in case inquiring minds want to know....ER adventures....

[ladymandrake]

Scott had an MRI appt today for 1pm. We got there as instructed and were there for a little over an hour. The MRI was both with contrast dye and without, so it was rather lengthy. When he came back to the little changing room where I was waiting for him, he wasn't moving too well...I attributed it to the hard table for so long having to lay still...

So we go out to the truck and head home. About half way home he says he doesn't feel "quite right" and I ask if he wants to go to the ER, he keeps giving me vague answers and "I think I'll be ok" So we continue on past the hospital and get home. I get out of my side of the truck, walk over to his side, to help him out of the truck, he's REALLY woozy by this point, I unbuckle his seat belt and he swings his legs around to get out and then "falls" (when I say fall i mean he looked like he melted, didn't fall like a violent fall...more like he had jello legs) Now he's laying on the street...I can't lift him...So a pair of unrelated passers by help me get him off the ground and laying on the front seat of the truck, where I figure he'll recover and I'll get him into the house...yeah...not so much...a few minutes later he's going in and out of consciousness and I call 911...

Emts get there, start asking about food, meds, water, etc...all of which he had had like he was supposed to, we even had the A/C on in the truck so he wasn't overheated...They take his sugar and it was 86..not too bad...they decide to transport him...so we get there and there is not a single damn bed in all the ER...so he's put into a wheel chair out in the waiting room....for 3 hours... still woozy, now in MASSIVE amounts of pain and now with a headache to add to the list...

We finally get back to a room, they do a CT scan and start an IV, cause by this point he's TOTALLY dehydrated (and his sugars were probably WAY low since he hadn't eaten since breakfast) They find he didn't damage his head in the fall, and pull the results from the MRI...It shows new bulging but nothing they can admit him for...so they give him meds and send him home to follow up with his neuro doc wednesday and his family doc next week...

The conclusion....They think the combination of the heat, stress of the MRI on his back and the meds made him have a syncopal episode...They don't think it was an allergic reaction to the dye...just heat and pain

But now he's home, fed, drugged to the gills and about to go to sleep...

What we learned today...More people than just me think he's stubborn...York Hospital's ER sucks giant donkey dick...and that if you tip your water bottle too far when the patient is more laying than sitting, it could be considered waterboarding (or at least scott says so)...and there are still good people in the world who will stop and help in an emergency...

Thanks to anyone who posted words of support and love, I was reading them to him as he was trying to meditate through the pain...

Comments

[zenlizard]

Dude, stop that!

[sjo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad he's mostly okay. Sending love to you both!

[fyrephoenix.livejournal.com]

i second Zen...lots of love to you both <3

[skyethebard.livejournal.com]

Oh man! I'm so glad things are as ok as they can be (hug)

[rowanmoon69.livejournal.com]

That's it. I'm having Frankenmonkey design him a self-propelled exo suit. (The kinda funny, mostly scary part of that is that he already is!) One with lots of padding! LOL!

[autumnquest.livejournal.com]

awww, I'm glad he's okay and that is behind you hon. Maybe he'll learn not to be so stubborn.

[shades-of-nyx.livejournal.com]

Common reaction to the contrast dye.
They should have warned you.
Doh!

[fyrephoenix.livejournal.com]

^^ is correct, it's not an allergic reaction, but it is an undesirable reaction. I had something similar after my last mri, I didn't even think of it. It's just the body saying, um I don't think I like this chemical... If you need anything call <3