OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

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Drewbydoo said:
Someone mentioned having a wellness check on me, which isn't far from the truth:

For a few weeks I was working really hard trying to finish another class early and do some work on a potential patent before Spring Break. I planned on re-connecting here during Spring Break which was this past week.

My friend and roommate, Marc, got to pick what we were doing for spring break which was 3 days in Ft. Lauderdale/Miami and 4-5 days in Washington, DC. A couple of days before Break, Marc and I were coming home from a computer lab and stopped on a stairway in our building and said he needed to rest. So he sat on one of the steps. Then he looks at me, with some amount of fear in his eyes and say, "Drew, I'm dying". Then he passed out. I stopped him from sliding down the stairs and called 911.

He was bleeding internally, his thyroid quit working and his body quit making red blood cells. He was extremely anemic and was in fact, dying.
They did an ultrasound of his heart for about 40 minutes and didn't find anything. Then did a upper and lower GI a couple of days later. Nothing. Cat scan of his thoracic cavity and found nothing.

Over the past week they gave him 5 bags of blood and 4 bags of iron enriched blood.
Tuesday night 5 people and a crash cart literarily came crashing into the room.
Wednesday, between 7AM and 5PM, I counted 29 times someone woke him to up to hang bags of blood or draw blood or take vitals or his doctor, nurse, nurse's aid asking questions.

We spent 8 days in the hospital and they diagnosed him with micro-bleeding because they know he's bleeding very slowly, but don't know from where.
Now that he is taking a synthetic for hypothyroidism, they hope his body figures it out because they are out of the ideas. We're supposed to go to our general practitioner next week.

We slept last night and all day today. Didn't see any of the NCAAT yet. He wanted me to wake him up at 930PM because he wants to try to watch UCLA vs Tenn at 940PM. :)
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Hadn’t seen your post, Drewby. Good to hear from you and to find that you are doing ok.

Sorry for the hard circumstances for your friend. I hope they get him squared away. You guys are too young to think about mortality.

Hope you are able to thrive through the back end of your semester, and we look forward to having you back on the regular in The Dugout.
 
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