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arguchikthey released my dad this morning (i guess it was afternoon in michigan). they still don't know what's wrong, and his white count is still high but lower than it was. they're doing a blood culture.
late last night my brother remembered that my dad had 2 vaccine shots yesterday--a flu vaccine and a pneumonia vaccine.
he told me that when he called me earlier. he also told me that my dad had a seizure yesterday--that's why my brother called the ambulance. after my dad lay down in his recliner (not on the couch like i thought yesterday--this only matters to me, really, because i can visualize the scene) the second time, when my brother tried to wake him my dad woke up but couldn't move. he was trying to move but couldn't, and then he started having a seizure. by the time the paramedics got there, my dad still couldn't move, and they had to lift him out of his chair onto the gurney. the paramedic told my brother that he was pretty sure my dad was having a stroke.
i guess they can't really rule out a stroke altogether, just because a CT scan didn't show active or recent bleeding in the brain. strokes are often caused by clots or other kinds of blockage.
so i'm wondering if the elevated white cell count could have been caused by the vaccine, but then in turn could have triggered something like a stroke. white cells are bigger than red cells, and we already know that my dad has vascular disease and reduced blood flow to his brain, so perhaps the excess white cells caused a clog somewhere.
the hospital visit triggered a new delusion in my father, too, and my brother said he was completely fixated on this all night--told every doctor, every nurse he came in contact with. i think it started in the waiting room. apparently my dad has a secret device implanted in his body. he works for the navy--he's not in the navy, he just works for them--on a secret project, and he can't tell anyone what it is or what he does, but they have to be careful taking images of his body because if they see the device on one of their scans, they will be in big trouble with the navy, and the navy will come after them.
uh..............wow. (dad was actually in the navy when he was younger, and was a reserve officer when i was a kid, until he retired from that. the only experimental thing the navy did to or near him was to test the first hydrogen bomb at enewetak when my dad was on the deck of a destroyer like....35 miles away.)
late last night my brother remembered that my dad had 2 vaccine shots yesterday--a flu vaccine and a pneumonia vaccine.
he told me that when he called me earlier. he also told me that my dad had a seizure yesterday--that's why my brother called the ambulance. after my dad lay down in his recliner (not on the couch like i thought yesterday--this only matters to me, really, because i can visualize the scene) the second time, when my brother tried to wake him my dad woke up but couldn't move. he was trying to move but couldn't, and then he started having a seizure. by the time the paramedics got there, my dad still couldn't move, and they had to lift him out of his chair onto the gurney. the paramedic told my brother that he was pretty sure my dad was having a stroke.
i guess they can't really rule out a stroke altogether, just because a CT scan didn't show active or recent bleeding in the brain. strokes are often caused by clots or other kinds of blockage.
so i'm wondering if the elevated white cell count could have been caused by the vaccine, but then in turn could have triggered something like a stroke. white cells are bigger than red cells, and we already know that my dad has vascular disease and reduced blood flow to his brain, so perhaps the excess white cells caused a clog somewhere.
the hospital visit triggered a new delusion in my father, too, and my brother said he was completely fixated on this all night--told every doctor, every nurse he came in contact with. i think it started in the waiting room. apparently my dad has a secret device implanted in his body. he works for the navy--he's not in the navy, he just works for them--on a secret project, and he can't tell anyone what it is or what he does, but they have to be careful taking images of his body because if they see the device on one of their scans, they will be in big trouble with the navy, and the navy will come after them.
uh..............wow. (dad was actually in the navy when he was younger, and was a reserve officer when i was a kid, until he retired from that. the only experimental thing the navy did to or near him was to test the first hydrogen bomb at enewetak when my dad was on the deck of a destroyer like....35 miles away.)
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