Tests

Our new nurse, Kori, was very efficient and very sweet.  She did everything she could do to make sure we were comfortable. The doctor (Sunderland?) examined Gator for about a minute and then called me out of the room to talk.  He asked me what our plans were for the "end of life"...I asked "what are you saying" and he said "well, the way his skin is all mottled (blotchy purple) that's a sign that it's close to the end for him.  Gator has had that blotchy purple skin for years, any time he gets short on Oxygen but ok....he's the doctor.  He did a quick unltrasound with the portable and said Gator's gall bladder is "sick" swollen, and he saw a little bit of sludge in there.  Then Gator gets a CT scan and they find a blood clot on his lung!  The doctor pokes his head in the curtain and says;  "he has a clot on his lung...we're going to give him a shot of a blood thinner" and then he was gone.  A few minutes later the nurse came in and gave him the shot.  After about 20 minutes (during this time nurse Bonnie's supervisor came in to find out what happened, gave me a cup of coffee and left!) I finally saw the doctor running by so I asked him if he would please call Gator's Oncologist in Seattle and tell him what was going on.  I gave him the numbers to try and he left. He came back in a little bit and said "unforturnately the blood thinner we gave him will cause bleeding on the brain and there is nothing we can do to treat that if it happens".  I asked the doctor why they gave him this shot and didn't tell us bleeding on the brain was a possibility?  He made the sign of the cross on his chest and looked up at the ceiling like he was praying!  Then he said that our Dr. in Seattle wanted them to send Gator to the Seattle VA in an ambulance.....I'll bet Dr. Grim could tell this Dr. had problems after talking to him....we'll never know though because he would never talk bad about another doctor....