Round two???

Here we are back at the ER. Only this time, the place is in complete lockdown for Gawd only knows what. Asking around, its not that they are inundated with dead n dyin’ Deltalamdachinkflu, but they ARE understaffed. (It is Sunday and while the sick don’t follow a schedule, the bean counters DO, and the bean counters are the ones cutting staff and the like)

Dads BP dropped over the last two days. I called the ask a nurse thingy yesterday to talk to someone better trained and with better resources about what to do. She said to drop his beta blockers to once a day and see how things went. So last night he didn’t take the beta blocker and seemed to do better. Slept better and less trouble breathing. Then he took the dose this morning, and within a couple hours his BP was precipitously low. 98/52 with a 52 bpm. My personal opinion is to remove the beta blocker all together since it seems to be the culprit in this case. Yesterday eve, after that had 12 hours to work out of his system, his BP came back up to the 117/74 that we were seeing even after his resuscitation last Saturday.

Now, what I am betting is that, instead of deleting that med from his list, they swap it out with something. Why? Because they don’t get that some people do not NEED to be medicated. Or that they don’t get a kickback or whatnot for NOT prescribing chems, so they MUST prescribe something, even if it does more damage than good. There is a good chance that when we head back home, Da is gonna take all that shit and chuck it in the trash and just do the aspirin thing. I’m good with that, but its his call. I’m only hoping that I don’t get another surprise like he dropped in our laps last weekend. At least he was IN the hospital when his ticker stopped. (10 minutes CPR and 6 hits with the paddles. ).

I’ll tell ya though, I made a personal decision this past week. When I get the chance, I will be visiting a tattoo parlor and getting a living will/DNR tattooed on my left pectoral. If shit goes south on me, I am not fighting the natural order: PERIOD. Let me go home please, not keep dragging me back into this completely upside down Asylum we call ‘reality’.