At least you get to be with him!  For the longest time here people can’t be in the hospital unless you are a patient or a worker!  So very relieved that you can attend to him!

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate being able to be there 12 hours a day. Just woke up and might as well get up and going because I can't sleep anyway. This is a pretty tough time.

You both are in my prayers.

So sorry.  Hoping everything goes well.  Prayers and thoughts your way. 

sending prayers....

and thank goodness you can be with him..

Cathy (((HUGS)))) I'm sorry about your brother :( 

Thanks Karen. Just got home from hospital. They have ruled out blockage so now we are waiting for next steps. He has a whopping case of afib and my guess is when he went to urgent care he was pretty close to having a heart attack. They are giving him diuretics and he has lost 22 pounds of water in two days. Just praying they figure out how to get the heart back to a regular heartbeat. 

That’s a lotta water!  Glad they are getting him all checked out 

Ami_Quilts (sewingupasto) said:

He has a whopping case of afib

ugh.  ugh.   I have learned that it can go on for an inordinate amount of time.  It may auto-convert; it may not.  Our nurses here can discuss this more intelligently than I can, as I've only had 2 episodes that were short. (well, they lasted too long **for me** but that's neither here nor there.)

 

Ami_Quilts (sewingupasto) said:

They are giving him diuretics and he has lost 22 pounds of water in two days

What????    Holy moley.    Do they think apparent congestive heart failure??

Ami, Ami ... I'm thinking of you and Mark.  

yowzers...that is a lot of water!!

hope they get the afib under control...

you probably will want to invest in that gizmo that Pirate has AND the Apple Watch that Carolyn has...