Well, every time there was a
shift change at the hospital, Marshall had to see a new and different doctor
that was on call. All of them were foreign and you can imagine
Marshall with his hillbilly accent trying to talk to someone with a heavy
Indian accent or perhaps Korean accent. This morning he ripped all of his monitors off just to see how long it took
for anyone to notice. And no nurse EVER came running. So he was
really getting angry when the little female Asian doctor walked in
and wanted to do more tests. He got so frustrated trying to talk to her
that it really escalated. He feels that doctors in general have let him
down hugely by not catching this cancer before it got advanced and now these doctors
at Parkview weren't doing much to impress him either.
From my perspective when I spoke
to the doctors, they said they were not able to detect a heart attack. All heart
functions checked out fine. They did a scan of his carotid artery this
morning but we didn’t stick around long enough to get the results. They
wanted to do an MRI of his head but he couldn't convince this doctor that he needs to be anesthetized for an MRI. The only other explanation they could come up with for what happened was a
mini-stroke because that would present the same symptoms (passing out, chest
pain, difficulty breathing, unable to speak) or maybe angina. But I guess
we’ll never know. He has a big black eye from when he passed out and he
is choosing to tell people that I beat him up (ha).
He is on the mend and we will hope it doesn’t
happen again. It’s been surreal. I'm attaching a photo of his big old "shiner"!
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