And now, off to ER

Not even 24 hours after arriving home, K is heading to the Littleton Hospital ER. She has been complaining of a very painful and "crunchy" neck when she moves her head around. Lorene says they are skipping her first dialysis after coming home, and going to ER soon. They called the office of her neurosurgeon, who did the surgery to fuse her neck in 2012, and both he and his backup are out of the office until next week. They recommended going to ER for this.

She told her doctors at Swedish hospital about this multiple times, and they were not even a little bit interested. I think they have a one-track-mind approach to resolving the primary issue for being there, and letting people deal with anything else once they go home. The problem with that thinking, is that it took two months to get her home.

Update: The X-ray indicated vertebrae C3-5 are not well aligned. But it could just be the angle they took it. So now they're taking her off for a CT scan. No MRI allowed, because of her ICD.

Update: The trauma doc Dr Pico says the CT scan indicates a new fracture in the C1 area. Don't know the next step. They're checking with the neurosurgery office. I came home to check on Mandy. Soooo tired...

Update: Back to hospital for a minute. They'll be checking her potassium to see if they need to dialyze her tonight. No news from neurosurgery.