After a super fun day shopping in Brigantine, NJ and soaking up some sun on the beach, but felt very ill by late afternoon. She started running a small temperature, which kept climbing.
Mom’s temp spiked this evening to 102 and we took her to hospital in Atlantic City. What follows is a sort of raw account of the night, though it leaves a lot out (like the fight in the hallway outside of our room, the gun shot wound patient who came up and coded, and the absurd nurse we started out with until someone normal came on shift.
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Alia and I are here with her now as they do a full sepsis workup and get the antibiotics and other IVF up and running.
UPDATE 0019: Mom is doing much better on the IVF and antibiotics. Waiting for results from blood work and figure out next steps. If they want to admit mom we’ll want to transfer back to Penn which I guess is an ambulance ride down the AC Expressway. Or maybe they’ll let us go home.
UPDATE 0058: So far everything is coming back where it was; they don’t know where the fever is from. Mom is neg on COVID and flu and RSV. They want to admit so they are reaching out to transfer team to transfer Mom to Penn.
UPDATE 0145: Moms been accepted for transfer at Penn, but there are no beds available. So she’s in line for a bed there; in the meantime they will admit mom here if they can and wait until Penn calls.
UPDATE 0526: Still in the ER room… all night for Alia and I in wooden chairs. Moms temp was normal a few hours ago. Waiting for a room here where mom can wait for a room at Penn. Her ANC and WBC are too low for discharge and so we are stuck in limbo and nobody has any rooms.
UPDATE 1209: Mom is admitted to the AC hospital, though she is still in the ER hold room. Could be worse; it’s a private room with a private bathroom. The doctors today are amazing, and her nurse is wonderful. We tucked mom in after she ate breakfast and got her morning meds and Alia and I went back to the beach house to clean up, rest a little, and go from here. A lot depends on if a bed becomes available at Penn and they transfer her, or it is possible while Mom is at the AC hospital her cultures come back negative, and her ANC rises enough, and she’ll just be discharged from there and join us back at the beach house for a few more days. It’s all out of our hands for now; I have so much more to say but you’ll have to wait for the update post. I’ve been up for 30 hours straight and most of that spent in a torture chair so I’m going to take a nap. L8er
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