i swear, it's been that kind of day!

[starshadow_rivaulx]

Bad news: Ramon goes hypoglycemic around 12nn. Glucose is 20mg/dl, WTF!

Good news: Remain calm. Administer first aid. Walk woozy husband to car and get him to ER.

Good news: We get the sweet doctor from one of Ramon's last visits. Glucose reads at 49 mg/dl. Glucose solution administered via hepalock, wait for one hour.

Funny: Ramon starts to joke around and generally tease the nursing staff. We are obscenely cheerful for patients in an ER.

Best news: After one hour, Ramon's blood glucose a normal 129 mg/dl. We are discharged, to the tune of Php 2,000, not bad.

Icky: Student nurse pulled out hepalock from Ramon's vein without having the cotton ball ready to squish on top of wound. See Ramon's blood spurt onto ER floor!

Late lunch at Jollibee. All is well now. Obviously will be talking to Ramon's cardio - but not just yet. Have to deliver Dad to a party and the maid to her house to pick up some stuff. Whee!

Comments

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry your day was so stressful! Hopefully you'll have a nice, quiet Sunday to make up for it.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

I'm all for the nice, quiet Sunday. The day actually was less stressful than it sounds - it makes a difference when you know you can do something, and have experienced the situation before.

Luckily, I didn't see the flying blood bit...I got the story after I asked if the splat on the ER floor belonged to my husband. Poor student nurse who pulled out the hepalock turned a wee bit green around the gills, but recovered quickly. Good on her!

Thanks for the well-wishes, dearling! ::hugs::

[kracken.livejournal.com]

*Hugs you*

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

::hugs you back::

A case of all's well that ends. Have made sure hubby has had liquid snack to tide him over till the morning, and will check his glucose later.

[caerfree.livejournal.com]

Ack! Scary. That makes for an exciting beginning of the weekend huh?

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

Yup, talk about hoyay! Thankfully, everything ended well!

[telemicus]

Urg, hypoglycemia not good. Hope he is doing better now

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

Well...he had another hypoglycemia episode this morning. BUT! After getting a serving of Glucerna SR down his throat in small sips (spiked with two teaspoons of brown sugar), we got over that hill in about fifteen minutes.

Today was marked by me making sure he had proper snacks - since he doesn't eat much during mealtimes. He had fun, being allowed to drink one can of regular Coke, and was his usual self for the rest of the day; he even came to the mall with me and we took things in baby steps.

His bedtime glucose reading was high enough to assure me he won't have morning hypoglycemia, but not so high as to be in the danger zone. God is good, yes, he is!

^.^