That's Something I Hope I Never Have To Relive
Normally I save this page of mine for any poems or songs that I think up and need to keep a record of. Today things are going to be a little different.
I saw the scariest thing of my life today. Check that, I saw it 3 times. My best friend in the entire world (Who also just happens to be my brother) went into a seizure right in front of me. No warnings, just BOOM. This isn't a first time thing. He's had three of them before but this was the first one I had seen and had to deal with. I called 911 and got an ambulance over to the house and rolled my brother over to prevent him from chocking on his own blood and spit and waited in horror as the paramedics seemingly took forever to arrive. When they did they took his pulse and blood pressure and all that stuff and took him to the hospital. I was the only one in the house as all this was going on and I got to tell you it damn near traumatized me. But I then snapped back to reality and realized that my brother had just gotten married and his wife (The one who called me to his room to call 911 and seemingly to take charge of the situation) was in hysterics and there were his 2 stepchildren to take care of as well. The wife rode in the ambulance and I drove. Somehow I got to the hospital and drove around looking for a parking lot and still made it in before the ambulance did. After doing a CAT scan and detecting nothing amiss the nurses (Yes you read that right) discharged him from the hospital at around 3.
I made it home before my brother once again and sat down to rest (I've been awake since 6:15. The first seizure took place at 9) and once again my brother went into seizure. This time I was the only one in the house and again I called 911 and got an ambulance to the house. This time my brother stopped breathing before my eyes and I had to open his mouth and pull his toungue out from the back his thoat. I got bit in the process (The mark is still there) but I didn't and still don't care about that. Once again my brother was loaded up and taken away. This time I didn't follow because I was furious that he was discharged in the first place. I made it to the hospital around 8 after I had calmed down enough to not hit the first doctor I saw. After an hour of coherent conversation, again my brother had another seizure. While on an anti seizure drip no less. All while this was happening we were waiting on a seizure specialist to show up that was to arrive at 5 or so. At 11:15 the doctor arrived and laid it out like all was fine and dandy and that she wasn't late or anything. I coulda shot her. Right now my brother is to be on his way to the 5th floor ICU of BGH. It only took 3 seizures, 3 near deaths and 1 extremely scared and pissed of little brother but apparently he is going to be fine.
I'm not sure why I am writing this all down. I don't want it to come off as a "Look what I did" story cause I didn't really do squat. All I really know is that I saw the worst thing I could possibly see in my entire life today and if I live the rest of my life and never see my brother laid up on a stretcher with IV tubes comin out of his arms and an oxygen mask over his head ever again, I'll consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the planet.
I saw the scariest thing of my life today. Check that, I saw it 3 times. My best friend in the entire world (Who also just happens to be my brother) went into a seizure right in front of me. No warnings, just BOOM. This isn't a first time thing. He's had three of them before but this was the first one I had seen and had to deal with. I called 911 and got an ambulance over to the house and rolled my brother over to prevent him from chocking on his own blood and spit and waited in horror as the paramedics seemingly took forever to arrive. When they did they took his pulse and blood pressure and all that stuff and took him to the hospital. I was the only one in the house as all this was going on and I got to tell you it damn near traumatized me. But I then snapped back to reality and realized that my brother had just gotten married and his wife (The one who called me to his room to call 911 and seemingly to take charge of the situation) was in hysterics and there were his 2 stepchildren to take care of as well. The wife rode in the ambulance and I drove. Somehow I got to the hospital and drove around looking for a parking lot and still made it in before the ambulance did. After doing a CAT scan and detecting nothing amiss the nurses (Yes you read that right) discharged him from the hospital at around 3.
I made it home before my brother once again and sat down to rest (I've been awake since 6:15. The first seizure took place at 9) and once again my brother went into seizure. This time I was the only one in the house and again I called 911 and got an ambulance to the house. This time my brother stopped breathing before my eyes and I had to open his mouth and pull his toungue out from the back his thoat. I got bit in the process (The mark is still there) but I didn't and still don't care about that. Once again my brother was loaded up and taken away. This time I didn't follow because I was furious that he was discharged in the first place. I made it to the hospital around 8 after I had calmed down enough to not hit the first doctor I saw. After an hour of coherent conversation, again my brother had another seizure. While on an anti seizure drip no less. All while this was happening we were waiting on a seizure specialist to show up that was to arrive at 5 or so. At 11:15 the doctor arrived and laid it out like all was fine and dandy and that she wasn't late or anything. I coulda shot her. Right now my brother is to be on his way to the 5th floor ICU of BGH. It only took 3 seizures, 3 near deaths and 1 extremely scared and pissed of little brother but apparently he is going to be fine.
I'm not sure why I am writing this all down. I don't want it to come off as a "Look what I did" story cause I didn't really do squat. All I really know is that I saw the worst thing I could possibly see in my entire life today and if I live the rest of my life and never see my brother laid up on a stretcher with IV tubes comin out of his arms and an oxygen mask over his head ever again, I'll consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the planet.
posted by Kyle at 11:32 PM
8 Comments:
[Heavy sigh] Whoa. The first thing I thought of as I read your post was - thank goodness YOU were there! I know that these type of situations can freak us out, but they also make us respond in ways that we are not used to.
The fact that you literally saved your brother from choking... wow. What an overwhelming thought. But you came through. You were strong. And you did it.
I'm glad to hear that your brother is okay. Please update you blog if the doc's have more info and / or determine why this happened 3 times in such a short timeframe.
The seizure specialist couldn't find anything wrong on the CAT scan that they took but he's going in for an MRI soon. I have no idea when though. Nobody tells me anything around here. The best they could come up with was that he is just seizure prone. Smart people. Thanks for askin. Greatly appreciated.
I left the hospital cause I was tweakin out around 7 or so and I drove past Freedom House and saw your car and Eric's car so I figured young adults was on or somethin. I was gonna stop in but I was in no mood to chat and I had a friend in the car to boot. I was afraid that if I said anything it was gonna come out wrong and I'd sound like a total tool.
Once the MRI results come in, I'll either post it here or I'll catch you on messenger or somethin.
Cool - good to see you tonight! Sorry I couldn't make it to the camp.
Keep me posted RE: your bro...
I almost didn't make it to the camp. I tried to call my little sister to get her and her boyfriend to come out but her line was busy so I drove back into town to hit a pay phone and see if they were available. The first pay phone I got to was at the hospital so I walk into the ER and there was my brother again. No seizure this time but he's had a headache and they wanted to take another CAT scan to see if the last 2 seizures had done any damage. I left to go back out to Braeside cause I was Eric's ride and when we were done trying to burn everything in site I went back to the hospital to check in and my brother had already gone home. He's now sleepin peacefully while I'm still awake. I think I'm gonna hit him when he wakes up tommorow.
lol - you have a strange, but funny, sense of humor... (I'm STILL laughing!)
The way I see it, I've been at the hospital everyday since wednesday. If I don't try to make some humor out of this, I'll just go nuts. (Unless of course you're reffering about my all around sense of humor. If that's the case, it all started when I was 3. Life was simpler than, the grass was green, the sky was blue......)
[Still laughing...]
Ahh the ability to create laughter. It's my curse.
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