Rhaeden and Grandad

Last week Rhaeden and I were in the car on the way home and I would ask him a question and he would say "huh ?" I would repeat myself and then get my answer. After doing this three times I asked him if he could hear me. The next day I e-mailed his teacher and a cc: to the school nurse to see if she had noticed a change in his hearing. She asked Rhaeden "Can you hear me ?" and Rhaeden said, "huh ?" The teacher moved him closer to her and sent him to the nurse to get his hearing checked and he failed his hearing test. The nurse had done a hearing test on him on October 1st and they were fine, but last Thursday they were not. So yesterday I take Rhaeden to the Audiologist to get a more thorough test ran. The technician told me that Negative Ear pressures shouldn't be below -150, Rhaeden's left ear was at -199 and his right ear was at -300. So he currently has some hearing loss. She described it more as hearing under water. The good news is that his nerves to the ear drum are working great. The technician suggested that we go back to the ENT especially since it is getting into the Winter months. I looked back and he had his first set of tubes put in on November 13th. The second set was in later part of Octber or early part of November because I remember going to a football game the night he had them put in because D'Nae was cheering in Highland. So, I, not of the medical profession, have determined that November is NOT a good month for Rhaeden's ears.

Grandad was taken to the ER in Vernon last night and after an EKG, blood work, four nitro pills and morphine he was airlifted to Wichita Falls. He spent the night in pain. They currently have him on a Nitro drip and are working him in for an angiogram. He is still in pain and they feel like something else is going on. Just got a call from mom: Grandad's dr., Dr. Samuelson, said he definately had a heart attack. They do not know the extent or the damage yet and gave him two options: 1) Get over this one and go home or 2) Perform a Cardiac Cath (angiogram) to see how much damage has been done and go from there. Grandad told the Dr. that he was in the Dr.'s hands and to do what he thought was necessary. Dr. Samuelson said going home would NOT be a good choice. Mom informed me that they had already signed the paper work to do the Cath so Dr. Samuelson had ordered it before talking to Grandad. Dr. Samuleson does not perfom Cardiac Cath's so he has recommended Dr. Desiree (sp). Dr. Desiree is the Dr. that performed Albert's surgery and is an excellent surgeon. Mom said Grandad was still NOT comfortable and they had increased the Nitro drip 3 times with no relief so they have ordered more morphine. The Cath will be performed sometime today. They are waiting on Dr. Desiree now.