life and them curve balls
Nov. 12th, 2004 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
njordsifusansooMy Dad is currently in the hospital. Last night, around 2:30, my mom woke me because my Dad was not responding. He was breathing fine, but coud not move (short of the occasional slight headshakes and nodes). That in and of itself was not odd given my Dad's medical problems. The big deal was those events usally last maybe 5 minutes if that; this was over 10 minutes at that point. So we called the paramedics and they took him down to Desert Sam.
I stayed down ther till about 5am because I needed some sleep before work (My mom woke me about 1.5 hours after I has gotten home from reconviene). When I left my dad was able to open his eyes, but still couldn't move his body much. Talking to my mom recently, he appears to of recovered more and has been moved to intensive care, but is still not fully functional.
Now for why short term paralysis is not odd for my Dad. As some of you know, my Dad has Narcolepsy, Cataplexy(the source of the paralysis), and Sleep Apnea(the central type). This has caused loads of "fun" given how little is actually known about these conditions (there is much on-going research in treatment and cause). Even more fun is the mangle of medications (some experimental) my Dad is/has been on; especially how they interact with eachother and how the sideffects affect the conditions they are not treating (did I mention he is on Xyrem because it replaces several other medication he was on and the side effects are not as bad as those other meds)...
I stayed down ther till about 5am because I needed some sleep before work (My mom woke me about 1.5 hours after I has gotten home from reconviene). When I left my dad was able to open his eyes, but still couldn't move his body much. Talking to my mom recently, he appears to of recovered more and has been moved to intensive care, but is still not fully functional.
Now for why short term paralysis is not odd for my Dad. As some of you know, my Dad has Narcolepsy, Cataplexy(the source of the paralysis), and Sleep Apnea(the central type). This has caused loads of "fun" given how little is actually known about these conditions (there is much on-going research in treatment and cause). Even more fun is the mangle of medications (some experimental) my Dad is/has been on; especially how they interact with eachother and how the sideffects affect the conditions they are not treating (did I mention he is on Xyrem because it replaces several other medication he was on and the side effects are not as bad as those other meds)...
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Date: 2004-11-12 09:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-13 06:30 am (UTC)I'm really sorry to hear that.
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Date: 2004-11-13 08:21 am (UTC)x Jeremy M.