So on Sat night(7/9/05) she was compaining of sharp pains in her stomach.  We ramped up to take her to the ER. I went ahead to see how full the ER was (since we just had the long wait) and we would have about a hour wait.  We got over to pick Jay up and Nancy (had a shift change) said no, lets wait to take her because she was ok at that time (7pm Saturday).  So Sunday, we decided to just take her in.  She still wasn't eating or drinking and she was getting dehydrated.  There wasn't a wait to get to a room and the entire process only took 5 hours (instead of 11).  

In the ER, they did an EKG and found some abnormalities that they didn't like, so they didn't start her on any IV fluids. The cardiologist is trying to find out if she is having some new issues or did she just have an abnormal EKG.  The GI dr. can't do any invasive testing until the EKG issue is resolved, so he did some CatScan's of her GI track.  Dr. D ordered a CT of her brain to look for a new stroke to see if that was why she has the swallowing issue.  That came back ok.  No new stroke, just the old one. 

 Dr. D said they did a chest x-ray in the ER and the radiologist thinks she may have a growth on her thyroid which may be pressing up against her throat making it hard to swallow.   So as of today, I still don't know exactly what is wrong.  Dr. D says we have a lot of catching up to do and will have to call in a few specialists, cardiologist, GI, Renal (something about her blood pressure being low and affecting her kidneys) and of course the foot Dr.  She will have a busy day to day.  They are going to do a cardiac stress test and then a swallowing test and maybe the GI down the throat with a camera test today. I will let everyone know how things are progressing as we hear.  But she is on pain meds there at the hospital, so her foot isn't hurting so much and she is resting comfortably. Gotta run,

Love and hugs to all, Mary