It's been QUITE a week!

Things were going smoothly until last Friday around noon....... then everything went into a tailspin. Sam was napping on the couch and woke with quite a start and said he could not move his arms. Luckily, I was sitting on on the loveseat next to him and not attending a  local craft show as I had originally planned to do that day. He was able to move his arms quite soon and after determining that his blood pressure was very high and that he felt similar to the way he did when he had his heart attack, we decided to go to the Bloomsburg Hospital ER. After hours of tests, they decided to admit him for the night so they could monitor him. All the test results were in the normal range, including a cat scan but his blood pressure continued to be elevated. The next day they discharged him but advised we see his neurologist on Monday as well as our family doctor. They also said it appeared he had Horner's Syndrome --- a problem with his optic nerve that caused his pupil to be smaller than normal as well as his eyelid to be droopy. I had noticed it immediately after his spinal surgery 6 weeks before but no one would listen to me at the hospital or after.

On Monday we did see the two doctors and the neurologists confirmed that he was suffering from the Syndrome....and it is not something that will go away in most cases.  As for the rest, no one was sure what had happened on Friday --- really not reassuring, to say the least. An EEG was scheduled for Tuesday and he is now waiting for some feedback on that.

It is really nerve-wracking to just sit and wonder what happened --- it could have been a seizure, a TIA or something else -- but no one knows for sure. So, we just sit and wait and hope there is no other shoe to drop.

I did some computer research and discovered that several of the meds he had been prescribed after his surgery were possible causes of elevated blood pressure --- and I had him stop them. Both doctors agreed that was a good move -- but how come "I" had to figure that out and why were they prescribed to someone who is being treated for high blood pressure after a heart attack? So many questions and no answers.