June suffers no more as she walks with The Savior, and you're still kickin'.
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I just don't know what to say other then I'm sorry that you're going through all this and I'll keep praying for you.
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Smitty, my wife Diane would be honored to receive your prayers. She was supposed to be discharged after six days with the third bout of Pneumonia but she was too weak to even stand or get in wheel chair with two people helping. After waiting three days they finally got her into rehab in same hospital. They removed a three inch tumor with a laser that was protruding into her windpipe in upper left lobe. They went down her windpipe with the laser at Westchester Medical Center about a year ago and got what they could. Radiation or Chemo are no goes because of many factors. Last cat scan a few days ago showed no fresh growth at tumor site. I have been her caregiver since she had a stroke and fell really hard on her knees over four years ago. Her mind is 100% but her body has been thru hell with so many set backs since the stroke. Presently a lot has fallen on my daughter who has to drive over two hours from further upstate. My hearing is terrible on the phone.
I have not been able to see her for 11 days because I never had the two vaccine shots. I took her a bunch of clean clothes today and almost lost it at the front entrance over their no vaccine no entrance policy. I know it is my fault that I can't visit her and the guilt is overwhelming. I never interfeared with the rest of my family getting the vaccine but I feel I have a right to choose. We are loosing so many of our Freedoms.------------------------Ray
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