Bob is in the hospital

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Tuesday we saw the cardiologist, changed a couple of medications. This was a follow up report from testing in February. He said Bob needs heart catheterization. (He said I do too.) Today, Thursday, we had further follow up from the fall that Bob had before spring break. Our primary care doctor ran labs. Gave orders to change another med. Expressed her concerns and then I had my med check with her. We drove home, and had been home maybe fifteen minutes when the clinic called and told me I needed to take Bob to the ER. His potassium was critically high. He was monitored, given one bag of "normal saline" and a chest x ray. Chest x-ray was decent. Potassium came down some, but they wanted to admit him for observation. High potassium is very bad for your heart and your kidneys. The med our primary wanted to cut in half has to do with potassium balance, so she was right on top of things. She is a real smarty. We are blessed to have her. He may be released tomorrow, or the next day at the latest. I took tomorrow off of school. After they took Bob to a room, he was given a big cheeseburger, and a bowl of strawberries. He is going to have to cut out a lot of his high potassium foods. For now I am heading to bed.