Down the rabbit hole

Thursday and Friday blended into one as the testing and evaluation went well into the night.  At 0700, with the start of a new shift everything went into full speed.  Pete's labs starting coming back indicating that something seriously was not right. This morning Pete was transferred to Swedish First Hill ICU where we were met by a team of doctors. Almost as soon as he was settled into his room, the transport team from OR came up to prep him for exploratory surgery to see what was wrong.  AT this point we believed that he just had retained a stone from the gallbladder removal and had an infection brewing as a side effect.  At this point I knew Pete was ill, but did not realize the extent of his illness.  I was not prepared for him to come out of his surgery sedated and intubated, with no clear diagnosis insight.