The day began like any other day in my room on the Cardiac Wing/Floor of the UT Hospital, the centerpiece of the UT Medical Center. My doctor came in early and told me that there was a good possibility that I would be going home...
I was set-up with a Home Health Nurse who would be checking on the PICC line that would be inserted later today to administer antibiotics for another 30 days after leaving the Hospital.
My IV's were removed after lunch but the heart monitor remained and would not be disconnected until I was handed my discharge papers
While waiting in the room, my wife and I reflected on how this started with a kidney infection and a 103 degree temperature and turned into a blood pressure of 79/49, afib, heart failure, kidney failure, and the belief that I had contracted COVID.
Once my dinner was served, the nurse brought and went over my discharge papers and by 7:30 pm I was in the car and headed home... with absolutely not regrets.
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