Ok I really don't know what day it is...

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Mom called the office at about 1:30 and said she had the runs and she was having a hard time getting around in the wheel chair.  So I asked if she wanted me to come home.  She said no, but I said I would come home and check on her and then go back to work when Roger and Helen arrived which was suppose to be about 2:30.  I got home and within a minute or two I knew something was wrong.  I started to go for the BP cuff and told her to set back on the couch and then she started in the classic systems of her BP dropping out the bottom.  I pushed her back into the couch so she wouldn't fall onto the floor and she went out like a light.  I grabbed the cuff and put it on.  Her BP was 65/32.  Grabbed a Monster out of the fridge woke her up and had her drink a 1/4.  Then took her BP again in 10 minutes.  Also checked her Blood Sugar, it was 120, so not a problem with too low Blood Sugar.  Her BP came up a little 70/55.  More Monster, and a Call to Kaiser Advise Nurse.  So after being on the phone with the advise nurse and keeping mother a wake, it's determined that I can take her to ER instead of having an ambulance dispatched.  She gets to ER and her BP is 90/50, unequal pupils, and her left pupil isn't contracting.  They do a CT of the brain, her pulse/ox level is low, they do a blood gas, she has hypoxia, so then it's of to CT for a scan of her lungs. She gets back and they put her on oxygen and run fluids through her for dehydration  Now the truly long waiting occurs.  The Nurse is able to tell us at 5 that all the test look good but that she has a UTI, and she is dehydrated.  They run 2 bags of fluid, give her antibiotics and want to admit her.  6pm comes and goes, no doctor to do the admit yet, so I ask about getting her food since she hasn't had anything since 7 am.   They will check...7 comes and goes, no doctor and no food.  So now it is 8 and still no doctor and no food.  Now I get seriously in someones face.  Oh and did I mention that all through out this now 6 hour period her alarm on the oxygen and BP is going off about every 10-15 minutes.  Finally it got so bad I just hit the silence the alarm button, just like they did every time they bothered to come in and look.  Finally they get permission for her to eat dinner and bring her a meal it 8:30.  The Doctor shows up at 8:50 and says that he wants to admit her and monitor her.  Her BP by this time is 190/91.  So finally at 11:45 I am home after getting mom into a room.

Tomorrow they will do some tests and will most likely release her tomorrow afternoon[evening.

I really want to be done now!