The silence on this blog for the past few days has been due to my Mother-in-law. I’m not saying it’s her fault, just that there have been much more important things than blog posts to occupy our attention.
She was hospitalized on Tuesday, October 21 and is still in the hospital. Today is day 11 and each day has brought a new complication. She was moved to ICU Wednesday evening. Her heart is weak following the stroke she suffered in July. Blood clots have formed in her legs and spleen.
It feels as though we’ve been spending every non-working minute at the hospital. Things began looking up yesterday. Her eating has improved, as she had gone several days without food. Her blood pressure, which had been rather low for several days, has been raised and stabilized with medication.
So our past two weeks have been a little crazy. It’s amazing how emergencies clarify one’s priorities; sifting out what’s really important; what’s really deserving of our time and attention. It’s interesting how things going on in the world, things that normally demand our attention and seem so important, fade into the background and become virtually irrelevant when a crisis hits.
It's good to be home for awhile and get caught up on things. Hopefully we'll get Mom home in the next few days.
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How awful! I hope she gets better quickly and is able to return home soon.
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