Well we are still at home. I have managed to stay awake and watched him like a hawk. His O2 has remained at 84 despite him being on his oxygen all night. I have also put to use my BP kit that I havent used since I quit nursing after I had our youngest son. It has been showing his BP is also on the low side. I havent threatend anyones lives though I have been seeing red all night. I dont know if it is our State laws or just this hospitals rules, but on admission intothe ER they had him sign a contract basically stating that he knew that the ER wasnt a replacment for his personal doctor, and that if he wasnt 3/4 of the way dead, or they couldnt conclusively find what the probkem was they arent accountable for anything. And that with out his doctors concent, or directive they werent going to get into extensive tests to find out what was wrong either. I will have to get it out after while and post what it exactly says. But for one reason or another they have pushed this off as a chronic problem,even though this has happend with in the last two days. Our doctor is out of town (of coarse), other wise I would have went to her instead of the ER. So making a long story short they didnt Immediatly see what was the problem, but since they did have our doctors orders they didnt look further into it. They also refused to give him a portable oxygen tank, and the ambulance wont take him to a hospital out of county with out the direct orders of our pyshician. So we are officially stuck right now. I knew right off the bat that they woulod refuse to transfer him to a different hospital. And in dealing with them through work, and personally I knew that they were going to refuse to run every test they could with out our Doctors orders.But I never thought they would just kick him out in the shape. I have also been debating if we could make it to the Grand Junction Hospital with out him totally crashing before we got there with out the portable tank. I am certian we cant do that, it has snowed all night long, and we have several inches of new snow on the ground.Nit that it bothers me, but I am doubting that traffic will move fast enough to get him there with out making things worse. He doesnt have strep, he was tested for it a few days after I was treated for it and he was clear. However he does have a lot of heart problems in his family He had a Aunt that died the end of this last summer because her heart hardend and then failed. That is one of my biggest worries. But I am 95% sure he has a blood clot some where in his lungs that wasnt caught in the five minute cat scan they did last night. Right now I am thinking I am going to have to pray that whatever doctor is on call today for ours is going to be someone who is either in the same office so they have his chart ready, or one that doesnt have the God complex going that the doctors we had to deal with last night did. I really wished there was a fast way to get him to another hospital last night, but he is just to weak and I was afraid of trying to take him out in the blizzard with out any oxygen to keep him half way stable the whole trip. Now that it is morning I can call around and hopefully find a doctor with a brain, and get him some help out side the darn hospital ER. If I took him back there I would only be further stressing him. And knowing our luck he would end up like that one lady here a few months ago that died in the ER waiting room. She sat out there coughing up blood and they resfused to let her get in. Her family kept trying to get her help by calling 911. And they told the family that since they were already in the hospital it wasnt a emergency. I cant remember were that was at but I am sure some of yall remember it.Anyone thanks for your suggestions, and hopefully I can post you guys with some good news today.
