The old lady called me about 9.30 yesterday morning said he was throwing and not very responsive except for saying yes or nodding, told her to call the ambulance and I headed home, made the almost 3-hour drive in a little over 2. He has been in the ER since then, no rooms because of the covid patients, still haven't been able to find out what's going on. They won't let anyone in the ER. Can only visit him once he gets a room. Frustrating.

I know its a trying situation, sounds like you are doing everything you can. Best wishes

Prayers sent Roger

Hang tough Roger.

Ride might get rougher.

Pulling for your Dad.

Wishing your Dad all the best, hope he gets well soon.

Prayers Roger

Good luck to him.

Prayers for your dad coming down from Maine.

Prayers from N.C., too.

Best luck for your Dad !!!!

Good luck to him

Best wishes for all

Good luck Roger!

Best of luck to all involved!

I hope the best for him.

All the best to your Dad. I pray everything goes as well as it can for him.

Prayers for a quick and complete recovery

Send good words up, Roger.

Best wishes for you both Roger

That's a tough situation. Best wishes to all....

Best of luck with this..

Thanks, guys, still haven't got a room but they told me he's stable.

Prayers for your dads quick recovery.

He's a tough old bird, right? Best wishes.

Thoughts and prayers from Iowa.

Prayers from NC.

Stxhunter: I certainly hope your father gets treatment and recovers ASAP.
Stay strong.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Prayers

Prayers sent from Michigan.

Stable is good.

Prayers sent.

Sorry to hear this.

Not sure where he is. Let me know if I can help from Houston and I will do whatever I can.


Tim

Best wishes, prayers sent.

I hope he is OK

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Best wishes for your dad and family, sir. Hope he heals up really soon.

Some days I dislike turning on the computer.

Sending good vibes your dad's way...............and to you and the family too.

Good luck with it all man.

Stable is a good thing at this point.

Stable is a good thing.

Hang in there.

Praying for your dad from this corner of the 'fire....

Prayers for your Dad, Roger. I hope he up and kicking butt soon.

Hang in there, and pray if it suits you.
I know, (sorta) how you feel.
I’ll be praying here. Best wishes.
7mm

This sounds like a stroke, classic symptoms. That said the hospital will put him in a room with covid patients and he will contract and die of covid.

Boy aren't you a ray of sunshine,,,,,,

You’re one worthless waste of oxygen.

Prayers sent for your Dad.

Prayer too you and your family.

The hospital called to get some info, said it might be two or three days for a room.

Sorry to hear that Roger. Prayers Sent !

GD........ you are obviously one very unhappy and pathetic POS to come up with some of the crap that you post

Ok can someone call the Taliban and put this POS Fûcker on their kill list.

It's still likely a stroke, and everyone old who goes to the hospital dies of covid even if they have a broken arm

Hey Doucheone go suck start a loaded Glock you worthless piece of schiit!!!

Roger I hope your dad gets better soon.

If only you were old......... People would stand in line for hours for a chance to break one of your arms.

You are scum of the worst kind.

Prayers sent.

Stable is good...hoping for quick recovery. Prayers sent from NC

Even white supremacist parents have strokes you know

Those who defend Hitler, are Hitler's spawn

This concludes this test of the emergency dumbcast system

Hope some good news comes fast about your dad, Roger.

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Best wishes for your dad

Almost 31 posts a day....Yeah, that doesn’t look weird.

What kind of work did you do ?

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You are a f u c k I n g idiot

tag...


watching this one Roger. fingers crossed.

I called this POS for what he was a while back

The Best to your Dad, Rog.

And you are defending a disciple of Hitler, remember your choice

Hang tough!

Wishing your Dad a speedy recovery. Hang in there.

What a total scumbag you are to come throw chit on the walls in a thread about life or death for valued members here...

Go away, Troll.

All the best for a complete and rapid recovery!

Prayers for you all!!

Prayers for your Dad, stable is a good thing.

Hoping for the best for your Dad and family.

Prayers for a speedy recovery

Thanks, would just like to be able to see him.

Fugg...I suppose it would be impossible to move him.

Thats what sucks Roger. I feel for ya. But I feel for your dad too. I was in that position once. It sucks layin in a bed in a hallway and everybody just keeps walkin by ya. No one stops to say a thing. EMTs and cops coming and going. You hear all the other schit everyone else is goin through. Worrying on top of things. Loneliest feelin ive ever felt. Prayers still goin up.

