Well NOW I've got something to say

[Guest guest]

Ok Courage, you wanted someone with something to say and now I've got a story

for you!

I've been a little out of touch this week with you guys AND with Grandma because

I came

down with the flu on Thursday.

So yesterday around 1pm I get a call from my mother saying that Bob (grandma's

husband)

called my step-dad and said Grandma was very unresponsive and he (Bob) was

wondering

if he should call 911. (don't ask me why he didn't just come downstairs and get

me, I will

NEVER understand that old man!) So I ran upstairs to assess the situation and

was

confronted with a pretty scary sight.

Grandma was on her back on the couch with her eyes open, mouth hanging open,

breathing in short shallow breathes, and doing this little twitchy thing every

once in a

while with her arms and hands bent up on her chest in a tight claw-like

position. She

would not respond to touch or to to anyone speaking to her. Or yelling in her

face which

is what I tried. She was obviously breathing but when I tried to find a pulse I

couldn't find

one in wrist OR neck. So at that point we decided to call the ambulance. My

mother

arrived just as the ambulance did and she rode in with them and Bob and I

followed

behind. When the paramedics took her vitals her BP was 90/52 and her pulse was

60.

Normally her BP is practically perfect at about 120/70. At this point I was

pretty scared.

The last time I saw a person look like that with a BP and pulse like that was my

dad just a

few hours before he passed away.

By the time I arrived at the hospital Grandma was SLIGHTLY more alert and you

could get a

smile and an occasional " yes " or " no " to a question but her words were very

slurred and

quiet. She quietly allowed a CAT scan, a chest x-ray, several blood draws, and

a foley

catheter. I mention that because normally she would be crying and having a

screaming fit

about all of that. As the time wore on Grandma began to get more and more alert

and

therefore more and more aggitated. Every test came back completely normal, she

wasn't

even dehydrated as far as her blood work was concerned, I wanted to smack the

nurse for

saying that in front of her! ;-) She didn't have a heart attack, she didn't

have a stroke, she

had no infections, THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH HER! By 7pm she was cussing me

out as usual. Which was quite a treat for my mom to see since she really never

believed

me that Grandma did that. ;-) In fact at one point Grandma looked at me and

said very

loudly " OH JUST SHUT UP! " and my mom was so shocked she piped in and said " Don't

you

talk to my daughter that way! " it was pretty funny.

We got her home, she ate a tiny bit of dinner, and slept through the night.

This morning

she is completely back to her normal except that she seems a bit sweeter than

usual.

WHAT THE HECK????

So theres a story for ya! ;-)

Emma

[Guest guest]

Wow, that is quite a story! What a weird thing. At

least your mom got another dose of grams though, so

all was not lost.

Engles

SEIU-UHW Shop Steward

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