Jamie was a devoted partner, son, brother, uncle, step-dad and bonus Papaw.
There are no words to adequately describe this loss. We were not at all prepared for this, our world was turned upside-down. All his veins were rolling or collapsing and they had trouble trying to give him blood (even though they had told us there was no internal bleeding and hemoglobin was right where it was supposed to be that morning).
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They ran a code and began trying to bring him back to us - they had gained his pulse back twice, but just couldn't get it to continue beating. The nurse immediately checked and discovered there was no pulse. At 8:40PM, doctors explained he had been talking to a nurse answering questions when he suddenly slumped over. After rushing back to the hospital at 8PM, they wouldn't allow Sharon into his room because he had coded (she didn’t know this at the time), and there were multiple people working on him, at least 5 she could see.
Their plan was to move him back to ICU, and family should get there immediately. At 7:45PM, Sharon received a call saying there had been a change with Jamie. On Monday, 9/11, Sharon was leaving the hospital at 4:30PM and was told he had improved enough that they were transferring him out of ICU. Nurses found him slumped over and unsure if his head had hit the floor or wall and needed to determine whether the tear had possibly extended, so he received additional CT's in addition to an ultrasound to check for internal bleeding (he had all symptoms of internal bleeding and began throwing up blood for the next few days) and doctors assured these were clear, and that since the tear had not enlarged, we thought he was out of the woods and on the road to recovery. Saturday, the 9th, he decided to get out of bed on his own and had a fall. The next six days showed some improvement, and although his BP and pain were very up-and-down, he seemed to be in good spirits aside from desperately wanting to get home and back to work, back to his life. After a consult from a cardiothoracic surgeon, vascular surgeon, and another surgeon about the lower GI, it was decided they would attempt to get his blood pressure under control, lower his heart rate, and if successful, they were hopeful the tear would heal on it's own, or at least not enlarge. On 9/4/23 Jamie was taken by ambulance to the ER where doctors determined he was having an aortic dissection and needed emergency surgery, but after looking at CT results, they saw the tear was descended and Type B measuring 4cm (they don’t surgically repair unless tear is 5cm or greater).
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