Those are the steps my brother took before calling 9-1-1 on my Dad. Being the stubborn man he is, he still wanted to wait, take a nap, rest, before calling. Brother said I don’t care IF you get mad at me, I’m calling. Good thing he did. By time they got there he was OUT OF IT. By time they gave him that shot and med-flighted him, it took SIX people to hold him down, even at 74 he was still very strong, THEN in ICU he kept pulling out his IV and they had to restrain him and put some sort of like boxing gloves on his hands. I am glad I didn’t see that part. He is all recovered now and IF you didn’t know it, you’d never know he had a stroke except his drop-foot gait but that is because of neuro Charcot-Marie-Tooth. Oh and because of that he told his doctor a month before, since the nerves are damaged in his legs because of the CMT, that maybe he shouldn’t be taking the blood pressure medicine, and doc said OK . . . month later STROKE. You’d think they would have monitored him or tapered off or said NO you still need to take it, just when standing up stand there for a minute before walking until dizziness goes away.
We now have a magnet on his refrigerator that tells the STROKE steps to take AND with the paramedics in Arlington, a sticker on the front door, back door and on the refrigerator which lets them know to look in the door of the refrigerator for a bottle, like a tall prescription bottle, that contains emergency contacts, medical history and a listing of all his current medications. I thought that was a pretty good idea when time is of the utmost importance and everyone is stressed out.
Just got an up date from one of my friends
who went to visit him.
He had another stroke this morning about 3am.
and now is in the ICU.
Thank goodness he was in the hospital!
Haven’t talked to his wife today so will know more
when we finally make contact.
Thanks everyone.
Oh. Just got off the phone with the ICU.
They were able to get the medicine (what ever it is.)
into him within three hours so that is a plus.
He’s semi concious but doesn’t have control of his
left side. Now they are waiting for the brain swelling
to go down some.
Will post more as I hear it.
Tet.