Here We Go Again...

Joe is back in the hospital - again. Yes, we went a grand total of 54 days since his realize from the last hospital visit. Here's the timeline for this stay thus far...

Friday - September 17th - Joe and I spend our day going to various doctor appointments and running errands. One of those doctor visits include blood lab work being done to determine all of his various kidney function levels. The word is not good. I get a call from the doctor saying Joe needs to be brought to the hospital Outpatient Department to receive some intravenous Lasix to relieve his kidneys. We go and that takes about three hours and we leave to go home around 7:00 pm. All is well.

Saturday - September 18th - Joe spends a miserable day of not being able to urinate. And, he's gained six additional pounds over night. The hard decision is made about 6:00 p.m. to go to the Emergency Room and have him checked out. We feel as though we know what the decision will be - admittance once again. We're right. After moving from the primary Emergency Room waiting area to another waiting room that is less crowded and more spacious, we are escorted to an examination room. It's the same room we been in before. It's the same room that Joe was in when he suffered his heart attack. Katie Jo comes to see us. See was in the er when Joe came in by ambulance after the heart attack and she recognizes him. Joe's nurse is almost familiar. She too is a rerun.

After three hours of waiting with Joe trying to not "freeze to death" under a stack of warmed blankets, numerous questions that have been asked countless times, i.e., what meds do you take, previous hospitalizations, how long has this been going on, etc., etc., etc., we are finally taken upstairs where Joe is shown his new temporary living space. We are back on 5th floor. The place we'd left 54 days ago. I began to feel as though we were in some type of time warp. How could we be here again? And, once again there were all these familiar people.

Room 500 - This is Joe's new home from Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Waahoo! He is coming home on Friday if all goes well. He's being given blood transfusions chocked full of iron. He's going to turn into Superman!