Set the alarm for a pre-dawn wakeup call, and was moving about in the dark getting ready to spend the day in the hospital. Got the horses fed, the propane tanks loaded up in the truck, gathered my other essentials like my computer and, of course, Hubby, and were heading out just after 7:00 as the sun was rising. We arrived just after 8:00 at the ER, where I dropped off Hubby, then proceeded to look for a hard to find parking spot, which took over 20 minutes. Registration was incredibly easy, as they have a rolling cart that comes around once you’re taken into the back, which seems to be almost immediately, at least once I arrived. He was looked at promptly, had his labs done quickly and efficiently, seen by a doctor several times with a barrage of questions, before they said all we could do now was wait for a slot to open up in Interventional Radiology. I took the opportunity to run some errands, grab some breakfast at Dunkin’, get some hay from a haymaker and propane and horse feed from Tractor Supply, and fill up with diesel before getting back to the hospital. Hubby opened with the possibility that they would want him to stay overnight and do the procedure in the morning, which did not make me a happy camper! A short while later when they came and got him to take him back for his procedure, they managed to fit him into the schedule, which raised our hopes again. Unfortunately, even though they finished the procedure in relatively good time, he sat in his room for many hours waiting for a dialysis bed to free up, and then for “transport,” which turned out to be a big problem for some reason. Anyway, by this time, it got too late, and since they discovered Hubby’s heart was in A-fib, they decided to keep him overnight, fix the A-fib in the morning, then dialyze him in the afternoon. We had no choice, and besides, it was all stuff that needed to get done, so I guess we might as well let them do it. Of course, it cuts into my training with Flash a bit, but since he was going to be busy all day, I can get a ride in before coming over. I’ll miss him not being with me, but my snoring has evidently been keeping him awake for the last few nights (my cold/flu has come back in spades), and his coughing has done the same for me, so hopefully we’ll both get a better night sleep. Drove the 40+ miles back to camp, got the horses taken care of and went to bed.
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