# Mr. Shoe is in the hospital **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279 "2012-08-12T16:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 61
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1202 "2013-02-01T17:32:53Z")
Sorry to leave everyone hanging. Shoe isn’t sleeping well, so I’m not either. Anyway, no recurrence of anything remotely resembling a seizure. He was given an Rx for Keppra, an anti-seizure med, and I told him, “I don’t care how compliant you are with your other meds. You take this one!” The crappy part was, I was all set to post earlier this week, the day it happened, to tell everyone how much better things were going. The first week or so after he came home was … hard, there’s just no way to sugarcoat it. We were both frustrated with each other, exhausted, unfamiliar with how to navigate all these new obstacles, and we cried and yelled at each other and cursed and forgave each other and then started all over again. But by Monday, we were both doing better, had gotten stronger and more practiced at the choreography of transfering him to and from the couch, bathroom etc. and I was all set to post about that. We needed stuff from the grocery store, and it was his idea to come with. He had a grand ol’ time, wheeling around - he hasn’t been inside a grocery store in half a year, mind you - looking at walls of meat and cheeses and picking out all sorts of produce. We were just done, and to humor him I told him to wheel on ahead and pick out a checkout lane. He did so, I pushed the card past him, and turned my back to put the first armload onto the conveyer belt. That’s when I heard: “ **Sir?!?** Are you OK?” and turned around to find him slumped over, drooling, eyes rolling and twitching etc. I grabbed his head to hold him upright, yelled for someone to call 911. Someone brought some paper towels, and I started wiping up the froth, and trying to fight panic. An older woman in scrubs came up, grabbed a water bottle from the cooler by the cashier, and started wiping him down with ice water - that really seemed to help a lot. By the time the paramedics got there, he was already vaguely starting to come around, although his memory stops at “Let’s use this checkout lane” and starts back up when he was being wheeled on a gurney down a hospital hallway. Lotsa tests, although the results are just what **OttoDaFe** described. Oh, and I think that was supposed to be EEG up there, not EKG. Today’s his mom’s birthday - we’re going out for dinner tonight. Let’s hope for a quiet and uneventful time! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1203 "2013-02-01T17:46:08Z")
Glad to hear Mr. Shoe is back home again. Hope you guys have a nice time at dinner tonight! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1204 "2013-02-01T18:19:24Z")
Hoping for a nice dinner with no worries! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1205 "2013-02-02T01:44:38Z")
Enjoy your dinner. And yay for anonymous woman in scrubs! Glad he’s doing better (again) now. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1206 "2013-02-02T01:56:25Z")
Thank you for the update. Enjoy your dinner. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1207 "2013-02-03T16:47:03Z")
Thank you. It was nice. All quiet … for now. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1208 "2013-02-03T22:08:57Z")
I’m so glad it was (so far) a one time incident and fingers crossed it will stay that way. Also happy to hear you guys are working out ways to deal with the new normal. It will keep changing and soon you’re going to be looking back and think “How the hell did we do that?” because things will be so much better and easier that it will be hard to remember how you managed it all. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1209 "2013-02-05T03:56:20Z")
Wow, hon. What a ride this has been for the both of you. I hope this is the last of the crises for a looooooong time. You’ve had more than your share. ((((TheShoes)))) ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1210 "2013-02-18T02:13:11Z")
Have we had any updates in a while? If there’s a new thread, can someone post a linky-poo? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/1211 "2013-02-18T02:30:37Z")
Yes please. Any news (and hoping that it’s all good but still want to hear even if it’s not). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279.md?page=60)