Hopin the best for your dad.

Now, tell the hospital that in the last week he has had shortness of breath, headache and nausea.

And, that he had a positive covid test a week ago, but you can't remember where it was but you'll get the results for them tomorrow.

He'll be admitted as a covid patient.

Seriously.

Wishing for the best possible outcome, Roger.

Prayers from Arkansas for your Dad and all your family. Joe

Prayers for your dad, Roger.

We know how close you are to your father...hell'uva thing, that helpless feeling not being able to see him. Just know all your friends are pulling for him.

Sorry to hear this. Will be praying for your family Roger.

Might be 3 days before he gets a room. He is in a room in the ER, not in the hallway.

“They” are the clean-up non-binary at the local rest stop gloryhole. “They” posts in between sessions.

Prayers from Pa

Dustyone, what posses you to say what you say? Try to do better, It must be real hard for you.

God bless you and yours my friend. Prayers for your Father.

You might be a good guy who just let life or an Internet forum wear your down. You might have low confidence and enjoy stirring the masses here with little recourse. You might be legit and be expressing morales hoping to either reinforce silent members who are afraid to speak or hoping to create your own following by influencing ideas,,,,,


In any situation I think of you in all the attacks on a struggling member with a sick father as classless at best and much lower at worst. Of all the others wishing/praying well-being on Roger’s Dad, I extend the same to you. Regardless of your outrage at whatever situation you find yourself in losing empathy and compassion for those you disagree with is an awful state. One I hope to never ever be in.

So Dusty, I’ll pray for Roger, and his family, and others I might even disagree with, I’ll pray most for you. Your in a pretty awful place I wouldn’t wish on anyone walking the face of the earth.

Sincere best wishes for your dad.

Roger, My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I hope your dad makes a fast and complete recovery.

Roger, praying for healing and nothing but the best for you and your family. Your Avatar is hateful or worse. All are made in God’s image. Consider your upbringing and compare to those you might see as behaving much more commonly. There’s a plague on mankind, I get it, but judging others based on a position of knowing their mindset without ever experiencing it is neither fair nor just. Until I walk a mile in their shoes,,, so to speak.

The avator is in humor.

Good luck. That is so phugged frustrating not to be able see a sick parent in a hospital, Same issue last year when my mom ad a stroke

we will keep you and yours in our family prayers .

Yep. That’s Bullschitt.

They’d have to arrest me to keep me from being with one of my elderly sick parents in the hospital, if either one of mine were still alive.

Prayers for the gentleman.

You’ve had your trials of late.

Sorry for your frustation, Praying for your Dad.

Hope your Dad gets well soon,Prayers sent.

His Dad's in the hospital. Stop preaching and say a prayer, dumbass.

Somebody had to say it..

Prayers sent.

I sure as sheeit don't have a monopoly on being anti-Hitler, and I'd never care if someone used a picture of him in jest even though he was responsible for murdering most of my family. What I care about is being a decent and humane person, and talking any type of sheeit to a guy whose father is ill is the act of a worthless scumbag.

Prayers for your Dad.

The Avatar has nothing to do with the man's condition.

Prayers for your dad Roger.

Yes, yes you did.

Here’s wishing your dad and you the best. I’ve been through that with my dad and know what you’re going through. My moms 90 and in a nursing home after a broken femur a few month back. It’s a hard time to go through.

Bull [bleep] my mom was in for chemo, she died and it was not covid, my dad was taken to the hospital after suffering a stroke, it was not covid that he died from, I was in hospital four times, did not die from covid, nieces child was taken to hospital, came home very much alive and no covid.
Your such a full of [bleep] posting troll, you offer nothing of value here and should be removed from this site, and if Rick would allow me to be a moderator you would be gone and so would all your other troll buddies.
Such a waste of good oxygen.

Your father has all legal rights to have his personal “Caregiver”, YOU, in the hospital room / Emergency room with him, especially when he is disabled (not working based on disability), which he is from his strokes. He lives with you, and you take care of him. That legally makes you his Caregiver, and gives you the legal right to be with him, especially being he is now further incapacitated in his present condition, and unable to talk, etc.

Here’s the key Roger, go up there dressed nice, and tell them you are his Caregiver, not a visitor, and he has the legal right to have you, his Caregiver in his room 24hr/day to oversee his care and communicate for him.

