Bill's hospital stay

Thursday morning about 4:30 I heard the emergency speaker calling EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY. Just as I got to the family room, she asked "Bill, do you need help? Should I call someone?" At the same time I said, "No, I'm here now," he said, "Yes, I need help." She heard me, and cut the connection. Then I turned to Bill (who was on the floor) and asked why he said he needed help. He said he thought he should go to the hospital and have his heart checked. Since he usually doesn't want me to call anyone, I decided I'd better do what he said. (Didn't want to get him back in the chair and go back to bed, 'cause I didn't want to wake up and find him dead in the chair.)

After a few hours they said they wanted to keep him overnight for observation. About 1p.m. they got him upstairs and into bed. He was supposed to get his left shoulder x-rayed that afternoon, but never did. The next day they kept waiting for the x-rays, until someone finally decided they hadn't been taken. The nurse came in and apologized, and said she had called and they were coming up to get him so they could x-ray his right shoulder. When I told her it was his left shoulder, she looked at me and said, "Are you sure?" When I said I was, she saiid, "Well, we'll have both shoulders x-rayed."

The next morning when Trina called, they still hadn't had the x-rays taken. I got a call in the afternoon saying that if the x-ray came back negative, he would be discharged. A while later got the call to come get him.

Daniel was over helping me get stuff away from the windows so the new ones can be installed on Tues & Wed., so I told her I'd be a bit late. Daniel and I woked for a couple hours. I took him home and went on to get Bill. We were back about 7 p.m.

So, we're back to what has been our 'normal' the last few months.