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Six+ hours at the Hospital

We checked the online hospital wait times app, and it said there was only a 1 hour wait, so we decided to go in because his rash was spreading and getting redder.

When we got there, there were not very many people there, only 3 before us for triage, and the waiting room looked fairly empty.

But it was 4 hours from when we got thru triage till when we got called back to see a doctor!

Rob kept wanting me to go home and come back when he was done. But last time I took him in, they would not let me come in with him due to Covid rules, and he didn't give them all the information. There was no way I was leaving him to deal with this alone.

When the triage nurse, and the doctor asked about his prostate cancer, he told them he was NC - took me a minute to figure out what he meant. He is at stage 1C.

The triage nurse immediately said the rash was shingles when she saw it, but when the doctor saw it, she immediately said it was infected.

So, they did blood tests for infection and heart attack, ECG, and more. Thankfully they let us stay in the room until his tests came back!

His heart was OK, but his leg is infected, with Cellulitis. Antibiotics for 10 days, 4 times a day.

The next day, he couldn't remember if he took his pill even a few minutes after taking it, so I got out an old daily pill container, and put in 4 pills, telling him that once he takes one, he will know that one box is empty. It seems to be helping.

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