Well, today was rough. Theo got up at 5:30 to go to the bathroom and fell. More like slow motion crumpling, but same result. Anyway, it happened again later in the afternoon, but Em was standing next to him, per nurses orders. She wasn't much help because he is bigger than her, but he was talking to him during and he just said he was getting dizzy and then collapsed. They took his blood pressure in bed and it was normal, even bordering on high. Then they had him stand up and took his pressure again and it was ridiculously low. They determined that he was basically passing out when he stood up because his blood pressure was dropping when he was in standing position. They are thinking it is because he was dehydrated, so they stopped his lasics and gave him fluids. Then they gave him 2 units of blood. His hemoglobin wasn't super low, but it was trending downward so they figured he would need it in the next day or two, so that was a better choice to increase his body's volume. They also drew labs to make sure there isn't an infection that the steroids might be masking a fever for.
Anyway, he was pretty scared, but luckily they had done the MRI the night before and it came back clean with no swelling, which is mostly was Theo was worried about. He was feeling much better this evening and had a blast hanging out with Brady.
I am sure they will figure out what is wrong, but I dont know about a Monday release. To be honest, as much as we want out of the hospital, we want to make sure he is really doing well before they let him go. Too many little things keep coming up.
We will know more tomorrow or Monday. Love you all...
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