We start our 50 min drive. In the car, he thinks one of the kids is at home. Then he thinks the dog is with us and wants to know why we brought her.
He is freezing. I put the heat on tho its a beautiful day. He is wearing his winter coat. When we land up there, he is so cold in the restaurant that I put him in the car with the heat running. He is so bad looking he scares my mom. While at the restaurant, he cant add up the check or the tip and his signature is illegible.
I decide to bring him to the hospital. He is extremely angry when I bring it up. I attempt to call his brother to help me convince him but he doesnt answer. He tells me a story about bones that is so creepy, I cant take it. I tell him to stop talking to me and I give him an option. He can either go to the hospital we choose after we drop off the kids and pack some stuff, or I'll call 911 on him. He opts for the hospital of our choice.
I drop off the kids, change my clothes and pack a bag of books and a bottle of water. Off we go. I choose a hospital that is 50 min away. He is incensed but since I am driving the car I just ignore him. He cracks a few jokes along the way - pertinent jokes - and I am shocked as he never jokes. He keeps insisting we are going the wrong way. We finally pull into the hospital parking lot. I have to hold his hand to walk him to the building (never realizing I could have just drove up to the building.) His hand is on fire with fever.
We go to the Emergency Room where he tells Registration that I am the one who is nutty and I dont make sense. He has a high temp and is admitted with Change of Personality - something like that. I sit with him in the little draped off room and listen to him make less and less sense. He starts to fall asleep off and on between tests. They do a brain scan. They take his blood over and over again. A spinal tap. I hear the doc and interns talking at the desk outside the curtains and realize they think he has cancer and want to do some work for that. Finally, since they cannot stabilize him, they admit him. I head upstairs with the guy who is bringing him to his room.
They put him on the Oncology floor. I ask why but they said its because that is where they have room for him. He is now totally out of it and I head home.
I make phone calls from the car. His boss is exceedingly rude to me. But I expected that. I start the calling tree by talking to his brother first. I dont much like his family tho I like his brother so thats as far as I'll go. He'll call the rest. The decision is made to keep this secret from his mom due to her obsession.
He has no idea where he is or why. He has to be helped from the trolley to the bed.
