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so if you follow me on twitter, you'll know what's been up with me recently. honestly, i don't do anything except take care of mema and fold clothes and read and text some people. i'm so boring.
anyway.
yesterday my dad went to the hospital. he has this. (i can't pronounce it. also do not click that if you have a problem with eyes.) and thursday night and subsequently yesterday morning, he was unable to talk because his tongue was swollen and then starting having trouble swallowing so he called in to work and called his neurologist. they told him to go to the ER immediately, so they did. then they admitted him because if he was going to be on the steroid, he'd have to be monitored. his neurologist came by last night while my sister and i were there and told us that he'd ordered a CAT scan to rule out him having a tumor and that he was upping all his meds and continuing the prednisone.
this afternoon while my other sister and i were visiting and taking them new clothes and whatnot, they came back and said that the results of the CAT scan were that he had a blood clot in his lung but no tumor. then he had an ultrasound on his legs so they could see if the muscle problem and swelling he was having was what threw the clot. and it was.
so now he's also on a blood thinner that he has to be monitored for and it's taken precedence over his other stuff.
we don't know when he'll be home.
he's basically had this MG since he started radiation and we only caught it and had a neurologist check him out because his eye was basically non-functioning and he was having migraines.
ugh.
so jamie and i are taking care of mema by ourselves and she won't sleep and we are having the worst time dealing with her.
and it's only day two of the hospital visit. yeesh.
also, tomorrow is daddy's birthday. so we bought some funny cards and a cupcake and are going to take it up there to him tomorrow.
we aren't having a great time but it could be worse, i guess. he could be incapacitated by the muscle problem. he could have died from the blood clot if they hadn't found it incidentally on his CAT scan.
so that's where we are. back and forth to the hospital in the next big town over, my mom spending the night there with my dad because he has the memory of a goldfish and can't really do much himself, and me and jamie watching mema and basically having the worst time of it since she won't listen to either of us or even sleep.
ugh again.
and my mom called my sister just now and basically said all the wrong things and now i'm super pissed off. i can't even deal.
i'm going to watch the hockey game and pretend that my entire life isn't being determined by other people and that things don't suck.
yay.
Also posted at Dreamwidth. Comment wherever.
anyway.
yesterday my dad went to the hospital. he has this. (i can't pronounce it. also do not click that if you have a problem with eyes.) and thursday night and subsequently yesterday morning, he was unable to talk because his tongue was swollen and then starting having trouble swallowing so he called in to work and called his neurologist. they told him to go to the ER immediately, so they did. then they admitted him because if he was going to be on the steroid, he'd have to be monitored. his neurologist came by last night while my sister and i were there and told us that he'd ordered a CAT scan to rule out him having a tumor and that he was upping all his meds and continuing the prednisone.
this afternoon while my other sister and i were visiting and taking them new clothes and whatnot, they came back and said that the results of the CAT scan were that he had a blood clot in his lung but no tumor. then he had an ultrasound on his legs so they could see if the muscle problem and swelling he was having was what threw the clot. and it was.
so now he's also on a blood thinner that he has to be monitored for and it's taken precedence over his other stuff.
we don't know when he'll be home.
he's basically had this MG since he started radiation and we only caught it and had a neurologist check him out because his eye was basically non-functioning and he was having migraines.
ugh.
so jamie and i are taking care of mema by ourselves and she won't sleep and we are having the worst time dealing with her.
and it's only day two of the hospital visit. yeesh.
also, tomorrow is daddy's birthday. so we bought some funny cards and a cupcake and are going to take it up there to him tomorrow.
we aren't having a great time but it could be worse, i guess. he could be incapacitated by the muscle problem. he could have died from the blood clot if they hadn't found it incidentally on his CAT scan.
so that's where we are. back and forth to the hospital in the next big town over, my mom spending the night there with my dad because he has the memory of a goldfish and can't really do much himself, and me and jamie watching mema and basically having the worst time of it since she won't listen to either of us or even sleep.
ugh again.
and my mom called my sister just now and basically said all the wrong things and now i'm super pissed off. i can't even deal.
i'm going to watch the hockey game and pretend that my entire life isn't being determined by other people and that things don't suck.
yay.
Also posted at Dreamwidth. Comment wherever.