Tuesday, September 11, 2018

hubby not well :-(

So much has happened since I last wrote, so much that I am not sure I have the strength to write it all. Dean came home from work at about 9:30pm as soon as I heard the door I knew something was wrong because he works till midnight, I guess a lady got mad when she was pumping her gas and didn't like how he explained something and when he was walking back towards the shop she clipped him with the front end of her car and knocked him down. There were a couple people that saw what happened and one got her plate number because she drove off hit and run. Anyways he thought he was fine just his knee's hurt a bit and his hip but he continued to work. Then his days off came and I was taking him to the doctor and he got called in to work because the girl didn't show up for her shift and then quit, so he worked Tues and Wed which were going to be the first two days off in a row for a few weeks,Wed he told his boss that he doesn't have much more to give cause he is exhausted. Thursday I noticed some red dots all over his body and I thought they were heat rashes so I said you need to go to the doctor but there is only three people left to work shifts so he said he can't, he worked Thursday evening came home and tried to sleep, at 6:00am he woke me and told me he was going to emerge because the spots had moved to his mouth, said not to worry just sleep cause I didn't get to bed till 2am Thursday night. 8:00 am and 8:30 am he phoned and told me to come to the hospital and get his wallet and the car because he was going to be there for 2-3 days, as you can imagine I was in a panic crying and didn't know what to do, thankfully a neighbor took me to the hospital. I walked into the room and there is my hubby all connected to these monitors but awake and sounding weak. A normal person has 150 platelets in there blood and he had 2, so they gave him a couple treatments one by intravenous started at about 10:30am and was done around 2 am, then he also had to take ten pills two times a day. On Friday morning he was at a level of 12 so they let him come home but had to be very carefull, if he got hurt or was bleeding from anywhere he had to rush back to the hospital, so he was and is being very carefull of anything he does. The doctor at emerge told us that he has thrombocytopenia they said if he didn't go to the hospital when he did he could have bled out and died, the dotor that came on Sat morning told us that Dean will have to retire from this point on he no longer can work because he has to be careful from now on for the rest of his life. We are both scared and worried we don't know what is going to happen, he goes for an ultrasound tomorrow to make sure he isn't bleeding from the inside and then we go to his doctors to find out what is next to do, we can tell that the treatment is working because the spots are gone from his mouth and the ones on his body are slowly going away. So for now we are trying to keep good thoughts and not get to worked up but it is hard I am so worried for him and us but I am trying to stay strong for Dean and keep it together at least till we have more info on what to expect next.