Update on Stephen: When I left Stephen this early evening, his blood sugar was stable for at least 9 or so hours even off of the IV fluid. He was still as confused as a little bedbug but there were some lucid moments as the day wore on. He had still not been seen by the doctor that would be his doctor after the night shift doctor left work. She was still busy making rounds hospital-wide. A nurse practitioner this morning had apologized for the offense of the night shift doctor and had contacted the other doctor. She had the IV discontinued so that accuchecks could be done every hour to determine whether Stephens sugar was going to bottom out as I had asked for. She saw the merit in that suggestion and also with discharge back to the nursing home today if the doctor taking over would agree to it. As I have said, the doctor is still yet to see him yet she took it upon herself to admit him to the hospital sight unseen. He was officially admitted to the hospital late this afternoon and transfered to the bone and joint building there at Methodist North simply because it is a specialty unit and the nurses there have the needed time to do his accuchecks every hour. Though he is stable now with his sugar, I have it figured that they will make sure they get as much money as they can from the insurance company by keeping him throughout the night til morning (or longer if they can). I have told them all that I plan to notify the insurance company next week of the unnecessary admission. Stephen continued to say words repeatedly over and over like a little polly parrot until he would find another word (or make up a word) to repeat over and over for much of the night, morning, and early afternoon. Once, I tried to get him onto something else and said Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle when he suddenly stopped and looked at me with the most serious and concerned look in the world and said He DID??? I couldnt help but fall out laughing at my Prince. Bless his little confused self! I played Terry MacAlmons beautiful Christian praise CD that I have on my phone and he and I would sing together with Terry. We were also singing other Jesus songs. It was awesome to see someone thinking that we were still in the 1960s yet remembering the words perfectly to songs about The LORD! His flesh mind was confused due to the urinary tract infection but his spirit was very much well and intact! That is a work of The Holy Spirit! His brother Ken and his beautiful wife Tami called Stephen and he got to talk to both of them. He loved that! After the call, he started calling for Ken. He then called loudly for his sons by name to tell them that Ken was on the phone. He would point to an invisible phone on the wall that Ken had called him on. He was truly actively hallucinating during the night and day today. He saw a dog more than once in the room. He looked up and saw our little deceased kitty cat, Tums, on the ceiling. He would call me Nelda (his cousin that he loves so much) more than once. Twice I told him I was not Nelda. He then said Denise??? :) He called for a woman today named Linda so I cross-examined him ;) to see if that was the name of an old girlfriend from before we would have ever known one another and he said NO! :) When he was being turned by two patient aides in the hospital room, he hollered BONITA! MAKE SURE I DONT FALL OFF OF THE BED! (So I guess I must be good for something! :) ) These are just a thimble-full of examples of just how very confused my Prince was due to this urinary tract infection. He has had some confusion since November and I am convinced this has been caused by the full head radiation treatments that he had in November to destroy the five tumors on the dura of his brain (an adverse effect from full head radiation treatments), but this of now is surely caused by the urinary tract infection. I have seen this so often in patients when I worked in the nursing home. Urinary tract infections (and constipation!) would send them into greatly confused states. As Jesus heals the urinary tract infection, I expect this to be resolved. I had a mini-dream yesterday morning and I was viewing (in the dream) a massive amount of skin breakdown on Stephen as a result of being in the bed so much with his adamant refusal to stay off of his back in the bed. I have never seen any breakdown on him at all but today, due to the dream, I took a good look as he was turned on his side and there it was: a small skin break at his coccyx area. Please pray that Jesus will heal this and that we can get him to stay off of his back so much in the bed. Please do. Have you ever looked at someone you love with all of your heart and melt within as you wish you could make all things so new and well for them and not be able to do it? Oh, how it hurts. Oh, how it hurts! ~ I am home now and totally exhausted. I had worked Thursday night til morning and got maybe less than 2 hours sleep when I was called by the nursing home about Stephens morning sugar crisis and headed out to see him, left late, and had maybe 2 hours of sleep before getting up to dress for work last night. I was so tired. Then came the news that Stephen was having to be sent to the hospital and I had to call in at my work. The supervisor was so sweet and kind to me. She told me to get going. I made it to the hospital last night before he got there. Did not leave til maybe an hour or so ago. Believe it or not, Stephen was wide awake all night long and all morning until finally getting to nap when he got to his hospital room in the comfortable hospital bed. What a night we had but we were together. Joined at the hip is how Stephen has always described us because we have always been together until these last almost 3 months. Even apart, my heart is with him. I know that Jesus is going to give him such sweet sleep tonight. I hope that He will give it to me, too. I wont be at Church tomorrow because I will be with him if they do keep him overnight tonight (which I do think they will do in order to rake in insurance bucks). This has been a hard week. Lost our kitty cat, Tumbelina Joy, to death on The LORDs Day after having her since she first took her first breath 16 years ago. Had to take care of all of that with The LORDs help alone and was calling out to The LORD during it to keep my heart going without a heart attack. Then this with my handsome Prince. Please believe me when I tell you that the prayers you all pray for us mean more to me than I could even begin to express with with mere words. I thank you. I love you. I depend upon you. Stephen loves each one of you, too, and is so very thankful for each one of you. May The LORD Jesus Christ bless each one of you and give to you great blessings for praying for us. Now.... I think I will watch an A. A. Allen sermon and then head on to bed! Good night to all! ~ I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. (Psalm 4:8)
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 23:51:48 +0000
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