Emergency Room Trip

I just can't seem to catch up!! I will try and do better!! Didn't realize so many people were reading my blog!!

Pawpaw and I had a long, long night Sunday night!! Sunday afternoon he went to Brinkley to eat and found a group of friends eating frog legs so he joined them. Then he was going to visitation for a friend from CP (?). He said everyone was asking him who had been kissing him, he had red stuff on his face (lipstick), but after about 3 people asked he went to bathroom and saw that it was blood, his gums were bleeding. So by the time he got home everything he had on had blood on it. We got his mouth washed out and I put a gauze pad in his mouth and in just seconds it was full. This went on for a while, and he finally went downstairs and I put ice in his mouth and it seemed to be trying to stop. By this time it was about 10:00, it had started bleeding around 7:00. So he said he was ok and he was going to just sit up in recliner and maybe it would stop. I went to bed and phone range about 11:00, he said he was still bleeding so I went down to check on him. By this time he was getting scared and blood was everywhere, and he said he was getting light headed. So I told him we would have to go to the emergency room and so if they could stop it. He didn't fuss much, THEN!!! So off we went!! Wally decided he would take him, but I told Daddy that he didn't want Wally taking him to emergency room, he doesn't do well with Doctors!! UNDERSTATEMENT!!!

We were there for about 15 minutes and he was already in the back in a room, and cussing, and fussing because it was taking so long!! I reminded him that we had only been there 15 min., and it went from there, you all can imagine!! I was very proud of myself, keeping calm, and not getting upset with him. So the doctor came and put meds on a gauze and said that would stop it, and gave me one to take home. He had stuck a small hole in his upper inside left gum and it hit a blood vessel, that is the reason it was bleeding so much. So off we go back home to go to bed!! :-)

Got him all settled in downstairs again and he seemed better. I put the other meds and gauze in his mouth and I went back to bed. My phone range about 4:00 AM, Daddy said he was still bleeding and wanted to go back to hospital. He thought he was better and went to bed but when he woke up he had bleed all over EVERYTHING!!!! So we take off for the emergency room again!! They know us now!! :-) (No, they didn't know anyone in Cotton Plant, No, they didn't know Sheila, No they didn't care!!!) The doctor gave him shots in his gum and cauterized the place and we stayed until it stopped bleeding. I was not going home until it had stopped, we left to early the first time. But it did stop, and we made it home and back to bed - 5:00 AM.