Fred Is in Hospital

• Fred is in hospital. He woke me to get him a telephone and he called 911 at three am on Friday morning
• To put this into perspective, this is the same man who refused to go to the emergency room when "*I* called 911 two days before. He was in severe pain, did not know who I was and wasn’t able to have a coherent conversation with anyone at that time. His own doctor and the emergency room doctor called him to encourage him to go. The EMTs spent an hour and a half trying to persuade him but then the situation was that He Knew Better…
• We were there in the emergency room for over 12 hours. Fred had Good Drugs and slept a lot. Fortunately, I remembered to put my Kindle in my purse and to take my cane with me.
• He had a CAT scan and because "something" was also detected in his lower back, an MRI a little later.
• We were told that the "something" at that point seemed to be inflammation. He agreed to be admitted. {This is a Big Thing because he has a history of not only refusing to go into hospitals but also of checking himself out of hospitals AMA.}
• Serendipitously, one of his daughters was visiting the other who lives here in Vermont which means they both saw him in the emergency room and when he was admitted.
• I went home since I had not had a complete night’s sleep for five nights. Unfortunately, it seems that my body is now "trained" to wake up after sleeping three hours…
• Since he was taken to the emergency room wearing only underpants, I have instructions from him to bring clothes today. This will help him to Make His Escape when he feels better… {insert eye roll here}
• If I didn’t love him, I would leave him.
• I am now going back to bed to try for another three hours sleep…

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You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You’re on your own. And you know what you know.

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