You Wouldn’t Believe What My Husband Did In The ER (Part 2)
By Melissa Bianchino, Out Run Your Fork Personal Training and Nutritionists in Westfield, NJ
In my last article I started to tell you all about my husband’s experience in the ER as he was readying for spinal fusion surgery.
He suffered an acute injury (not from the gym) to his spinal cord at C4 – C7 which paralyzed his left side. He had just been admitted to the hospital and was getting ready for surgery when I arrived at his room. What I found was like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster starring Ryan Reynolds in some crazy body-swap comedy.
My husband was standing, half naked in the hallway, clutching his IV pole with tubes and wires hanging all over him, yelling because it was over 100 degrees in his hospital room and there was “no f*&kin way (he) could stay here!”
(I checked the thermostat… it really was over 100 degrees)!
There were so many events leading up to this that were just as crazy… it was a citrus in there.
It took them 6 hours to get it down to a reasonable 75 degrees at which point my husband finally got into bed and, exhausted, was ready to go to sleep.
I looked at the nurse and said, “Do not kill my husband.”
She assured me everything would be ok and my husband told me to go home and get some rest.
So, I did.
I went home and tried to go to sleep, but I was worried. It was the first night since we’ve been together in which he didn’t come home.
And then my life got a whole lot more difficult…
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