I'm sitting in Alfred Main's waiting room - Van went in for additional testing this morning. A rough night. He ended up getting two units of blood, as he was bleeding out so much of it. So they had him on oxygen when I got here this morning and would not let him stand up. However, he had a keen interest in checking email this morning and even raising his head up to a sitting position did not cause his face to go so deadly white, which it did the day before.
It'll be about an hour that he's in there.
If you are just tuning in, we were supposed to be seeing family in Kansas City, Springfield, and Rolla this weekend. He woke up with that internal concern over possible stomach flu coming on - you know that feeling? About 7, he started passing blood, and almost passed out a couple of times. Rested, would get up and try to do something, have to lay down again, would stand up and have to sit down again within a few minutes. I thought we were never going to get his clothes on so I could drive him in. Got there about 8:15. Olmsted Hospital did not have the staff on hand to do the necessary testing, it being a holiday weekend, and tranported him to St. Mary's Hospital about 10:30.
Nancy the Resource Nurse just popped out to let me know they haven't started the testing yet; Van is laying in there totally bored and trying to sleep.
Anyway, back to story <grin>. He passed out once at Olmsted Medical Center, passed out a couple of times here at St. Mary's, has had many bags of the glucose/saline solution that they give you to keep you hydrated, medication to control nausea and no food since yesterday.
They have ruled out something in the upper GI so they think it's probably going to be found in his upper intestine and related to all the Ibuprofen he's been taking for his rapier elbow. But we'll see. Maybe I'll know later this afternoon.
