My mom needs prayers...... - Page 5

Hi Friends . Vibes/prayers still needed for my mother

Haven't updated in a few months. Things for my mother are just not letting up. It has been one thing after another. She is still in the back brace. Her back is healing, but not as quickly at they had hoped. So she is stuck in the "turtle shell" till beginning of December. Five months now.

She has also been in and out of the emergency room for kidney stones and bladder infections. It has been extremely painful for her. About three days ago, she spent another night at the emergency room for another kidney stone. Came home and I had just spoke with her that day about noon to check on her after her emergency room episode from the night before and she was very, very thick tongued. Said it was the drugs and that she had to sleep now. I told her I would call in an hour to talk with dad after he returns from the pharmacy. My mom was home alone. My dad called me a couple of hours later to say an ambulance just picked up mom . He said he returned home from the errands, and she was shaking, couldn't move, and was unresponsive. I have some guilt because I didn't pick up on that thick tongued talking as a sign of something more serious. She has been taking pain pills and I have heard her speak like that before, but this was a bit more. How could I have not had a sense of that and called my dad immediately on his cell to get home . She was put into ICU for two day. MRI's, brain scans, blood test, etc. We thought she had a stroke. Found out it is her heart along with sleep apnea. That is what must have happened to her back in July, She did fall asleep at the wheel and she has a heart condition. She is home today and resting. Now she will receive the proper medication for her condition and has a great doctor (cardiologist) now.

My sister and I are just furious with the hospital in Green Bay - specifically the cardiologist. We are going to look into why she wasn't followed up and lodge a "complaint" to the hospital and doctor. When my mom was in the hospital a couple of month's ago, she did have some issues with her heart racing and and some arthymia (spelling ) problems. She was put on some type of medication. But when she went to the nursing home, the medication didn't go with her . I just do not get WHY that doctor didn't follow up with my mom . Her heart condition should not have been overlooked like that . Her doctor was surprised that she didn't have a full blown cardiac arrest that day at home. SO It is another MIRACLE my mother survived that. Her angel's have been very busy watching over her lately.

I only pray that we are finally past some of these serious health troubles and on our way to her having life back very, very soon and some sort of "normalcy". She deserves it and I am grateful she is still with us
Lauren

Thank you all so very much for your prayers and vibes. I told my mom about all of you and how many people care . She was quite emotional this morning on the phone - of course, I did not cry ...... I let her just unload on me. It was about time that she did. It just has been all too much for her now and she just lost it. I told her that she really has been so very, very strong and stoic through ALL of this and that her life has been turned upside down since July 5, the day of the accident. I will call her again, later today. She felt much better at the end of our phone call and we were laughing about things. She was all depressed having to wear the back brace still and now diaper's. I told her that she is lucky she made it to the age of 76 and not needing diaper's before that because on some day's I feel like I need a diaper and I am twenty eight years younger than her I was trying to do or say anything to get her to laugh and feel better about her situation. THINGS WILL get better, I just know it !!!!!

You are all wonderful friends, and my mom and I appreciate your thoughts and concerns

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!!! About the "depends"..... life is funny isn't it.... You are born living in diaper's for a few years, then when you are elderly, out come the diaper's again..... Not sure that is so funny though . But, glad they DO exist. I also joked with mom that they should come out with decorated "depends". Some with sailboats and golf clubs for the men, and some with garden flower's and birds for the women!!! She thought that was hysterical. I even threw in the idea of a "thong" depend