![]() It is a Very Good Thing™ that he was wrong. He got his conversation with his nurse all mixed up in his drug-addled mind and completely misunderheard what was being explained to him. He has been light-headed and dizzy, so much so that they had to cut his 11am walk back from 150 feet to 75 feet.īased on all of his indicators, there is no possibility of his being released either today or tomorrow for love or money. He's been in and out of A-fib and back on the meds for it since then. It seems that after the successful cardioversion on Tuesday, he was able to keep a sinus rhythm only until Wednesday night. Relieved, but not as relieved as I'd like to be. Update: Well, I am much relieved after talking to Delft's nurse. I fixed the phone number in the previous post, so it is correct now. In the meantime, he truly enjoys the calls. I desperately hope that this is more the product of a combination of pain meds affecting Delft's mind, and not a real option that they are considering for him. A former health care worker with whom I am friends was astounded that they sent him home from the Congestive Heart Failure unit over the weekend prior to his surgery based on his overall condition and the problems he was having.Īnd now they want to send him home again. Five days of atrial fibrillation did number on him, and the fact that he was in very poor condition prior to the surgery only contributed to the situation we have now. This, however, was far from a perfect case. ![]() Yes, it is true that under perfect conditions a patient having the same surgery could reasonably expect to have been home long before today. I do not know who is pushing this release, but I strongly suspect the insurance company is putting the pressure on the hospital and the surgeon. Even though he badly wants to be out of this hospital, even he thinks that Monday is entirely soon enough. Yet today when I went to take Delfts a bowl of fruit from the cafeteria breakfast bar he told me he thought that they were considering exactly that. It is dangerous, it is irresponsible, and it is bad medicine. I've never taken even so much as a CPR or first aid course outside the cursory one they teach in high school driver's ed so you can save your passengers after you've screwed up behind the wheel.Įven so, I know that after major surgery you do not send someone home who has not passed a decent bowel movement, who blew out his own catheter in the middle of the night, who cannot even eat because of the nausea and what vomiting does to his split sternum, who sill has bedsores, and who be left alone for hours at a time because he cannot get out of a chair unassisted. ![]()
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