CAROLINA CHAT
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Joined: Jul 2010
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From: Franklinton, NC
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 11,715
From: Raeford, NC - Where if it ain't broke, we fix it!
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 1,087
From: North Carolina
One of the photographers from Bristol Dragway took a video of my car at the Street Fights last weekend. He contacted me tonight and told me it was on youtube. Thougt that was cool of him..... Prety cool video, its a neat perspective. I just wish the car would have been running the numbers it should have.
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 7,233
From: Thomasville, NC Where we beat headers into submission!!
What a weekend.
Jason and I flew back from Memphis on Friday after his checkup at St. Jude which went well. Friday morning he woke up complaining that his ear hurt. We were still at the hospital so we went back to his usual clinic there and had them take a look at it. The doctor said that he most likely had an ear infection. They wrote us a prescription for some numbing drops and we headed to the airport. Jason was acting pretty normal, we ate lunch and boarded our plane. About 15 minutes into the 1.5 hour flight from Memphis to Charlotte he started shivering so hard it was scaring him. I didn't realize at that point that he was actually in a sort of delirious state. He stopped shivering about 20 minutes before we landed and seemed to settle back into sleep. We landed and I woke him up. Something still wasn't quite right though, he was not really awake and was totally unaware of where we were. Of course all the ignorant, self important asshats at the airport were still trying to run over him even though he carries his cane. So I get him off the plane and we sit down to wait for our connecting flight to Greensboro. At this point I'm pretty freaked out. Then he just sort of snaps out of it. I'm like "sweet". We get on the plane to Greensboro. He sleeps through that flight and even though I could tell his ear was hurting he seemed pretty normal when we got to Greensboro.
My mom takes him from the airport, to meet his mom at urgent care where they diagnose him with an ear infection and give him antibiotics.
As soon as he leaves there he starts vomiting which goes on through the night. The next morning his mom can't get him to wake up. He is in sort of a catatonic state, eyes are open but no one is home. She calls 911 and they send an ambulance. I was racing there to try to get there but I end up meeting the ambulance on the road and I follow them to the hospital.
They pump him full of fluids and dextrose in the ER and send him up to the Pediatric ICU. About 2 am Sunday morning he wakes up fully alert and ready to laugh and talk.
Doctors at that point were thinking that the ear infection had spread to either his brain or into the Mastoid bone. they attempt a Lumbar puncture and it was a big fat fail that ended in me yelling at the doctors to stop because he was freaking out and whatever sedative they gave him wasn't working.
So they start him on badass antibiotics that will take care of either Meningitis or Mastoiditis. At that point they're talking about heavy dose antibiotics through the IV for 2 weeks in the hospital which they then said might be able to be done at home with a home nurse.
Last night the EENT specialist finally came through and looked at his CT and in his ear. He feels that it is just a regular ear infection that ruptured coupled with severe dehydration that caused him to go into that mental state.
We are still in the hospital but Jason is doing much better and is almost completely back to himself. Hopefully he will bust out of here this afternoon or tomorrow. They're still going to do a 7 day course of the stout IV antibiotics at home with a nurse coming to the house.
Jason and I flew back from Memphis on Friday after his checkup at St. Jude which went well. Friday morning he woke up complaining that his ear hurt. We were still at the hospital so we went back to his usual clinic there and had them take a look at it. The doctor said that he most likely had an ear infection. They wrote us a prescription for some numbing drops and we headed to the airport. Jason was acting pretty normal, we ate lunch and boarded our plane. About 15 minutes into the 1.5 hour flight from Memphis to Charlotte he started shivering so hard it was scaring him. I didn't realize at that point that he was actually in a sort of delirious state. He stopped shivering about 20 minutes before we landed and seemed to settle back into sleep. We landed and I woke him up. Something still wasn't quite right though, he was not really awake and was totally unaware of where we were. Of course all the ignorant, self important asshats at the airport were still trying to run over him even though he carries his cane. So I get him off the plane and we sit down to wait for our connecting flight to Greensboro. At this point I'm pretty freaked out. Then he just sort of snaps out of it. I'm like "sweet". We get on the plane to Greensboro. He sleeps through that flight and even though I could tell his ear was hurting he seemed pretty normal when we got to Greensboro.
My mom takes him from the airport, to meet his mom at urgent care where they diagnose him with an ear infection and give him antibiotics.
As soon as he leaves there he starts vomiting which goes on through the night. The next morning his mom can't get him to wake up. He is in sort of a catatonic state, eyes are open but no one is home. She calls 911 and they send an ambulance. I was racing there to try to get there but I end up meeting the ambulance on the road and I follow them to the hospital.
They pump him full of fluids and dextrose in the ER and send him up to the Pediatric ICU. About 2 am Sunday morning he wakes up fully alert and ready to laugh and talk.
Doctors at that point were thinking that the ear infection had spread to either his brain or into the Mastoid bone. they attempt a Lumbar puncture and it was a big fat fail that ended in me yelling at the doctors to stop because he was freaking out and whatever sedative they gave him wasn't working.
So they start him on badass antibiotics that will take care of either Meningitis or Mastoiditis. At that point they're talking about heavy dose antibiotics through the IV for 2 weeks in the hospital which they then said might be able to be done at home with a home nurse.
Last night the EENT specialist finally came through and looked at his CT and in his ear. He feels that it is just a regular ear infection that ruptured coupled with severe dehydration that caused him to go into that mental state.
We are still in the hospital but Jason is doing much better and is almost completely back to himself. Hopefully he will bust out of here this afternoon or tomorrow. They're still going to do a 7 day course of the stout IV antibiotics at home with a nurse coming to the house.
Last edited by Jeffk; Apr 8, 2013 at 07:02 AM.