I want to apologize to anyone that I haven’t returned an email to. Some of you already know but my husband ended up in the hospital last week with an 8mm subdural hematoma (pretty much a bruise on your brain). He has fantastic teeth and went in Thursday morning for his first cavities, he was really nervous and forgot to eat breakfast. He made it through the appointment but at checkout he started to feel lightheaded and fell straight backwards, like I imagine a tree falls, hitting his head on the floor and was unconscious for several minutes. I got the call as the paramedics arrived and decided to take him to the hospital, it was a HUGE shock! After my mom arrived to watch my kids, I rushed to to the ER to find him strapped to a backboard with a neckbrace. Luckily there were no neck or spinal injuries but after the initial CT scan they thought they saw something wrong. A second CT was performed and a neurosurgeon was consulted (EEK!) and determined there was no aneurysm but there was a bleed in the front of his head caused when he hit the back of his head as hard as he did.

(after he got off the backboard, PS this was with the little point and shoot I carry in my purse)

We were then informed that he was going to be transferred to a different hospital as a precaution in case it got worse and required surgery (the second hospital has a neurosurgery unit and was only 8 miles away by ambulance). I was scared, especially after he started throwing up. I ran home to grab dinner for my momma and my boys and found him in the ICU when I arrived. I’ve never had to advocate on someone’s behalf to busy nurses, or spend hours next to a mostly sleeping person’s bedside-it was an awful way to spend two days. It took forever to get clearance from a neurosurgeon, a cardiologist (another precaution), and an internal medicine specialist to go home that we were afraid he’d be there a second night.

We finally got home and got him settled in and I waited up for my mother-in-law to bring the boys home from a day spent with out of town guests. Saturday was spent with those out of town guests celebrating his grandfather’s 80th birthday (I’ll hopefully get some pictures from that up soon), it was a wonderful get together but we ended up spending Sunday recovering from the previous few days by laying around and sleeping. Which leads me to Monday that I tried to spend catching up on everything that fell to the wayside last week and not succeeding at any of it. I drove my husband, I am now his chauffeur, to his doctor’s appointment to find out he still is not released for driving and will need yet another CT scan. And today will not be any easier as we go to to our youngest’s first GI appointment to see if we can get to the bottom of his tummy issues.

All that to say – Do NOT skip breakfast and I will get back to all of you as soon as possible! Pleases be patient and if you don’t hear from me in a couple days, please try me again.

And thank you everyone for all your prayers and kind words! He’ll be ok in the long run, at this point he’s dealing with bad headaches and some short term memory loss that could last awhile and amnosmia – loss of sense of smell – that may or may not get better.