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  1. Silent Bob Boobacca's Ambulance Ride

    Player Chronicle -- Posted on Feb 21 2009

    Many of you on these pages know Boobacca is my brother and business partner.

    We had a meeting early Friday morning with Ben regarding a joint GoG/Cyber Ops tournament following the KidsFest activies this year.

    It wasn't five minutes after Ben left that one of my nephews called me saying Boo was "really really sick." I initially shrugged it off since I just saw him five minutes earlier, and he was fine. But then my youngest nephew (they had no school Friday in case you're wondering) came in and said, "You gotta help my daddy. He's really really sick."

    OK, two "really really sick" pleas in under a minute had me scurrying to Boo's place to check on him. He was sitting in his recliner, pale as a ghost, bluish lips, shaking uncontrollably. The boys said he also had vomited several times, and when I looked in the garbage next to his chair, I saw what looked like coffee grounds in a thick clear syrup. I knew right away he had some type of upper gastrointestinal bleed. I didn't know if it was an ulcer, a torn esophagus, or what.

    I loaded him up and took him to the Mercy clinic. The nurses looked shocked to see him in his condition, hunched over like a 90-year-old man, shaking uncontrollably and walking very slowly. He had just been in two days earlier for a stiff neck and was given a couple prescriptions and sent on his merry way.

    They hooked him up to an EKG, and there were some abnormal heart rhythms that had them concerned, and he was nauseated again and vomited some more of that coffee ground emesis.

    The clinic doctor told him point blank they didn't have the equipment there to help in the way he needed helped, so they called an ambulance to transport him to the main Mercy hospital downtown.

    They ran a whole battery of tests on him, including a C/T scan, chest and abdominal X-rays, all kinds of blood work, on an on.

    They finally admitted him around 5:00 pm and scheduled more testing for today.

    They haven't figured out what's wrong with his head why he has his severe neck pain, but they did manage to find out the two days worth of anti-inflammatory he'd been prescribed didn't play well with his daily dose of ibuprofen, and it caused a bleeding ulcer and a couple other minor bleeds and a tear in his stomach lining.

    They were able to inject some type of clotting agent into the smallest bleeds, clamped a little larger one, and the ulcer they'll treat without invasive surgery.

    I don't know how much longer he'll have to be in the hospital, but he sure had me worried.

    His heart rhythms are back to normal, so that's not a cause for concern right now. They think the rapid blood pressure changes he was experiencing because of the GI bleeds was causing the arhythmia they saw on the EKG.

    He's resting a little more comfortably today, and we're all anxiously awaiting the rest of his test results.



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Chronicle Comments

Silent Bob has 3 comment s on this chronicle.

  1. BEN BEN
    Posted On Feb 22 2009

    Tell Boo we're all thinkin of him and we hope to see him around here soon!

    I'll email you a design mockup of a pretty neat flier design for our 2v2 Halo 3 & GH:WT Tournament to show him while he's recovering and as I mentioned in another message, the new GoGcast may eat some time of relaxing for him too Wink

    Keep us updated and thanks for sharing. Get well soon Boo!

  2. JackDaniels624 JackDaniels624
    Posted On Feb 22 2009

    Geeze, I hope everything turns out okay. I've not had very good experiences with relatives going to hospitals, so I know how scary it can be. If you get a chance tell him I hope for the best.

  3. Dynafire Dynafire
    Posted On Feb 21 2009

    I'm glad to see he's mostly recovered from the initial episode. Give him my best, and I hope he's back to normal soon.