Juan Has Been Hospitalized

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Here's how it went down in short.  We went to McAllen on Friday for the Pfizer booster.  All went well.  A great trip, crossed the bridge and got the vaccine just 300 meters from the border.

We went to the hotel, checked in and then went for lunch and shopping.  We took a nap, and went to HEB to purchase items for friends in Mexico.  We returned to the hotel and relaxed and had a cocktail.  As always, early to bed and then it happened.

At 2:00 a.m., in the dark of the room, I hear, "Christopher, Christoper".  I went running to his voice in the bathroom.  He had gotten up to use the bathroom and had fainted.  More on the reason for that later this week.   I found him face down in a pool of blood.  I asked him for his hand and he had no body movement at all.  I was able to upright him and called the paramedics.  

We took him to the hospital across the highway, literally 2 minutes away.  They did a CT scan, X-rays, and blood tests, stitching up the 5 cm cut on his brow.  We waited in observation but his body wasn't responding.  He had a very short, less than 2-second seizure.  Tests came back negative.  The hospital was pissed when he told them he wanted to go home to his insured care.

We drove home, it seemed like days to get there.  His universal care did the same tests and had negative results but there was still very little body movement, semi-paralyzed.  The neurologist worked him over and then transferred him to a very nice private hospital via ambulance.

They performed an MRI and tomorrow an encephalogram.  He is stable, now, an 8 out of 10 but with limited equilibrium in his walking.  

As far as discretion, we ask that you please do not post anything on Facebook just yet.  We are very private about these things because of family.  They are slowly finding out but if we were to post it his room would be inundated with visitors and right now he needs rest and time to recuperate.  The news is good so far.  

It was a very traumatic event I am still trying to process all of this and haven't had any sleep or much to eat.  Please keep him in your thoughts.  I'm sure he will recover completely but it was an experience that I hope we never have to repeat.