Anybody around I can talk to? DH just taken to hospital by a neighbour and I'm at home with the baby and panicking.

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DH started with what we thought was a migraine last night, not uncommon for him. Today it's still there but he went to work anyway. From about 3pm he started to vomit (again not unusual when he has a migraine but he usually only vomits once).

He has been sick 11 times. A colleague drove him home, I phoned the on call doctor an hour ago who said he needed to go straight to hospital as he couldn't talk on the phone. He was lying on the floor groaning and crying by this point. He's clammy and says he's freezing cold.

Obviously our car is at his work 12 miles away so I knocked on every neighbours door until I found one in and they've taken him to hospital.

I'm at home as we have a 6 month old who's in bed and I didn't want to waste time waking her and packing stuff in a bag for her.

I'm terrified. DH is a calm, reasonable man usually but couldn't string a sentence together and was just clutching his head and rolling on the floor.

Somebody talk to me.

Do I phone the hospital in a minute and see what is happening?

I think you should rule out them sending him home at this point, they will need to see what the problem is & this takes time, i am not sure about the moving him ting but why not go with MarkStretch to both places where you think he is, he probably wont be able to phone either at this point, depending on how bad he is.

I can't be of any actual help to you
but I'm sending good vibes and hope all is well with your dh
xxxxx

Hey sweetie, has your neighbour got a relative at home?

Maybe if you go & knock their door they will be able to tell you if neighbour has a mobile on him?

Perhaps if he has then you could contact him & see if he is still there with your dh, or if he has left. At least he would be able to tell you where he is.

Best of luck xoxo

Yea I was going to say wait at home for news, get a bag ready for you and baby just incase and email if/when you hear anything and want me to get you.

Hoping everything's ok.

Have you rang dh's family yet?

Are they on their way or are they waiting for more details?

SOH - try not to panic too much, no news really is good news.

Agree with ambercat - try and find out where he is, I'm sure you'll be able to speak to someone that can help.

Get your bags ready for Markstretch to help you if necessary.

SOH, you poor love. Get yourself down to the hospital and be with J.

Thinking of you both my lovely. xx

Sorry I disappeared. Have been with the neighbour's wife who is on the phone to the neighbour. He says dh is with the doctors still and she will be round the second she hears anything.

oh thats good, you have contact

oh SOH, just seen this. I hope by now you are on your way to the hospital and that poor J is just having a really bad migraine, do please ask for help, don't be shy, M will be fine with someone sitting with her. Sending all our love. xx

That's positive - atleast you've made contact of sorts. I'm sitting here thinking of you and feeling so frustrated for you, glad to see MN has swung into action though.

If you know where he is now then, how 'bout you get that lift from MS down there and be with him...

That's good SOH, at least J has the neighbour with him and he has managed to reach you.

That's brilliant - at least you have a way of finding out what's going on.

Stay with the neighbour, ask her to come round to yours. I hope she is giving you lots of support.

Please keep us posted.

Sorry I can't be of any real help but just to let you know I had symptoms very like your dh's a few years ago and turned out to be a very bad sinus infection, had to have x-rays, brain scan and everything just to rule out anything more serious so you never know it might be something like that.

SOH - could you do some expressing while you wait? might be useful to have a bit of a supply in case you need someone to babysit M later or tomorrow

Neighbour just been round. They're taking him to the big hospital, admitting him and running tests. He'll be put on a ward. I'm going to ring the MAU in a little while (the oncall doc's advice) and they will give me any news. I presume I won't be able to go and sit with him if he's admitted for tests or to the ward? I know what their visiting hours are like and they're strict.

Do I go up there? Will I just be left sitting in a corridor?

Oh God.

Hope he's ok, just take the baby with you if you need to go.

When you ring the MAU they should be able to tell you whether or not you will be able to stay with him.

My dh went into hospital a couple of years ago with a burst appendix. He went into theatre at midnight but they kicked me out when visiting ended. I had to ring the ward to check on him. They wouldn't let me stay.

Try and find out before you go up there, particularly as it'll be a logistical nightmare.

I'm still up and will be for a while yet if you need me x

I agree with Pink SOH, call mau and take their advice. Try expressing and build up some ebm so that you could leave M with someone and go up to see him when visiting times start or when mau say you can go.

thinking of you, hope you get some news soon

Just phoned the mau. First sympathetic and knowlegable person I have spoken to all night (apart from all of you of course). He said they are waiting for him to arrive and they will call me as soon as he gets there to let me know how he is. I asked if I should go up there and he said you can come up here but you may only see him briefly if at all as they'll try and transfer him to somewhere he can get some rest/treatment. I mentioned I had a baby and he said sit tight at home and he'll personally phone me with any news/developments. He's the doctor in charge tonight and I think he could hear the panic in my voice.

I can't express, I'm too wound up, nothing's coming out.

I'm so scared. He has always had migraines but this is something else entirely.

I don't know what to do with myself.

Well he sounds fab, SOH

Hope it will be some good news for you in a bit.