Well with my previous posts I was stating that Tim and I were going to the doctors on Friday because we had noticed that his blood pressure was elevated on monday when we were at walmart. So I called a medical group and had him seen on friday. When we went there high blood pressure was 220/160 and they put him on a medication and sent him on his merry way and advised us to see him in two weeks. We then went to the eye doctors because 2 weeks ago tim got something in his eye and needed to get it removed. Tim had told the doctor that he was having some blurred vision in his other eye (the one that wasn't damaged) when he checked behind the eye he told us that he was bleeding from the eye and had swelling probably caused by the blood pressure. While tim was getting his eyes taken the doctor looked at me and said "take him to yale"
so off to yale we went. The emergency room took him in right away. gave him some iv's and took some blood. They came back and said that he had fluid around his heart and kidney failure and his blood pressure was very dangerious. They did an ultrasound and it was very sad to hear. They admitted him to cardiac intensive care unit and about 20 doctors from around the building didn't know what happened and why it happened so suddenly. They didnt know which came first the blood pressure or the kidney failure. They took another ultrasound on Saturday of his kidney but the results have not come back yet. His red blood cell count is very low and they want to do a blood transfusion and it is ordered to come in sometime today. That should help give him some blood and get his strength back up. Monday he will have a kidney biopsy to determine how long the kidney failure has been happening and how to treat it. They think that right now it is some sort of nephrosis which is inflammation of kidneys which may be caused by somthing like strep throat that went unattended or something along the lines. They don't think he will need dialysis or anything that dramatic but the biopsy will show everything tomorrow. until then he is resting and anwsering the same questions over and over again. He is in good spirits today and looks more lifelike.. he was very pale yesterday because of the anemia. But because things are stable and nothing has gotten worse his morale is coming back.
I was a mess yesterday.. just hearing the words renal failure was devistating to me. I stayed over on friday from 6pm to 9pm the following day. Jakes mother went to the hospital for jake to see Tim and drove me home so I could shower. Tims parents said that I should stay home and get some sleep. I was acting very weird and kinda losing it a little bit. I told myself that I would call Tim at midnight to check in with the nurse.. I took a shower and cried very hard.. I closed my eyes in the middle of a text message and fell asleep. I didn't wake up until 8am. I am here now. The nurses are very nice, everyone is very friendly. They are very curious with Tim as this is such a weird condition. They are baffled at how this happened. We all feel like we are in an episode of house... not a good feeling. They are very accomidating and very helpful. I listen to a lot of what they have to say and ask many many questions. They probably want to shoot me in the face but I dont care. I need to ask those questions to better understand what is going on and how they are going to fix my Timothy. I just want this to be all over. I dont want him to be in any pain anymore. It put a lot of things in perspecitve with him and with me as well. I dont want this sort of thing to hapen ever again. I just want him to feel better and go home and get going on his car. So many things are running through my mind all at once. I have had severe anxiety the past couple days and I am going untreated. I dont want to be medicated because I dont want to miss anything of whats going on and I dont want to miss a doctors visit. I was upset even leaving for the night because just incase tim needed me.... even if it was just for a glass of water I wanted to be there for him.
I will be posting frequently probably to let everyone know updates. Alot of people have been calling and texting and leaving facebook messages and its really appreciated. It helps tim know that he is cared for by a lot of people.
Thanks everyone-
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