Thursday morning rolled around and we went to breakfast with Beth again. By time we got back to the motel, Jason and up so we loaded up and checked out of motel. Beth and Jason were moving to the apartment and we were going home later. They stopped by the apartment Wednesday night and unloaded all the stuff in the trunk of their car. We arrived at the hospital to find Bill sitting up in a chair. He seemed to be doing well. Bill and I took turns going back to visit.
When I was out in the waiting room I got better acquainted with the young couple with the three month old baby. It was the girl’s mother who was in there. She had a lung transplant two months ago and hasn’t yet left the hospital. They thought they would have to get a new set of lungs and then the first set finally started working. She has had various other setbacks and since they won’t let the baby go in there, she hasn’t seen her new grandchild.
The lady who got the lungs ahead of Bill seems to be doing well although she isn’t making progress as quickly as Bill. Sadly, the young man (27, I think) with the massive heart attack passed away last night after we left. He had heart and other problems from birth. Thankfully, he was awake off and on during the day so his mother and wife of one year had some time with him before he left them. Beth checked and saw that the Vietnamese family was still there tonight. The 84 year old father came in two weeks ago and hasn’t waked yet. Doesn’t sound promising and his wife is terribly distraught. The girls come up with food at dinnertime every night so that she will eat something. Otherwise she just says she isn’t hungry – is lonely. One could easily write a book about the goings on in just that one waiting room.
Long about five last night when I was in with Bill he was taking some pills and next thing we knew he went into atrial fibrillation which is an irregular heart beat. His pulse shot up to 160 and the blood pressure followed suit. The doctor described it as the heart beating like jelly instead of pumping as usual. They said it often happens with surgery of the type Bill had. They administered three doses of medicine five minutes apart but it didn’t do anything. The resident came in and ordered another med and it brought it down some but not enough. A cardiologist came in and gave all the info about the cardioversion (electric shock) they were going to use as soon as an anesthesiologist became available.
We finally left there around 7:30 or so. His sister was due anytime and there was nothing more we could do. We had no idea how long it might be before the cardioversion was done. Bill had a hankering for Greek food so we tried to find a little Greek restaurant he remembered from several years ago when we were at Harborview Hospital with Clint. When we found the restaurant, it was something different and it wasn’t Greek. We drove up and down the streets of downtown Seattle looking for some Greek place but found nothing. We finally just headed back to Tacoma thinking we could go to The Pomodoro. At 8:22 I called and discovered they only served dinner until nine. So much for that. The only other place we could come up with was Spuds Pizza Parlor, a place we took Clint on several occasions. I think we’ve been there once or twice since then. We split a salad and I had a mini pizza while Bill had a submarine sandwich.
I guess it was after ten o’clock by time we got home. We unloaded the car and I fell into bed pretty quick. Even Bill was surprised that I crashed that early. I don’t know why considering all we had been through! I dozed off and on and eventually turned out the reading light. I didn’t roll out of bed until 9:45 this morning. I had a lot to do today playing catch up. I had to work on orders first and then I got to the Madrona stuff – calling vendors about door prizes. I had around 50 vendors on the list to contact. I got a hold of most of them today. It was 6:30 before I finished up what I was doing. Meantime we heard from Beth that Bill went into Afib again and again had to have the cardioversion.
At that point I stopped and fixed some dinner. After dinner I started making some personal phone calls. I checked in with Larry who said my book is ready for me to play on Sunday morning. I have talked several times today with Barbara about Madrona and other stuff. She had a computer tech checking out her computer today. She concluded that most of her problem stem from AOL which seems to have really invaded her computer. As soon as she saves what she needs she will dump that. I also called Nadine to say that my Sew Expo tickets and arrived and I got the two tickets for the Friday night special event with Nancy Zieman and Mary Mulari. Hopefully I can remember I put them in my fanny pack so that they wouldn’t get lost in the pile on the table! I called Nancy and learned that she had a really good visit with her son in prison. Hopefully she will stay well enough for another one. I had a chat with Suzanne, the person in charge of Madrona stuff.
It’s just past 12 hours since I got up this morning and it has been a LONG day. Needless to say, I didn’t make it to the Ellie “do” today. I was too tired to even get out of my pj’s much less go over there and be sociable. And I had way too much to do. I’ve had waaaay too much excitement this week but I’m glad I got as much done as I did today. I got six packages in the mail today that I haven’t even opened so I guess I’ll do that. It will be like Christmas! I guess the following verse would be appropriate in light of this week’s activities.
It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others. - Ephesians 2:10 (The Living Bible)
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