The shindig

So the story goes that this all started on Tuesday. Actually it was more like Monday night. Grandpa became sick during the night with chills, vomiting, diarrhea. Fun stuff. On Tuesday morning, Grandma called Mom (aka Pat. aka the oldest sister. aka - okay I'll stop now). Mom came over and Grandpa's temp was really low. I believe it was 93. They thought the thermometer was not reading it properly. But it was. Grandpa was just cold. His lips were kind of a blue tint and he was really weak. Mom called the hospital and they told her to send him in via ambulance because they wouldn't be able to transport him themselves if he was so weak.

Grandpa knew he was pretty sick and went along with this plan, or just didn't feel like arguing with Pat. He arrived at the hospital and they started running a myriad of tests (whoa, big word alert. Sorry I'm feeling a little doogie houserish apparently. How the F do you spell doogie?). Anyway...we were told many a different story, some have been disproven and some are just hanging out there as theories, yet to be confirmed or disproven. Initially we were told that Grandpa's blood pressure was dangerously low, he possibly had a heart attack, had internal bleeding, pneumonia, sepsis, and his kidney was failing. (Kidney - remember Gpa only has one). So things were kind of scary at this point. Mom and Grandma were kind of clinging on to each other for dear life. After the ER doc put the fear of God in mom, she had a nice conversation with Grandpa's nurse who made her feel a little better. She explained that the kidney failure was acute - which means it's not permanent or forever, it's likely the result of an underlying illness. Mom felt at least better enough to head home for a quick change of clothes and a fam update.

Just so you don't have to go searching for the latest conclusions on the above scary diagnoses - I'll give you a quick rundown. As of now they say there was actually no internal bleeding, they don't think he had a heart attack, his lungs sound clear - which means no pneumonia. However, Grandpa's blood pressure was incredibly low his kidney was failing and his heart was not working at full capacity, all of which are symptoms of sepsis.

That is basically what went down and how he wound up in the hospital. I'll recap the last few days in the next post.