Hey all... This is Sean filling in for Amy. She is having some medical issues. She's okay and she wanted me to write and let you all know what is going on with her these days. Here is the post that I put on my blog greatadventure29.blogspot.com.


A few of you who are reading this may have witnessed a somewhat scary incident at Newport Bay on Saturday night in which my wife Amy completely lost her balance and had to be assisted to the car. Here's an update.

Let me start by saying that Amy is doing much better right now. However, her problems with vertigo which have been going on for a long time did intensify markedly on Saturday. Normally, Amy will lose her equilibrium for a few seconds at a time and when she sits down and rests, the attack passes. Last saturday however, I noticed that these attacks were coming more often than usual. Then came the incident at Newport Bay where I had to assist her to the car. I got her back home and put her to bed thinking that the attack would pass by morning however at about 3 AM I woke up and she was still struggling with symptoms of vertigo along with symptoms of a panic attack. She was still unable to walk even a short distance unassisted. At this point we decided that the best thing to do was to get her seen immediately. We ended up at the emergency room at about 3:30 AM. Now I don't know how many of you have ever been in an emergency room at 3:30 AM but I really don't reccomend it if you can avoid it. First, a lot of time the overnight shift is the shift where the most inexperienced doctors and nurses work. This proved to be the case Saturday night. The Doctor looked like he was about 8 and could not seem to figure out why we came to the emergency room given Amys symptoms. It was all I could do to keep from saying in a really sarcastic tone, "I'm sorry, I always thought that someone not being able to walk under their own power for over 6 hours constituted an emergency!!" but wisely I held my tounge. After a bunch of hemming and hawing, this doctor decided to put Amy on an IV with some medicine to help her dizziness. So after awhile nurse ratchet came in to put the IV in. Now Amy was a little nervous at this point as would anyone be. She asked the nurse if she had done this a lot of times. Just our luck, we had to get a flippin' comedian as a nurse. "Nope, first time." she replied. It was supposed to be a joke to ease the tension but the result was that Amy got even more nervous and as a result of THAT the IV hurt more than it should have and even came out of the vein. So after some maneuvering, this nurse got it set. Keep in mind that while all of this was going on, there was an 80+ year old woman in the next room screaming that her legs hurt. So about an hour goes by, Amy gets to feeling a little better, and the doctor comes back and anounces that he is sending her home with a prescription for Meclizine (an anti-diziness drug). So a nursing assistant came by about 5 minutes after the doctor left and took out the IV. Amy started getting dressed but after she got her shirt back on, we couldn't help but notice the massive amount of blood flowing from where the IV had been. Our wonderful nursing assistant had forgotten to apply any pressure to the vein and so blood was now flowing down Amys arm. I calmly walked out to the nurses station and informed them of this fact. The nursing assistant then came an and stopped the bleeding and we went home.Amy recovered Sunday and Monday but this morning she had a bit of a relapse and had to stay home from work.

Now for those of you who have been following this story, this diziness has been an onging problem. She has had a complete neruological exam, blood tests, and an MRI all of which have come up normal. On friday we go to an Ear Nose and Throat doctor to have Amys inner ear checked. Please pray for this appointment. Pray that God would give the doctors wisdom because the diziness is getting really bad and is starting to impair Amys day to day functioning. Pray that God would give her strength because understandibly, she is getting frustrated by not having an answer to this. It would make this a lot easier to accept if we just had something to call it.Thanks for your prayers...Have a great day and God bless...Sean