Rambo's Rampages...

Planned admissions are fantasies. Fan. Ta. Sies. At least the thought that they are more expedient and organized is a fantasy. A 12 hour wait in the local ER verifies that for me. Ugh. The important news is that Rambo is fine...... basically. You may remember that I said a week or so ago that he was requiring his vent more and more. It finally got to the point where it was almost full time. A few calls to pulmonary, an xray, and a rather frustrating evening waiting on call backs we were told we would most likely need to come to Hopkins immediately but not emergently, and to keep him exclusively on the vent. I have no idea what the xray actually showed because one doctor told me it looked WORSE than the one in July ( you know, when he almost died), one said there was only a tiny bit of collapse, and another said we needed to be in the hospital.  All of that being said, we ended up getting a call the next morning saying we needed to go to our local hospital an...

Here's how we started out the new year... Recognize the background? That's us back at Hopkins. We woke up first thing in the morning to find that somewhere in the wee hours of the morning his Gtube had fallen out (the balloon inside had burst) and the hole was practically closed. We tried several times to get it back in but to no avail. Thankfully we had a great outcome and this was me after they got it back in... A little fragged from very little sleep but happy we were going home! Because the hole had closed so much they had to use catheters starting at a smaller size and gradually increase the diameter until we reached the gtube size. It took a little bit of effort but all in all it added up to the shortest ER trip ever. They were very expedient this time and they even sent us home with some smaller catheters so we can do it ourselves if the need ever arises again. A++ this time, Hopkins.  *Now to our originally scheduled post, which is kind of apprapo.*  ...