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Date: April 1, 2013 11:50 PM

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Dad was released from the hospital this afternoon.  It took three hours to get him discharged.  Waiting… waiting… and more waiting.

We got home around 8 PM and almost as soon as we walked through the door Dad began vomiting.  I became very concerned that he had been released too soon.  I feared I would have to turn around and take him back to the ER.  Once he stopped vomiting I checked his heart and it was stable at around 60-70 BPM.  Good!   At least it is not his heart.

I gave him some crackers and ginger ale to help settle his stomach but within 30 minutes he was vomiting it all up again.  He told me he hadn’t had a BM for three days.  Probably due to the morphine he was getting.  He took something for constipation and rested for about an hour.   After the nausea subsided a bit, I brought him some homemade veggie soup in a cup and he was able to keep that down.  He finally started feeling better and got to sleep around 11 PM…