I thought I would add this thread here. I put in on the cat board, but many may not read that, so thought perhaps I should put it elsewhere so more can read this. I thought you would want to know how Marlin was and is now.
I(Cathleen aka Angel) had to call 911 at 2:24am this morning(aug 5th) for Marlin. He woke me up at 2am with chills, sweating profusely, nausea and extremely dizzy and and blurred vision. We went around about if we should go into ER or call 911. Finally I was getting dressed to take him into ER when he said to call 911. Then I knew he felt really BAD, cuz he wouldn't say that otherwise. So I did and they were here within 4 minutes or so. There were a total of 9EMTS..5 in the house, 4 outside and then 2 ambulance people came. Full house~~ EMT's checked him over. His blood pressure was 190/120. I was really worried when I heard that. The nurse, Mylie talked him into going in the ambulance, and said they figure its cardiac until proven otherwise. So they scooted him off to ER and I got the kitties taken care of and headed into town..6 miles away. When I got there he was of course hooked up to EKG. He had his color back, but he had been whiter then a sheet.! The ER Dr. saw him and he and the nurse thought it might be vertigo but they were going to wait on blood tests. Well the gave him an IV and the blood work came back clean, so the Dr. said he thought a bit of a calcium deposit broke lose off of his inner ear and created all of this! good grief!! So, after the IV they gave him a shot of valium and sent us home. He's sleeping in his recliner and little buddy Fancy is laying on the couch but being ever vigilent and watching over his daddy. Little Fancy looked so worried and concerned before we called 911..its amazing how the furkids KNOW when things are wrong. So we were relieved to know it didnt appear to be heart related. The ER Dr. said to get to our Dr. and have him give a scipt to PT and they can work with him to relocate/settle down that calcium deposit back to where it was, then the dizziness will go away. Sounds all strange to me, but oh well...!!
A friend of his was really sick for a couple of days and thought he had the flu but when he didnt get any better he went to ER and found out the upper part of his heart wasn't beating in sync with the botten part. And Marlin had the same symptons as his friend had, so one doesnt want to mess around with ' wondering'..specially when you get to be our age. Safe rather then sorry.!
update: its about 10am now, and he's been up for a few times and he's still weak and dizzy. He laid down on the 3 season porch and laid on the " bad side", his left, which when he turns his head that way gets dizzy, and that sent him into a panic attack/the stuff that happened this morning all started to come back, so he hurridly got up and is now sitting in his recliner again. gosh.!! He usually sleeps on his left side, but looks like he's going to have to switch and that is difficult for him to get comfortable. I will be calling our doc first thing in the morning to get him checked out..
when he was released from the hospital his BP was 160/90. Much better then what it was!! I'll take it abit later to check him out, after he's been sitting again for abit.
he's hanging in there...
He says HI to everyone
Angel ,Marlin and the kitties
I(Cathleen aka Angel) had to call 911 at 2:24am this morning(aug 5th) for Marlin. He woke me up at 2am with chills, sweating profusely, nausea and extremely dizzy and and blurred vision. We went around about if we should go into ER or call 911. Finally I was getting dressed to take him into ER when he said to call 911. Then I knew he felt really BAD, cuz he wouldn't say that otherwise. So I did and they were here within 4 minutes or so. There were a total of 9EMTS..5 in the house, 4 outside and then 2 ambulance people came. Full house~~ EMT's checked him over. His blood pressure was 190/120. I was really worried when I heard that. The nurse, Mylie talked him into going in the ambulance, and said they figure its cardiac until proven otherwise. So they scooted him off to ER and I got the kitties taken care of and headed into town..6 miles away. When I got there he was of course hooked up to EKG. He had his color back, but he had been whiter then a sheet.! The ER Dr. saw him and he and the nurse thought it might be vertigo but they were going to wait on blood tests. Well the gave him an IV and the blood work came back clean, so the Dr. said he thought a bit of a calcium deposit broke lose off of his inner ear and created all of this! good grief!! So, after the IV they gave him a shot of valium and sent us home. He's sleeping in his recliner and little buddy Fancy is laying on the couch but being ever vigilent and watching over his daddy. Little Fancy looked so worried and concerned before we called 911..its amazing how the furkids KNOW when things are wrong. So we were relieved to know it didnt appear to be heart related. The ER Dr. said to get to our Dr. and have him give a scipt to PT and they can work with him to relocate/settle down that calcium deposit back to where it was, then the dizziness will go away. Sounds all strange to me, but oh well...!!
A friend of his was really sick for a couple of days and thought he had the flu but when he didnt get any better he went to ER and found out the upper part of his heart wasn't beating in sync with the botten part. And Marlin had the same symptons as his friend had, so one doesnt want to mess around with ' wondering'..specially when you get to be our age. Safe rather then sorry.!
update: its about 10am now, and he's been up for a few times and he's still weak and dizzy. He laid down on the 3 season porch and laid on the " bad side", his left, which when he turns his head that way gets dizzy, and that sent him into a panic attack/the stuff that happened this morning all started to come back, so he hurridly got up and is now sitting in his recliner again. gosh.!! He usually sleeps on his left side, but looks like he's going to have to switch and that is difficult for him to get comfortable. I will be calling our doc first thing in the morning to get him checked out..
when he was released from the hospital his BP was 160/90. Much better then what it was!! I'll take it abit later to check him out, after he's been sitting again for abit.
he's hanging in there...
He says HI to everyone
Angel ,Marlin and the kitties
