Distance

April 15, 2008 | Filed Under Main |

When you are living across an ocean and thousands of miles from your home, this is not an email you want to wake up to:

“I just came home from 7 hours in the Monmouth Medical Center ER. And had a cat scan of my brain.”

This was from my wife, Kerry. It is 8:30 in the morning for me and now I have eight hours before anyone is awake enough to tell me what happened.

Kerry is fine. She was using our brand new vacuum cleaner (a marvel of science, I’m told) on her bedroom – which of course spurred her to other cleaning – when she was stricken by a blinding migraine headache that was worse than she has ever had before and wouldn’t stop. With no one around and the pain unbearable – she called 911. Our emergency services in town are the best and pretty soon, the house was surrounded by police, fire and medical apparatus. She couldn’t have been in better hands, though I’m sure it frightened the neighbors. Kerry said most of her seven hours were spent lying on a gurney, waiting for someone to see her and take tests. She also said that the ER was as exciting in person as you see on TV (though I guess a bit more condensed on TV). Of course, the doctors found nothing. They never do. The CAT scan was clear and the blood work should have been ready yesterday… while I was sleeping.

8AM in the States is 3PM here. So hopefully this afternoon, I will know something more. When I Skyped her last night, she seemed fine but tired.

Unfortunately, she will probably never clean her room again.

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8 comments so far
  1. Nattarg April 17, 2008 8:37 am

    Prednisone is wonderful stuff. I have never heard of anyone who has been prescribed the stuff who hasn’t had a rough reaction.

    She has us pretty worried, Ellen in particular, but as soon as I heard that she had been given Prednisone for a rash the week before, I had the feeling the pharmaceutical companies were at work.

  2. mburma April 17, 2008 10:38 am

    She didn’t tell me it was prednisone. That totally makes sense. That drug is poison. I know it well…

  3. terry April 17, 2008 5:40 pm

    I hope she feels better and forget the cleaning for now!

  4. Patrick April 17, 2008 8:14 pm

    Hope everything is OK. Tell her we’ll come by and help her clean if need be :>). (We’ve moved to NJ now, so we are nearly neighbors…kind of.)

  5. mburma April 18, 2008 12:05 am

    She’s okay. The Prednisone - which she was given for a rash - just spiked her blood pressure. The pills are in the garbage now.

  6. kerry April 18, 2008 8:09 am

    Okay people, move along - show’s over, nothing to see here….

  7. Mike April 18, 2008 10:04 am

    OK Kerry…when did that stuff turn you into Officer Barbrady???

  8. kerry April 20, 2008 7:47 pm

    respect mah authoritai.