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"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit) 06/17/2016 at 10:55 • Filed to: None

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I was away Wednesday night until today, story below... Pinto police car for your time.

I got the call at around 5pm Wednesday, my late night at work, that my father in law was having breathing trouble, and was nauseous, so he called 911 and had been taken by ambulance to the hospital.

I drove down there after work and met my wife and kids there, but there was no news. They were running tests but had no results.

Then the storm came. Tornado watches, heavy rain, hail... but the aftermath was pretty:

After a few hours of waiting, and dropping the kids off by a family member for the night once the rain stopped, I was about to leave when I got another call. The CT scan they did showed a aneurysm in the stomach, and internal bleeding in his abdomen, and they were going to rush him by helicopter down to Milwaukee where there are hospitals better equipped for the emergency surgery he needed.

But the helo couldn’t land because the storm had left behind too much fog, so they called an ambulance. We followed it down to the hospital in Milwaukee, waited a bit, then were walked back through the maze of hallways to the surgery center by a social worker.

We met with the doctors and of course they gave us the Worst Case Scenario, not knowing exactly what they were going to find, and gave us a 90% mortality rate.

Yikes.

Then he said if they were able to patch the aneurysm, it’d drop to 50%

If they were able to patch it, and stop the bleeding by installing stints, that would drop in half, to 25%.

My wife was beside herself.

We were taken to a “Family Center”, where there were many other families in different states of emotions, and were told to watch a sideways TV that had each patient listed in the different states of surgery.

Then at midnight the screen refreshed, and only a dozen names remained. My father in law was not one of them.

We went to the front desk and asked WTH and the guy that originally told us to watch the screen for updates NOW tells us “Oh, I forgot to tell you, once they are no longer trauma cases, they are taken off the board”.

Relief. And a little anger. But mostly relief. He was going to be okay.

Another hour passed, and the doctor came back to tell us everything went well. They were able to patch him up and stop the bleeding. We waited another hour until he was in a recover room in the ICU to see him.

We got home around 3am. Went back to visit yesterday morning. Spend most of the day there. He’s doing a lot better, but they want to keep him mostly immobile until his abdomen heals, and they don’t want him to rupture his incisions. Turns out he’s been ill for nearly two weeks, and hasn’t been able to keep food down, so he is also severely dehydrated and malnourished.

But he’s in good hands, and was feeling better and joking around like his normal self when we left yesterday.

I’m back at work, my wife was off so she’s back down there today. Hopefully he’ll be out of the ICU and into a normal room by tomorrow, but we still don’t know the extent of the damage and what kind of restrictions he’ll be on, or when he’ll be going home.

One step at a time I guess.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Takuro Spirit 06/17/2016 at 10:59

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He just has too much swag to be stopped by some internal bleeding!

CalzoneGolem > Takuro Spirit 06/17/2016 at 11:04

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Turns out he’s been ill for nearly two weeks, and hasn’t been able to keep food down, so he is also severely dehydrated and malnourished.

I’m glad he’s doing better but dude guy should’ve been in the hospital at least 7 days before this. If this was my dad I’d wait until he get better than punch him as hard as I could.

Goggles Pizzano > Takuro Spirit 06/17/2016 at 11:05

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Very sorry to hear that, and it’s good he seems to be on a road to recovery. Something to maybe keep your spirit up:

Takuro Spirit > CalzoneGolem 06/17/2016 at 12:54

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Oh, we’re all getting in line, trust me.

cazzyodo > Takuro Spirit 06/17/2016 at 13:53

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“Oh, I forgot to tell you, once they are no longer trauma cases, they are taken off the board”.