This last Friday mom mom mentioned that she had temporally lost vision on her right eye and was worried about it. I booked her an eye appointment on Monday morning and she went to the office at 8am and they dilated her eyes and noticed some blood behind her right eye. The Doctor told mom to impermeably to go see her normal doctor and take him the info he gave mom. Since moms eyes were dilated she was unable to drive so I took her to the doctor and she got in fairly quick. Now to have full disclosure my doctor and hers is a personal friend of mine and is very blunt and doesn’t sugar coat his diagnosis.
He recommend mom go see a cardiologist and booked her an appointment for Wednesday morning to check into Southcrest hospital about 5:45 in the morning. They got her started on IV which she had to be stuck about 5 times by 4 different people trying to find a vein. We chilled out until about 8am when the surgeon came and introduced himself and explained the procedure and how long he expected it to last. About 9am they wheeled her into the OR and I migrated to the Surgery waiting room with other families. I was there about 45 minutes before the Surgeon came in and told me that they had to go in on both sides of moms groin and arteries. The hit blockage before the “Y” where they join up to the main trunk to her heart and were not able to make it past. The doctor couldn’t make it past that point and said thats not a good situation. He left and told me I could go see mom in 5 minutes. I waited to because I was updating everyone via txt messages and twitter also facebook. At this point we were limiting information to the family members and not giving the details about the blockages and such. We went back to the pre-op/recovery room and talked with mom and compared notes on the doctors before they took her for a full body CAT scan and MRI’s on her neck. We were told they would have a game plan and she should be released around 5. Mom had a hard time because she was restricted to her bed forced to lay down keep her head down and legs flat for 3 hours. She was not a happy camper. They supplied us with some turkey sandwich and chips. I had to feed her because she couldn’t lean up. After a few hours of me playing on iPad, TXT’n relatives and delegating the information I chose to release. We reached 2pm and they finally let her sit up an checked her incisions and let her walk around. She was greatfull of that. They released us with some orders for a doctors appointment scheduled for Monday afternoon and let us go at 3pm. We never got a call from the doctors to update us on the situation. I called my doctor while he was on the golf course and he was going to let me know when he got off the course. He called in a prescription for her stop smoking meds so that we can get her to stop because thats probably what caused most of this. After a while the doctor called and said he talked to both surgeons and had some tough news. They found multiple blockages in several areas of her arteries both in her legs, heart, and carotid arteries near her neck. The comments were made that she may need several surgeries and that they would be major surgeries. The risks include strokes, loss of legs, heart attack and death. We are optimistic to what is going on. We talked to the doctor last night and he said we should have no problem taking mom to Ada where her family is and were going to break the news to them all at the same time because up till now I’m the point of contact for everyone and mom isn’t talking to the family. I’m controlling what everyone knows to make sure we don’t give conflicting stories. We should leave for Ada this afternoon and arrive there sometime this evening.
I’m worried and am taking a pill for anxiety so that is helping me keep everything under control and able to stay focused. I’m scared to death that mom might not make it thru some of these surgeries and how long she might need to be off. Bills that might pile up and how her employer will handle things. I’m glad to have a great doctor that I can call on his cellphone and answer any questions I have. I have limited people that I can release and talk to without feeling like I’m bothering or being a cry baby. I am glad to have a friend thats been in the same shoes as I’m in so I have 1 person to lean on. It sucks tho having to discuss funeral, burial and what to do with all her shit if this goes bad. Its very somber when having to talk about these things when you know there is going to be a risk. On any other time I’m sure I’d not mind talking about this. Mom has no will and her comments to me is “I have only 1 son so you get it”. O’ Joy. Anyway thanks for all the prayers and good karma being sent our way and thanks for reading my rant and my way to explain to those that don’t know whats going on and now know more than most of the family. If you are or do know my family I request you not disclose what you have read in this blog. I appreciate it in advance.
-jc
If you have any questions you can hit me up via SMS/TXT “918-814-4971” I may not be able to disclose anything on voice and if I can I’ll call you after the text. I am also monitoring AIM at “roxcomrox”
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