Hi all.

What a nightmare. Alan was discharged from Maimonides after being there for a few days. No more fever. He exploded in the men's room. He was dehydrated, blah blah, so they discharge him. He comes home, the next night he gets up from the bed, falls to the floor and breaks his nose.(Yeah, I know, it's called syncope (or something like that). I call 911, they bring him BACK to same ER and all they do is tell me he has a broken nose(they did a cat scan of his upper region and an x-ray of his ribs). They told me he broke his nose but didn't break a rib). LIE!!!

They discharge him. He comes home and the same day he's discharged, (now it's nighttime) he walks out of the bathroom looks at the refrigerator and goes down to the floor. I go WTF. He goes WTF, he's sitting on the floor and I said "Stay down there". He goes "Give me my milk". I give him the milk and as he's just sitting there, he falls off his seat. I said "that's it". He was not unconsious but we were both confused. I had no phone service to i banged on my landlord's door to call 911 yelling "He's having another seizure (which I was wrong, because as soon as the paramedics came, they hooked him up to machines, etc". And told me He didn't have a seizure.

They tried to make him stand up so they could put the chair underneath him and he could not make it. He's a BIG guy. So the paramadics said "Let's put him down again, he can't stand'. They call another ambulance and more guys and gals showed up, they carried him down on some incline thing and we all went to a different ER. BIG DIFFERENCE. Omg, when we arrived he had 20 people cutting off his clothers and working on him (he was fully awake all the time). He kept saying "OMG, such attention". They asked me all the questions. Does he smoke, what are his meds? I just handed them the discharge papers from the previous hospital. They were glad to get this.

So they had him in the ER and he was examined by every medical team who were amazed at his toe and his finger and his psoriasis all over his body. Toe is almost healed and psoriasis is GONE. They don't know why. I do. He has had body scans and I think it's the radiation but what the heck do I know.

He has A FLUTTER (similar to A FiB). They did a lopressor push and his heart rate came down. It's been good since. They do seem to know what they are doing.

They have ruled out hear, brain and now they think it's the combination of prostate meds that he was on that caused him to faint.

He was originally taking Jalyn and had no problem. His insurance won't pay so he is on a combo of Tamluosin (sorry spelling) and finasteride.

They took him off of this and put him on another one. So far so good.
Today he had a physical therapist walk him around. He will get one hour a day and the physical therapist signed off on rehab after he leaves the hospital. I hope this is so because I can't lift him and take care of him while he is in this condition. I have to take care of myself. This has been so very stressful I can't begin to tell you. I have slept on a chair beside his bed for over 7 days. Forget my back. I came home to sleep last night and I had muscle spasms in my thigh during the night. Good Grief.

Anyway, will go back to hospital tomorrow and see what's up.

Just wanted to update all of you and get your input

Melody