Well...where do I start!?! Ready for a story...a true tale?!? I spent the night at Melany's because I couldn't stay at hospital in Lebanon. Melany had to teach this morning so Wade said that he would take me to the hospital. We didn't leave till almost 10am because he had some work conferences...he continues to work at home...has since Covid shut things down...almost 3 years now. We got underway and about half-way to the hospital I got a phone call telling me that Woody was now at Vanderbilt in Nashville and that he was very critical. He explained that he had been brought by ambulance due to increased internal bleeding. They had out in an arterial line with Woody's permission. And that thry might have to intubate him (ventilator). About the last thing thst he said besides appologizing that no one had called me was that I should come...that he was in very serious condition. We just continued as we were and got on I-40 and headed on into Nashville and on to Vanderbilt. When we got there they were giving him his third unit of blood and was losing it as fast they were putting it in. It sas hustle and bustle in his room. They were planning a procedure...angiography and possible embolization. They go up through an artery in his groin and look for the leak/s and fix what they see leaking. Unfortunately they found no active bleeders...but found a place where blood had been pooling and used a metal coil somehow to "fix" that area...layman terms used here...what my mind saw when the doctor explained. Since the procedure the bleeding has definitely slowed down...they are watching carefully to see if it is active bleeding or blood that had already leaked out and is justng going to take a while to leave his body. They know what they are looking for. So far he has had 5 units of red blood cells, 4 units of plasma amd 2 of platelets. They are keeping a tally on a glass window in his room! He is resting peacefully and his color is ever so much better. We had the nicest thing happen a few minutes ago, the EMT who rode next to Woody in the ambulance stopped in to check on him. He was here to transfer another patient and decided to see how Woody was doing. Nice to be able to thank him. Woody told me that he had now had his ride in the ambulance with the siren blaring all the way! He then said that he still hadn't had a ride in the life flite helicoptor...and the EMT said that he would have flown in a helicoptor this morning but the atmosphere wasn't right to take a helicoptor up...ice in the upper atmosphere! Hoping rhat he lets his desire to ride in that helicoptor slide...just as soon he's skip that ride of a lifetime! I will add now that Woody was told that he came as close to death this morning as he could without dying! By the time they got him to the hospital, he had no pulse so they took him to the ER first as they thought they had lost him. But he rallied and they were able to order blood products and get them to the ICU floor quicker than would have happened if ICU had ordered them. After all that has happened today, he is now sleeping quietly. They are giving him that 5th unit of blood since his hemoglobin had dropped a little... ut nothing like earlier in the day! I'm sure that it is still pretty much touch and go, but at the moment things are calm. And, as I say each night lately...to be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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