Hi All,
I find it so hard to believe that on the 1st of July everything was normal with my sister--but she started having seizures, was hospitalized and had to have two emergency brain surgeries in one week. She is blind now because her visual cortex was damaged when her brain swelled uncontrollably.
The backstory is here
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55926
So now she thinks that her blindness is the main issue, and she is worried about living out her life as a blind woman. She doesnt yet understand that her tumor is cancerous and malignant, and the survival rate is horrible (18% make the one-year mark). One of the doctors told her today, but it went straight over her head. So we feel its going to fall to us to explain it.
She's not always completely aware of whats going on--sometimes she says she doesnt understand how we can see her, or sometimes she will just forget everything thats happened alltogether.
Sometimes I feel ok, and that she is doing better; sometimes I am just horribly depressed at situation and want to cry; sometimes I feel like I am going to fall apart because Im so tired. I need to be a support for my parents, who taking this especially hard. My dad is a minister and has been a rock for so many families in their dark times--he never thought it would happen to us. But the good thing is, people remember him and there are many many people coming out of the woodwork to help out. My mom is, predictably, in pieces. My husband has been super-supportive and great.
I dont want to depress anyone, and I know that there isnt an answer that anyone can give me . . . I just felt like I needed to write and get some things off my heart.
Thanks y'all,
Hannah
I find it so hard to believe that on the 1st of July everything was normal with my sister--but she started having seizures, was hospitalized and had to have two emergency brain surgeries in one week. She is blind now because her visual cortex was damaged when her brain swelled uncontrollably.
The backstory is here
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55926
So now she thinks that her blindness is the main issue, and she is worried about living out her life as a blind woman. She doesnt yet understand that her tumor is cancerous and malignant, and the survival rate is horrible (18% make the one-year mark). One of the doctors told her today, but it went straight over her head. So we feel its going to fall to us to explain it.
She's not always completely aware of whats going on--sometimes she says she doesnt understand how we can see her, or sometimes she will just forget everything thats happened alltogether.
Sometimes I feel ok, and that she is doing better; sometimes I am just horribly depressed at situation and want to cry; sometimes I feel like I am going to fall apart because Im so tired. I need to be a support for my parents, who taking this especially hard. My dad is a minister and has been a rock for so many families in their dark times--he never thought it would happen to us. But the good thing is, people remember him and there are many many people coming out of the woodwork to help out. My mom is, predictably, in pieces. My husband has been super-supportive and great.
I dont want to depress anyone, and I know that there isnt an answer that anyone can give me . . . I just felt like I needed to write and get some things off my heart.
Thanks y'all,
Hannah