We’ve survived it but it won’t go down in the books as one of my favorites. Lon put on water weight gain a couple of weeks ago. It was bad enough that shirts he regularly wears didn’t fit. I could not get him into the Emergency Room. We went to Vancouver Clinic, who would not let us see a doctor since he didn’t go to his primary care doctor there. (He did see two specialists at the clinic, but that doesn’t count.) His vitals were okay, so he made an appointment at another clinic. You have to understand that you don’t see a doctor at any of these. You see a physician’s assistant. The one at the new clinic was good. She requested blood work to check his kidneys and helped him get into see his cardiologist on Wednesday. The fun started when I dropped him off out front and the truck wouldn’t start. I called AAA while he was in the clinic. They were able to jump it and get it going. I waited outside with the truck running till he finished. They told him he has congestive heart failure. The good news is that all his other organs look fine. They put him on heavy duty diuretics to get the water gain off, which they estimate at over 30 pounds. It was interesting that they were concerned about the state of his lower legs. I asked them about this when we were there two years ago. All I got was a shrug. This time, they took pictures. Anyway the diuretics are helping and I think he is starting to feel better. He is staying close to the house until he finishes with the pills.
We were too burned out to shop on Wednesday, so I went to the store on Thursday. The longer I was there, the worse I felt. I didn’t get much and I definitely did not want to get a turkey. I still don’t feel like cooking. We both took naps last night. I spent the day working on a Christmas knitting project. (And I found a mistake in it this morning. I’m going to leave it as is.) We’ll go back to the new clinic on Tuesday and see how things are going.
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