1/23/2024

How to Speed Up a Hospital

In our continuing saga...

Last night, sister called, very grumpy, because they hadn't done the endoscopy yesterday and they weren't sure if they could get to it today and she's feeling very defeated (but why? /s) and said, "I just want to go home and accept that I throw everything up. I'll figure out how to get nutrition in small doses somehow."

And then she told the nurse to let the doc know that she wanted to be discharged.

Miraculously, they were able to do her endoscopy this morning. And will do a few more GI tests today.

And like I realize that they're busy and she's not actively dying anymore, so could be in the back of the line, but also she's been in the hospital basically since the 14th and really, who wouldn't want to go home.

For now, the first endoscopy showed no obstructions, but they did suction off 2L of liquid that was just hanging out in her stomach. (This is abnormal, in case you didn't know.) So yay that something was amiss? But there were no magical answers forthcoming.

Bleh.

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