Could it have been a seizure?
11pm laying in bed Mike gets up to go to bathroom, next thing I here is the powerchair bumping the door frame. I get up to check on him and he is incoherint and can't speak to me. I get the chair moved so I can get through the doorway and he is soaking wet from head to toe with sweat and it looks kinda like he is choking on something. He can't speak to me at this point so I lift his head get in his face and yell can you hear me? His head bobbles very loosely and finally he says he is sick so I get him the trash can and he throws up. Now on to the bathroom while I am dialing 911 and he looks white as a ghost. Gets on commode and starts to come to himself and can now talk to me coherintly and says his chest hurts! Get to hospital in about 30 from the beggining of all of this, we live only about 5 miles from hospital thank God, and they seem to think it might be his heart. Nothing on ekg to show this and chest xray ok so don't know why they think its his heart. Doc says don't think its another stroke cause the smptoms would not have gone away by themselve. They decide his potassium is low but not the cause of the symptoms he is having so they want to keep him for observation. He refuses to stay and for some reason I understand this because the doctor says " I want to start him on coumidin." Lisa his daughter " He is already taking 7.5mg of coumidin how much more does he need?" Doc "Oh I was not aware of this" while turning to look at the nurse whom had just prior to this been given all his medications and had written them down. Thats why I did not fuss too much about him coming home. I guess they were just a bit off in the ER last night and Mike was not about to stay there if they couldn't even get the meds right. I do wish he would have stayed so they could have run some more tests but since he didn't nothing I can do about it. So my question still remains, could it have been a seizure or was it probably a mini-stroke? Help me out here everyone, got to get a handle on this thing before it kills him which is what he says is gonna happen. Thanks for anything you can do to help me out. Until later.
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