Day 1: July 24th,
2018 Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Barnes Hospital
We arrived in our
room at 8:30am this morning and the hooking up of his EEG began. We settled in
and eventually met the attending Neurologist to find out the plan for the next
few days. Since Barnes is a training hospital,
most doctors have Residents and Fellows that accompany them to learn alongside
and offer input. We gave our history to them both as well as the nurse practioner
(you repeat it a lot, as new nurses and doctors cycle through). We have had two
lovely nurses today, who have been attentive and compassionate.
You would think
that arriving for a 7 day stay where they induce seizures is bad enough. Ours
has already been a little more interesting. To back up, yesterday we spent the morning
in the ER as Greg had chest pains and an elevated heart rate. The tests (EKG, blood
work and CT scan of the chest) where inconclusive and we went home. These
symptoms were concerning at they were the ones that eventually put Greg in the
hospital back in February 2017 when he was diagnosed with his Lung Cancer. (We have a follow up with our oncologist next
week after we are out of the EMU, and both his oncologist and the attending ER Dr,
said to go ahead with the EMU today.) Since being admitted today his chest pain
has continued and he has started to run a mild temperature, battling a fever. No
one has any idea why these random symptoms are occurring. We have our plan to
go ahead to start decreasing his anti-seizure medicine until a seizure is
produced. I don’t know how these other symptoms come into play. What I do know
is we are in very capable hands. The neuro team and staff are the best around, top
ranked in the country. His oncologist is nearby, and any other medical needs
that arise could be taken care of as well. Please continue to pray for the
doctors, as well as Greg’s body, that we can get answers and move forward to a
stable life, or miraculous healing!
praying
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