Tuesday DH and I went up to the hospital to see a guy from work who'd had surgery on Monday (had his colon resected as he had polps(I know I butched the spelling on that!) and they were growing sideways; not up and down where they can use the little pinchers to pinch them off.). Jerry looked great, was feeling good (told me how much he loved his epidural, now I know why you ladies get these when you have babies! LOL) he was anxious to go home. Jerry is Alan's driver so we know him pretty well. Jerry was also very good to me when I hired on and taught me alot as far as the driving aspect of the job.
Wednesday night while at work our battalian chief sent out an email letting us know that Jerry had been taken to the ICU. (his wife noticed he wasn't look good, the LPN said oh he looks just fine. His wife went and got the RN who said, you're right let's check his O2 sat. rate, it was 68%! he went right into ICU as he was on oxygen)
Thursday DH called in sick, he was feeling very unwell. We got a call around 10 am from one of the guys that went to check on Jerry, He had just coded. We flew out of the house and just as we were pulling into the parking lot of the hospital we got another call that they had just pronounced Jerry dead!!
I am just so sick over this. Jerry was 62 and in good health, though he'd had a heart attack 5 years ago. Alan is just torn up. The family set up a special visitation this morning just for the firemen as his wife knew how much we needed that. Jerry was cremated this afternoon and his funeral will be held tomorrow. His wife asked that Alan play his bagpipes as she knows how much Jerry loved to listen to Alan playing them at the station. I have to work tomorrow so don't know if we'll be able to attend or not, that is still up in the air.
I just feel so sad....