Wednesday, July 15, 2009

How Not To Deliver Bad News

It's 8:00 AM and my son-in-law calls. The first thing out of his mouth is "don't worry she's fine but Chantel is in the ER. " I'm not the type of person who swears but I wanted to say WTF. It all began last Monday when she started to feel sick. She had called off of work every couple of days that week and had even gone to the doctor.
Friday night, her husband gave her the bed and slept in the living room, he doesn't know what woke him but at 3:30 AM he did and went to check on his wife. She was shivering really bad and he had noticed her lips turning purple. Lucky for them, they live about 10 minutes from the nearest hospital.
When he brought her in with the chills, they placed about 8 heavy blankets on her, in less than 20 minutes, she spiked a fever of 104 (this went on for hours). It took them 12 hours to finally figure out what was wrong. They found a kidney stone when they did a cat-scan. My daughter has chronic back pain and told them that so they never thought about her kidneys when she complained about her back. Apparently, the stone had been there a while and the toxins started to build up which affected her kidneys and then her blood. After the surgery and medication, she is still in the hospital fighting off the infection along with low white cell count, high blood pressure, fever and various other ailments.
The hospital food taste like crap so between my husband and I, my sister-in-law and niece, we've been bringing in home made food for her meals.
Well, I have to sign off and head to the hospital. I'll check in a bit later... Have a Great Day all:)

1 comment:

  1. Sending get well soon wishes to your daughter and hope she is home soon!
    What scary thing to have happened.
    best wishes,
    Nan

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