Pretty Crappy Week

My wife is having a pretty crappy week now. On Tuesday she broke a crown while eating dinner. At about 4 AM on Wednesday she woke up (pretty amazing that she could) with her blood sugar at 43. She stayed home on Wednesday feeling not so well (pretty normal when she's had a low-blood sugar episode. Then on Wednesday evening she started experience nausea and vomiting (but no pain otherwise).

On Thursday morning she announced that we were going to the hospital. She figured she had the flu or something and she knew she'd get terribly dehydrated if she didn't get treated soon. So off we went. We arrived at the emergency room at about 7:20 AM. Amazingly we got right into an exam room and with S running a temperature of 102, they began to give her IV fluids to rehydrate her along with some anti-nausea drugs. They drew blood and urine samples and gave her some Tylenol (you don't want to know where) to bring her fever down. It was definite that S had some sort of infection, and given her history with the pancreatitis, the doctors wanted her admitted to the hospital (that was the long part - S didn't actually get into a regular hospital room for another 12 hours on account that the hospital was full).

She's feeling much better now and the infection is under control. The gastroenterology docs have ruled out - sort of - that this is not a pancreatitis/bile duct episode in itself, but could be S's body thinking the stents placed in her bile duct last month is a foreign object (which it is) and triggering the infection. And now they're keeping her in the hospital longer because the infection my be affecting her heart.

So that's where we're at with that.

The other bummer is that one of my coworkers worked his last day with the company on Thursday (well, maybe "worked" is too strong a word for what he did on Thursday) and I wasn't able to be there for his sendoff. He has been a good friend; we enjoyed many lunchtime conversations over various topics, including religion. I will miss those talks, but I hope to at least keep it up through email.

It's gotta get better.