From Bad to Good and Back To Bad..and then worse…

Greetings to our PNR readers out there…and everywhere else this ends up getting posted. I need to talk to my friends and fans out there, because we both agreed that we wanted you to know what was going on…

I’m sitting here alone waiting for the storms to hit later this evening, having just finished an interview for this weekend’s indie special.

We thought things were getting better with Kim…she had a good weekend after two visits to the ER last week…

We were wrong…Kim was admitted to the hospital this evening, and is likely to be there for a couple of days at least.  She got violently ill after lunch yesterday, and then started non-stop vomiting about 4:30 this morning. Her mother rushed her to the ER (man, they must be getting sick of us…heh heh heh), while I, with no time off left, headed to work. After work, we went to visit her – she was still in the ER but they were prepping her to be admitted, and had given her a battery of tests. She was out of it, and still vomiting about every 20 minutes or so, despite several IV’s of saline and nausea medicine, and was being wheeled to the X ray department when her mom and I left the hospital tonight, under the admonishment that I NOT cancel the interview we had scheduled.

Mom Pat called me tonight with the news that she had finally been given a room, and there was no answer when she called the room – hopefully, they’ve given her something to sleep, because with this heat wave, even with the AC in the bedroom, she had precious little sleep on Sunday night, and none last night because her stomach was hurting so bad.

As our SC listeners know, she’s been battling illness since late March, when she came down with a nasty case of the stomach flu. Since then, she’s had good days and bad days, often vomiting once or twice in the morning and then feeling fine the rest of the day (and before you ask, NO it WASN’T Morning sickness…). She’d have days where she would not be sick at all, except for a nagging cough that developed after the stomach flu had passed and she still hasn’t shaken it.

Over the past three months, she’s been to her doctor or one of their nurse practioners four times, to the clinic ER twice, and to the hospital ER twice. She’s had two CAT Scans on her stomach, both of which were completely negative. Over the past weekend, when she was feeling ok except for eating (she’s barely had anything to eat for the past week due to the nausea and the physical soreness of the stomach from all the vomiting), she developed a sore of sorts on, of all places, her uvula, which they swabbed when she was there last week to check for throat infection, but the sore went away with constant gargling.

Kim has Type 2 diabetes, which was diagnosed about three years ago, and takes medication regularly to keep it under control.  But her sugar levels have been abnormally high, and they’re testing her for a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis, which can be very serious if not treated correctly. Look it up on Web MD and it will scare the HELL out of you. And when I looked it up, it DID. I’ve been a basket case ever since. And I made sure to have her have the docs test her for it today, but the results take 24 hours, so we won’t know anything for sure until tomorrow.

If that IS the problem, she’ll probably be spending the next week or so in the hospital, and i’ll be sure to keep everyone up to date on it. But to me, and to her, the most important thing right now is for her to rest and let the doctors find out WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG. We’re both getting increasingly scared that this might be a serious illness, and they just can’t find it. I’m trying to keep the faith, but it’s been hard – there’s nothing harder than seeing the one you love the most so sick and being totally helpless other than to stand by and hold their hand or their head or whatever…this is the first time i’ve had to deal with something like this first hand and it’s absolutely killing me…she IS my Imzadi, after all…

I’m under orders from Kim to keep working on the shows, and so I will. Here’s hoping we find out ONCE AND FOR ALL what’s wrong…and that they can fix it. Until then, please keep both of us in your thoughts and prayers, and know that we love all of you so much, and cannot thank you enough for the wonderful greetings and get well wishes that she’s already recieved…

Thanks for your love and support…we couldn’t make it through without it..

TC