Tuesday night I called 911 for the first time in my life. I'd like to never do that again. My husband and I were at my parents' house for my Dad's birthday. We had eaten dinner, opened gifts, eaten dessert and were getting ready to leave. Earlier that day my husband said he twisted the knee that he had ACL surgery on before I met him (10+ years ago). I didn't see him favoring it. But he stood up to get ready to go home and within about 2 mins mom noticed he looked bad. He grabbed his leg below the knee and he seemed to almost faint. He said a force was pushing him down (he explained that after). But during the time he said that his body hurts all over. We got him a chair. Mom got him a wet washcloth for his forehead and it went downhill from there. His head got closer to the table and he seemed to become unresponsive for a few seconds at which time I called 911.
I can't go through more details here. I feel it's a bit too invasive of his privacy. But I will say he had low blood sugar (weird after eating right?) and low blood pressure. The EMT's had him drink juice and they filled out information. Then they took blood sugar again. That went up but blood pressure went down. They didn't have to take him to the ER as he wasn't classified emergent at this point. He refused to let any of us take him. He couldn't walk well but my dad helped me get him home. He said his knee/ leg hurt - a 15 on a scale of 1-10. My mom stayed the night with me and she was with him for a few hours after I went to work on Wednesday. That day was awful (another post coming). But I ended up going with him to the Dr that afternoon. His doc doesn't work Wednesdays so we saw the nurse practitioner. We didn't get any answer. But they drew bloodwork. They have no baseline bloodwork for him. We got an X-ray of the knee. Not that it will show anything as I'm sure it's not bone, but that's the prerequisite for any other test. Then he went to see his chiro. She did some acupuncture and electric stem stuff (I'm not sure as she hasn't done that on me yet). . . then she massaged his calf and hit a spot that about sent him out of the chair and made him pee his pants. Ha! Since then he's had nothing but improvement and he saw her again today.
I'm not convinced this had to do with the knee/leg. Maybe it was an extreme pain reaction? The body sure does different thing in response to pain. But there have been other things I've noticed that have made me wonder how to connect the dots. Maybe there is a diabetic/blood sugar issue. I'm not sure how long it will take us to get answers.
In the meantime I keep an eye on him, much to his dismay. I'm making sure he eats right. I worry if I can't get in touch with him. I'm really scarred from that experience. Probably because I don't have answers and I know from experience that I may not get answers. That's the hard part. I sure wish that hadn't happened at my parents' house as they've dealt with a lot with him and my mom is traumatized from all of it. His family never sees any of these issues unfortunately. ( that whole in-law thing sucks I must say)
This week has been nothing but bad things for me unfortunately. My stress and exhaustion level are at an all time high.
More to come. . .
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