Sorry it's been a while since I posted something. The past week has been crazy to say the least. It started out pretty good and then got kind of wild. Tuesday we had someone coming over to install a new window A/C unit at my mom's house. The old one seemed to be goin kaput. When they turned the new one on, it didn't even work, so back to Home Depot (Paul and Karen) to take it back and they went to Lowe's and bought another one. We were waiting to have someone call us to install the new one, hopefully the next day. On Wednesday AM I took Mom to a doctor's appointment and then to pre-op for an outpatient procedure. The process ended up taking about 4 hours and she was very tired at the end of that ordeal. I arrived home with her and she should have fallen fast asleep, instead she slept for about 30 minutes and woke up with some strange symptoms. She didn't really know where she was and some of her words were a little strange. She didn't even know who I was. The home health nurse was called and she came in and said that all of her vitals were good and that she thought maybe she was just tired. I put her in bed and she finally fell off to sleep. Well, we thought the day was looking a little bit better, and BAM!!! The A/C unit that was waiting to be replaced, completely QUIT working. So you can imagine how hot it got, a whopping 97 degrees in her house at 6:00pm. Paul and Suzannah proceeded to change out the new A/C themselves. We called TJ, my nephew, and he came over after a little while and the three of them removed the old A/C unit and installed the new one. By 11:00am we had a new A/C unit and it was immediately cooler. Of course, we kept mom cool with fans etc. she was the most important one, but I can only tell you that it was hotter in the house than outside it seemed.
You know I am amazed at my daughter, she just jumped right in and did whatever it took to help her Dad. She is such a pleasure, she has alot of my mom's attributes. Truly my daughter has been so blessed to have my mom play such a large part in her life. So by now we think all is good and we have made it through the week. Little did we know that we were in for more.
The next morning, Thursday, Karen said that she had a good night and her caregiver, Sherry, (I can't even tell you how blessed we are to have Sherry, she is so good with Mama) She had a really good day and after we put her in bed for the night we all retired to our respective places. About 12:50am on Friday morning, Karen called me and said that something was not quite right and so I went next door and Mom was talking and it was a steady stream of words, some that we could make out and most that we could not. We called the ambulance and took her to Gulf Coast Hospital. We arrived there at 1:30am and for 5 hours she had a constant stream of unintelligble words until she wore herself out and finally fell asleep. She was admitted to the hospital at 6:30am and had several tests, MRI of her head and a CT scan of her hip. We saw Dr. Shumate, what a great doc and friend, and several others. We are waiting to hear if she has had another stroke or what is going on. It is felt that some of the delirium could have been caused by an infection. I guess we will soon find out for sure.
So here we sit in the hospital again. Mom seems to be doing well today and during the day yesterday and last night she seemed to come out of the "delirium". It will be nice to know exactly what has happened and what we need to do.
She is resting well today and I have found time to blog a little. Stay tuned, you never know what type of things we will experience in the future.
Hopefully she will get well quick. We certainly appreciate everyone's prayers and concern. I am not sure how you can make it through something like this without your friends and family.
I know that you hear people say "take one day at a time" I have decided in the two months following my mom's stroke that the only way to really survive is to take every moment at a time. Through this experience I can say that I have a different perspective on life and I am trying to focus on the important things and let everything else take care of itself. Sometimes that is easier said than done, but I am trying really hard!! The most important thing right now is that I am BY MY MOTHER'S SIDE!!!!
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