Some of you will remember a TV show called “That Was the Week That Was.”\u00a0 Well, this was that week, only without the laughs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My husband has a chronic condition, myasthenia gravis.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He has always been a very strong, very active person and not thrilled with the limitations the myasthenia has caused.\u00a0\u00a0 So he pushes himself.\u00a0\u00a0 Last week, while out on the land moving some boards around, he felt bad–had not felt well for several days–and he suddenly passed out.\u00a0\u00a0 He figured hot day, dehydration, maybe salt depletion, and came in and ate some salty stuff and drank a lot of water.<\/p>\n
To make the long story short, things got worse, not better, with some very clear cardiac symptoms, and yet I could not drag him to the hospital (he’s heavier than I am and he was still conscious.)\u00a0 He did make an appointment with his doctor.\u00a0 So to\u00a0 this week: Tuesday I drove him to the doctor, and a good thing too, because the doctor sent him to the ER.\u00a0\u00a0 Where they found he was severely anemic (that passing out was, um, due to bleeding out about half his blood over the previous several days.\u00a0 The cardiac symptoms were related to the severe anemia.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s been a busy few days, which he spent in the hospital and I spent on the road to and from, or at home feeding and mucking out horses and dealing with the big storms that appeared for this occasion.\u00a0 (Thunder! Lightning!\u00a0 High winds!\u00a0 Hail!\u00a0 Rain…wonderful rain!)<\/p>\n
Upshot:\u00a0 He had transfusions (it took four doctors and his wife to convince him.)\u00a0\u00a0 He had tests.\u00a0 He had endoscopy.\u00a0 When the biopsy comes back, the surgeon will figure out a plan.\u00a0 Depending on the biopsy results and the surgeon’s plan and so on,\u00a0 I may or may not make any of the conventions I planned to attend.<\/p>\n
He’s back home for the time being, sprung from the hospital this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 The transfusions made him slightly pinker (they didn’t try to replace everything he’d lost, just enough.)\u00a0\u00a0 My copy edits\u00a0 arrived in the meantime.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of starting work on them immediately,\u00a0 I went for a walk with him (he was very eager to get outside again–and it was a gorgeous post-storm day.)\u00a0\u00a0 We have a lot to be thankful for and we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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