Last night Chaney got a call from Cory's sister in law Stephanie that his blood pressure had spiked, his eyes were stuck open, and he was scared and asking for her, so she rushed back to the hospital. I have to stop and add the fact that Steph being with Cory was a tender mercy. In critical care, everyone gets kicked out of the room at 6:30. They are very strict about this policy. Steph decided to stay with him until the nurses came to kick her out. It was 6:45 when Cory experienced this episode and so he would have been alone. That said, they doctors think Cory was experiencing a side effect to an anti anxiety medicine they had given him. Apparently sometimes the body can freeze in strange positions on this medicine. For Cory it happened to be his eyes. Not sure why his blood pressure spiked though. So they cave him a benadryl ointment for his eyes and shut them for him. He still struggled to keep them shut. Then they gave him two rounds of blood pressure medicine because the first round didn't help at all. He also got some ambien to help him sleep. Chaney is just on her way to the hospital this morning so she will let me know this afternoon how his night went.
Cory is not so convinced that what happened is just a side effect. He thinks something else is going on in his body. The hard part about that is he is usually right. Cory seems really in tune with his body and usually knows if something is wrong a good day or so before the doctors figure it out. Lets hope Cory is wrong this time.