Day 4. Starting Over at Houston Methodist.
Created: 2023-02-27
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2023-02-21 (Tuesday) - Much better Hospital, but much more cautious protocols.
- Sedated Melissa came in sedated, they let me stay in the room until 11:00, but kicked me out. I said, "I can't sleep here?" -- they said only in extreme situations. I looked at my wife, and back at her, and said, "My wife is in the CCU and had CPR for an hour, how much more extreme do we need?" She chuckled and said, basically it's for if you're making end of life decisions and she's stable. Go to a Hotel. I went next door to the Marriott (with the help of security escorting me).
- Rounds Since I was there for Morning Rounds, I got to meet each of the group of specialists, answer questions, and validate their assumptions. It was so nice that they took down data that wouldn't get lost. When I said something, they looked up her records and validated it. They interrogated me, and compared it to other things. And asked me about her prior procedures to double-check how technical/trustworthy I was. And they asked others that testified on what happened as well. I loved their skepticism/validation.
- EEG They had let Melissa off sedation by mid-day -- but not off the vent. I was asking her questions and it almost all came to "please get me off the vent". The nice tech braided her hair (after 3 days, she liked that, and it took him time to untangle it). She passed (brain function normal), when he asked her things like:
- Are you Melissa Every? Yes
- Were you born on Feb 18th? No
- Were you born on March 18th? Yes
- Are you at home? Yes <- not a good answer (confusion). But she just came off sedation. I told her she was at the Hospital.
- She sort of went into a daze after that -- just burned out, lightly sedated... she caught me looking at her and crying and she started to cry, so I stopped that, and instead explained what had happened to her, and that she was going to be fine. She'd done this before. And she seemed to get some of that.
- Replace everything They took our her Foley, about every line, and wire, and slowly replaced them with better solutions. Like they took out a femoral line and replaced it with a PIC (which can exist longer without infection). They would come and turn her every few hours to avoid bed sores (the other place didn't). They had stricter protocols, like they wouldn't MRI her until she could be responsive enough to follow directions and speak back. Maybe tomorrow. Or the next day.
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