Action Girl
09-24-2004, 06:46 PM
Well,
things aren't as good today as they were yesterday.. While sleeping last night Dad turned on his side and disturbed the vein in his groin where they ran the catheter for the arteriogram... He's bleeding from a hole in that blood vessel into a space outside the vein. The doctors called it a false aneurysm, meaning that a clot is forming outside the vein. There are three possibilites with this- one, they do nothing, it stops bleeding and the clot re-absorbs, two, the make it clot using a clotting agent through a needle to the site, and three- they go in and do surgery, repair the hole and stop the bleeding.
At around 11 am, they were going to do surgery, then they were "evaluating tests" and deciding, as of 6 p.m. there's still no plan of action which has my Mom and I fairly close to murdering the doctors. He just went for a catscan and then HOPEFULLY, we'll know what's next. He was in a ton of pain this morning at the site of the bleeding and they had to give him morphine. That wore off and now he's on Percoset. He's in pretty good sprits but is terribly uncomfortable because he hasn't been able to move since 11 am...
If something doesn't get resolved soon, we're going to seriously lose it. My Mom already unleashed on one doctor, and it was a cakewalk compared to what the next one will be like.
I"ll keep you guys posted.... Best case scenario he'll be home Sunday...
Please send him some good thoughts...
Stacey
things aren't as good today as they were yesterday.. While sleeping last night Dad turned on his side and disturbed the vein in his groin where they ran the catheter for the arteriogram... He's bleeding from a hole in that blood vessel into a space outside the vein. The doctors called it a false aneurysm, meaning that a clot is forming outside the vein. There are three possibilites with this- one, they do nothing, it stops bleeding and the clot re-absorbs, two, the make it clot using a clotting agent through a needle to the site, and three- they go in and do surgery, repair the hole and stop the bleeding.
At around 11 am, they were going to do surgery, then they were "evaluating tests" and deciding, as of 6 p.m. there's still no plan of action which has my Mom and I fairly close to murdering the doctors. He just went for a catscan and then HOPEFULLY, we'll know what's next. He was in a ton of pain this morning at the site of the bleeding and they had to give him morphine. That wore off and now he's on Percoset. He's in pretty good sprits but is terribly uncomfortable because he hasn't been able to move since 11 am...
If something doesn't get resolved soon, we're going to seriously lose it. My Mom already unleashed on one doctor, and it was a cakewalk compared to what the next one will be like.
I"ll keep you guys posted.... Best case scenario he'll be home Sunday...
Please send him some good thoughts...
Stacey