Just as long as I don't miss the appropriate moment for panic & freak out

[cimorene]

Dad has left the hospital three (?) times and gone back three times now. More tests, but no more blood transfusions that we've been told of. What exactly is going on remains a tremendous medical mystery apparently.

This time was the second arrhythmia. The first time he was in the cardiac unit, medical science first thought it was a very small heart attack, then that it was not a heart attack but only an almost-heart attack. He ultimately moved out of cardiac (from whence he got a regular room, then an intensive care room for unrelated reasons, then released, then back to the hospital Thursday (?)). I think there's no phones in the cardiac unit according to mom.

I'm getting "Just Exactly How Worried About This Do I Need To Be?" emotional fatigue.

I never realized that THAT would be such an issue in cases of medical mystery, especially as it seems comparatively petty beside the health of a loved one, but there you are.

My mom assures me and my sister, though, that if it gets serious enough that they think we need to rush to his bedside she will tell us. And I think I can trust that, because it's only a 5-hour drive for my sister, which at this point is practically just commuting by the standards of our family.

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[laurajv]

oh no. hope they figure it out soon!

[msilverstar]

Modern Medicine: not as precise as they pretend (I had a rare disease false alarm, it sucked)

[cimorene]

Oh no that sounds awful. I thought I understood this fundamental lack of precision thoroughly already, but this one is even more mysterious than the previous confusing hospital episodes in my experience, and it is wearing on my nerves regardless. I guess that with medicine, like life, you just have to accept it's gonna suck sometimes and you're not gonna know why and strive to be at peace with that.