gingin's blog: The journey begins

<p>Monday Sept.3,2012</p>
<p>After carping at Bill for two months to go to the ER, he FINALLY let me take him last Friday Aug.31,2012. He had lost quite a bit of weight, was caughing up junk and in general miserable. When we got to the ER he was a VERY sick puppy!! Dehydrated and his BP was very low. IVs were started...4 as I recall. His heart rate began to race and BP bottomed out. Drugs to fix one did not "play nice" with the other problem. They even zapped him twice trying to get the rate back where it should be...once or twice he almost coded. The doc deceided he was just too sick for the small community hosp. in Chipley and planned to ship him to Bay county, but first ordered a CT scan. When he returned from the scan, the BP and heart rate had settled down, so it was deceided to keep him there. Bottom line between x-rays and the CT scan the doc said cancer. Big time in the left lung, likely in the right, but worse it had already spread to most of the lymph nodes and chest wall. Without a biopsy and path report he could not say for certain the type or stage, but in his opinion six months left. I headed home around 4:15 as we had a friend who had spent the entire day at the house riding herd on our 4 rotten dogs.</p>
<p>When I called that evening, Bill said his ER nurse had stopped in with her husband to see him...think he's a preacher, but not sure.Someone had also called Hospice, and the "on call" nurse (?) had visited and left a handbook for us. At first he wasn't going to try to see an oncoligist, but after talking to her and getting the names of several in Bay Co. who would likely see him even without insurance he wants to get a second opinion.</p>

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