Hospitals again
On Monday morning, My Sweetie woke up feeling like he was just coming out of dental freezing with the partial paralysis and lack of feeling to one half of his face. He went to work that day, but called his doctor and made an appointment for that afternoon. In the course of the day, he noticed that the hand on the same side was weak and slower than the other, and he was walking with a distinct hitch in his step.
There are two main possibilities in a case like this. There is a condition called bell's palsy, which is relatively benign and totally treatable, or there is stroke. Apparently bell's palsy doesn't actually explain all of My Sweetie's symptoms.
Doctor hit the panic button and wanted to call him an ambulance, but he convinced her to let me drive him instead, and he spent the rest of the day at the hospital. They ran a CT scan, an ECHO, and some blood work, and found nothing, so they referred him to neurology. The neurologist wanted to keep him overnight for observation, but the ER doctor said it shouldn't be necessary so long as he didn't eat or drink anything after midnight and was back at the hospital first thing in the morning.
So on Tuesday I dropped him off on my way to work. They eventually transferred him to a different hospital, and following lots more waiting, he found out that they want to give him an MRI, which means he does have to stay overnight.