Setback

My mom is back in th hospital again. She was just fine a couple of days ago, and then she started running a fever and not being able to keep food down. The nurses thought that she was just coming down with the flu. This afternoon they found inflammation on her legs and running up her body. She was running a 104 temp and they could hear fluid in her lungs so they sent her off to the emergency room.

I hung around the ER waiting area with two of my sisters and my brother in-law while they prepped her to move up to the ICU. Apparently they had a lot of trouble with the big IV that they are running into her neck, because they were trying to run it for the fifth time when I finally went home at 1AM.

I did get to see her for a couple of minutes around midnight, after they had got her up to her room in th ICU. She was pooped and could barely keep her eyes open. She was wearing the oxygen mask that goes over the mouth & nose so she couldn't really talk. I don't know about my sisters but I was flashing back to spring when she was there with the breathing tube and eventually the tracheostomy. None of us said much about it but I think that we're all worried about mom having to go through all that again.

OK, need to turn in and get some shut-eye. I plan on getting up early and buying a snow rake (Tool for getting snow off the roof). I promised my dad I would stop by and take care of his roof for him, plus I need it for my own roof too. Oh yeah - I gave my sisters & brother in-law the URL to this web site - Who knows I may have just increased my readership by 75%.