Tell them, and this is KEY, “I can make your job easier for you” and tell them “I will not be in your way whatsoever”. You know the care he needs etc. This lifts a huge burden off their shoulders being understaffed etc. Wear their mask, let them take your temperature for CV19 symptoms if they require, but no shot.

At this point, they will not be able to whip you around like the general uneducated public, telling you to stay away, who do not know their legal rights as far as “Caregivers” are concerned, because they will now know you know what his legal rights are.

Visitors can be shunned away, but Caregivers cannot, legally.

Go take this new info you are now armed with, and go be with your Dad.

I hope he gets better, praying for him.

I know what I’m talking about here. My family dealt with this multiple times over the years.

https://justiceinaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201123-OCR-Complaint-vs-HHSC.pdf

Roger is offline right now. Anyone who has his phone number, please text/call him to come read this, so he can go be with his Dad.

Prayers sent.

Prayers for your father, Roger.

Roger, how’s your Dad doing?

Just saw this. I hope your Dad is doing better. I will be praying for him to have a complete recovery. Keep us posted Sir.

Jim

Liberalism is a mental disorder in which a common warning flag is a total lack of a sense of humor. Must be a sad existence.

Prayers and best wishes for your father's health to return quickly.

sending prayers
you are having a tough week Rog.
stay strong.

it doesn't relate directly to the OP but my mom is getting on up there in age and has had multiple issues lately , some have required emergency room trips.

The first time we took her there ourselves and it was almost a 7 hour wait, which is absurd - they kept prioritizing people over her including Covid patients and at the time we had reason to believe she was having kidney failure.

First, in restrospect, we should have done a bit of research and called around to emergency rooms to get an idea of their wait times instead of just going to the default hospital we go to. With the covid mess that might not have made a difference. After about 3 hours there we started calling around to other hospitals to see if they could get her in, but at that point their advice was its going to be at least 30 minutes to get here and then at least another hour of waiting, we should stay put. I wish we had been calm enough to think it thru before we left the house.

but the second time she had to go , we called an ambulance, and what we have learned - as least as it applies to this hospital - is that ambulance patients receive priority. I'm not saying they would have put her ahead of someone in the middle of cardiac arrest but all things being equal she wasn't going to wait 7 hours with an ambulance crew handing her off. I guess my point is you aren't going to get off an ambulance gurney and get moved into a chair in the lobby.

Now I wouldn't want someone to choose live or death situation over this piece of advice, but if its serious enough that you are going to the emergency room in these current circumstances, I'd consider a $1500 ambulance ride as the cover charge to get in.

Best of luck and a speedy recovery for your Dad

He has a room now, going to shower get dressed and take his ph and glasses to him. He sounded better when I talked to him a little while ago.

Good deal.

We've called the ambulance these last two times, when my brother was working the ER at Sphon South which is close to my home I'd drive him, those were Blood pressure issues, they would get him in quick because of my brother.

Glad he’s doing better and has a room.

Good to hear! Hope you find him well.

My Mom fell again and luckily didn't rebreak the hip but cracked her pelvis, coccyx and some other bone. Currently in transitional care again. UGH!

They are going to do a stint in his heart they found some damage, also going to do an MRI today to see if he had a stroke or his cancer has spread to his brain.

Thanks for the update. I’m glad to hear that he is doing some better.

Prayers sent for your Dad!

Geeez. Sounds like the situation is a bit complicated. I hope the stint procedure goes well. Let’s hope and pray for a good MRI as well.

Hope he gets out of there soon, I don’t even like driving by a hospital, much less being in one.

Does he have a cell phone? When I was in the hospital emergency room area earlier this year my son brought my cell phone/charger to the hospital and gave them to a nurse who brought them to me.

just saw this. saying a prayer for your dad, Roger.

Is this limited to Texas? If yes, any intel on Michigan having something similar?

Roger, praying for your father and entire family during this rough patch.

Glad to hear he finally got a room, Roger.
More Prayers sent for your Dad’s speedy recovery !

Prayers for you and your dad.

Posts in another thread...

Not sure it'll make a difference but my gramps got a stint when he was 88 years old. They would normally never even offer it to someone that age but he was pretty full of life. We lost him about 4 years later but that was another 4 years no matter how you look at it, and he was doing great up until the last month.

He agreed, getting it done at 8 in the morning, I'm sure he will feel much better. He just doesn't want any open-heart surgery.

Good to hear Roger.

Glad to hear the good news. I hope the procedure goes smoothly for him.

