Happy New Year?!?

It's been a wild ride, 2011 so far.  Hope this isn't a forecast for what to come the entire year.

On New Year's Eve, Jon and I went out the the Greene Turtle in Hanover to celebrate the new year with my friend from college, Katie, and some of her friends.  Unfortunately, Jon developed another headache with nausea.  So, we left early and headed home.

Come New Year's Day, Jon's headache and nausea got progressively worse and he had to go to the ER. He wasn't keeping anything down.  It was bad.  At the hospital they did a CT Scan, bloodwork, and even a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to find out why he has been having these headaches.  Everything came back clean, and the meds he was given controlled the headache and nausea.  So, Sunday morning he was released and we went home.  Jon caught up on some much necessary sleep, as I ran errands, and filled his Rx's.  Jon was able to watch the Steelers game in bed, and kept down some of the homemade chicken noodle soup I made for him (It is yummy!).  But then the evening came, and the headache and vomiting came back with a vengeance.  Jon couldn't get comfortable or keep anything down.  

So Monday morning came, and I called off work to take care of Jon.  Obviously, he called off work too.  I called our family doctor and talked to the on-call physician, who advised me to take Jon back to the ER.  At about 9:30 this morning we headed back to Franklin Square.  We got into triage pretty quickly, but then it took a while to find us a room, and Jon was getting worse and worse as the minutes went by.  Finally, we got into a room, and they gave him more meds for the pain and nausea.  And after talking with the doctor, they thought this new, more painful headache could be from the lumbar puncture.  It's a risk when doing a lumbar puncture.

We had to wait for the anesthesiologist for finish a procedure, and then he came to talk to us.  To treat the headache Jon was having, they could do a spinal patch to stop the leakage from the lumbar puncture.  Although it was a little early (they usually wait at least 48-72 hours after a puncture to do a patch), we all agreed it was Jon's best interest to go ahead with the spinal patch procedure.  

They completed the procedure with success!  All in all, it took about 10 minutes to complete the procedure, and the relief was immediate.  Jon is feeling much better (with just a slight headache and little bit of nausea), and receiving an additional 2 liters of fluid.  As soon as his IV fluids are done, we can head home.

Thank goodness Jon is okay.  I was really worried about him, and his health.  Hopefully, this will be the last of these horrid headaches for Jon.  Thanks to Franklin Square, the nurses, and doctors, who have helped us, and the well wishes of friends and family.

I can only hope that this was a one-time thing, and not a forecast for what's to come in the new year.  Resolutions to come soon in the next post.  This was more important.

Home, here we come, soon.