Mom Catches a PE
10 points to my mother, ex-nurse, current photo-stylist, for advising her healthy, 40-something co-worker to go to the hospital for his increasing shortness of breath. He had a pulmonary embolus (for unknown reasons at this point).
Moral of the story: If out of nowhere you start developing symptoms that make no sense, please see a doctor.
He’s now in the ICU and they’re drawing cultures every couple of hours–septicemia?
He says no one’s told him anything but maybe he’s not asking. No insurance and he’s a free lance artist so no income; we’re taking up a collection. He called tonight and guessed maybe his bill would be 15K–he has NO IDEA that it’ll be more like 80K IF he goes home this weekend. Crikey.