He made the right decision. I'm sure the procedure will go well and that he will recover quickly. Good luck.

Prayers and good thoughts for a successful procedure and speedy recovery.

Good to hear, praying it hasn’t spread as well. Lost my father when he was 39 to brain cancer.

Well, there is that. American Taliban i expect.
POS for sure

Hope he gets thru fast and easy.

That should get the blood in the right place again.

Spot on. Great post. HCA 2000.

Hoping for a quick recoveree Rog and Dad !

Prayers sent.

Damn! Hoping he comes through okay.

Thanks

I will also say a prayer for your Dad.

HCA 2000

Sorry to read this Roger. I sure liked your Dad when I met him.

Roger,
Sorry to hear about this. Prayers for Dad!

A medical POA is good thing to have for elderly parents and pretty simple process to have one drawn up.

Prayers from WV

A quick prayer here for a good outcome today.

Best of luck to you guys today

From here too.

Prayers sent from here, Roger.
May your Dad have a complete and rapid recovery.
Take care of yourself, too - being the caregiver leads one to not worry about themselves.

still here waiting with him, guess they had an emergency that bumped him.

roger,
i had seven stents put in in december, awake the whole time. no pain, easy operation, blood pressure is now like a 15year old. operation is not to be afraid of.

Rodger,

The stents saved my life and added 10 years to my life, talk you Dad into getting what the Doctors recommend, he won't be sorry , Good luck , Prayers from here. Rio7

He is getting it done was supposed to be 8 this morning but they still haven't got him in yet, they had some kind of emergency. He just doesn't want them to do any type of open-heart surgery.

still keeping your dad in daily prayer Roger.

Amen! Me too.

Thanks for the updates Roger. Please let us know when the surgery is over.
Will be praying for him.

Jim

It's cool you're able to be there with him. Prayer for his fast recovery.

He had the cath done. no stint yet but his left ventricular ejection fraction is 25 percent which is bad, nurse accidentally told my sil who is a nurse also, when I put her on the ph with her, she realized the cardiologist was supposed to tell us that info.

Well Rog, you and your Dad know 1,000% more than you did just this morning. A pretty good basis for moving forward.

Fingers crossed for you and your father from here.

I have had mine dip a couple times near 30-33% on previous echos and perfusion stress test studies over 6 six worth of data.

At that point you usually get referred a little higher up to Heart Failure specialty cardiologist.

In six months of recent medication modification, they got mine back up to near 42-44%

A combination of Isosorbide Dinitrate and Hydralizine With a beta blocker like Coreg (carvedilol) will allow the heart to rest between diastolic cycles and *can* remodel some of that lost atrial volume on his EF%

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.11.022

2021 Update to the 2017 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway for Optimization of Heart Failure Treatment: Answers to 10 Pivotal Issues About Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Solution Set Oversight Committee

Pay attention to the drugs they want you to be on, i.e. which drug says “preferred.”

5.1.1 Initiating GDMT

Recommendations for starting GDMT in a patient with a new diagnosis of symptomatic HFrEF are detailed in Figure 2.

Anyone else wish they could have seen Crusty say this to Rogers face?
Or, in front of Leighton?

Hell most of the campfire.

Dusty, go away.

We might be crass, rude, vulgar, smartass, even mean.
But you don't have enough class to hang here.

Just saw this Roger. Prayers for dad & you. Godspeed

Continued prayers and best wishes for your dad.

Ambulance patients do not get priority every time and people tried that bullshit every day when I was working. Your mom was sick enough to warrant being admitted in on arrival. Shame on the intake nurse that didn't see how sick your mom was on your first ER visit.
I have seen tons of people get walked into the waiting room because they cut their finger washing dishes or have stubbed their toes and demanded an ambulance ride so they could get seen faster. It didn't happen. I have seen too many people NOT call an ambulance when they should have. For some stupid reason, before we got a confirmed cancer diagnosis my mom would pass or vomit blood. My sister and nephew would struggle getting her in the car to drive to the ER.
Guys, I know we're an older crowd here and some have some real medical issues. If you have a medical issue and can't stand and easily walk to a car, call 911.

Good luck to your Dad hope he gets better.

Thanks, they are going to put him on meds for it Dr was there briefly this morning, but my SIL an RN talked to him, she said he was in hurry but answered her questions. His ventricular ejection fraction was actually 20 percent. The left side of his heart has become lazy, with no blockage.