My dad went back into the hospital Monday morning, it was supposed to happen Friday, but North Hills Hospital is incapable of performing the simplest of tasks without making it complicated.
Monday morning, he went in to have surgery on his hernia and the aneurysm in his upper right leg. The surgery went well. It took a little while for his pulse to return to his leg, but it did and he warmed back up and is now in the Recovery Center over at HEB.
Other than the slow return of his pulse to his leg and a nurse giving him morphine (to which my mom said, "You realize he's allergic" and a mad dash ensued) his only other episode happened this morning when his retard of a nurse stopped paying attention to his blood sugar and he passed out. My brother had just been in to see him and he said that my dad looked totally out of it and was not able to talk or anything. Just minutes after Joe left he passed out and his nurse was suddenly very interested in what was going on with him.
Hopefully they'll get a better nurse on him this afternoon and he'll be ok to go home Thursday or Friday.
Update: I found out last night my dad's blood sugar level had dropped to 18 mg/DL (normal is around 100). After my mom found out what happened, she called up my dad's nurse and gave his nurse a ear full. :) I love my mom. :) She started yelling at them telling her that my dad needs to be on a potassium drip since he won't eat while in the hospital. Of course, it took the doctor telling the nurse to put him on the drip before he did it, but my mom had a moment of "I told you so" when she found out that the hospital put him on the drip.
Of course, my mom gets over things pretty quick and by last night she was sharing kitty pictures with the nurse. As long as she's doing her job and making sure my dad's ok, my mom is cool.
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