Saturday, September 3: Day 5

Kevin was discharged late in the evening and is home. Again. He does have an IV and drain tube intact. Soon after we came home, the home nurse arrived with all the paraphernalia I need to hook up and remove the IV antibiotics. It's kind of fun. Except for the one he needs at 2:00am. Yep. Every morning for two weeks at least, I need to get up at 2:00am, hook Kevin up, then at 3:30am unhook him. Sigh.

One of the questions we had when we left the hospital was Kevin's heart rate/blood pressure meds. He had not been taking them in the hospital but the discharge papers said he should continue taking them at home. We questioned if he truly needed them and got no answers. Just "Call your Dr on Tuesday". But when we asked the home nurse, he checked Kevin's vitals and made a few calls right then to get us answers. We like him. Bottom line is: heart rate and blood pressure are still very high. So high that the nurse looked right in my eyes and said to me intently "If Kevin gets blurry vision or chest pains take him to the ER RIGHT AWAY." Okey dokey. Message received. So why wasn't he getting them in the hospital for the last 5 days? I really believe it was an oversight.