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He was discharged quite soon after the test, and the drugs apparently removed the normal inhibitions on his behavior. He spent the whole hour's ride home not just criticizing my driving, but grabbing my arm and the steering wheel on repeated occasions to try to get me to change lanes or make turns when I didn't plan to make those maneuvers. Several times, he threatened me with violence if I did not pull over and let him drive, and on one occasion he attempted to get out of the car while we were traveling on a multilane highway, presumably with the intention of hitchhiking home.
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Oh my! I might suggest that if you need to do this in the future, you bring along another person -- and that person and your husband stay in the BACK seat while you drive in the front.
If it makes you feel any better - I drove my H after a colonoscopy and he had a reaction to the Versed (sp?) which made him loopy. He refused my help in getting re-dressed, and then fell to the floor with a thud when trying to put his pants on. He beamed like a little boy when his pressures, heart rate, were "good" -- as though he'd gotten an A on a test. He walked like a drunk man in the parking lot, even though I was holding him. The funniest part was that he repeatedly told the nurses that the doctor had prescribed that I (wife) do .. well, let's just say certain marital acts ... to make him feel better -- he would NEVER talk like that. The nurses were amused and he was just so mortified when he found out that he had said such things. Like your H, he remembers none of this. My heart goes out to you if you have to do this periodically with your H!