Praying for you guys… HUGS
Thinking happy thoughts for both of you.
Sorry to hear this, Baker. Will remember you and your mum in prayers.
Sending good thoughts to Bakermom
Just went through something similar with my mom, who had a brain aneurysm that was successfully removed. It’s all so scary.
I’m sorry you’re going through this, and I’m sending positive thoughts to you and your mother. I hope for a good outcome for her. Hugs to you if it helps.
Mom had surgery yesterday. An obstruction was removed from her bowel. The procedure went very fast, it was laparoscopic, but the surgeon had to make one other short incision to get at the obstruction. Surgery was later than planned as she got bumped twice for ER trauma cases.
Cpming up out of it has been hard for her. She’s in a lot of pain, which the staff is doing their best to manage. She had to have a tube put down her throat, through the nose, and is now wearing thick mitts so she can’t pull it out. We’ve told it they are to keep her hands warm, which is at least partly true. Being a retired RN she may see through it though. To top everything off she had a migraine headache last night. I’d intended to spend the whole night there, along with my younger sister, but I hit a brick wall and went home at about 1:15 AM. I’ve had a bit of a cold, and the dry air in the hospital wasn’t helping.
I’ll make a couple of short visits today, to keep some of the germs off of mom, and I’ll go to my workplace and do prepwork for Monday. That way when I go in there tomorrow morning I should only do about half a day, and be able to get back to the hospital for longer tomorrow.
I don’t know how long she will be in. When she is feeling better the staff will be doing a scan of her lung, which showed a “shadow”. It’s a hell of a thing when you think “I hope it’s a cold, or even pneumonia, rather than cancer.”
Thanks for letting me natter on here, I’m going to lay down again, then get up and take a long and hot shower.
Sending good thoughts your way Baker. I hope the very best for your mom and I hope you can get some good rest. Take care of yourself.
Baker, you and your mom have been through so much. You have many good thoughts from me.
Glad she is safely out of surgery, and I hope the shadow on her scan turns out to be nothing. I also hope you are taking care of yourself.
Baker, I’ve got you and your family in my thoughts. I hope your mother improves and yes, that the shadow turns out to be nothing major.
{{Thinking about you and your mom.}}
Modern medicine is really good. It’s usually right there that I stop ‘wishing I lived in some other time’.
You both are in the best of hands.
Glad its going OK so far and here’s joining you that the shadow is a glitch or something simple. Prayers continued as long as you want them.
Glad the surgery went well and hopefully her pain will begin to lessen now that the obstruction is out. Will continue praying here and following along even though you may not see me post much during the workweek I will be keeping her and all your family in my prayers.
I haven’t been to Mundane in a few days so this is the first I’ve seen of this! Prayers for her & you all, of course!
Your mother is in my prayers, Baker. And you too, because I know this has to be hard on you . I hope the pain eases off quickly and she gets better soon, and that the lung thing turns out to be no big deal.
I’ve left the hospital for the evening. She was sleeping after getting some meds for nausea and pain.
Mom sat up today in a chair, and with support was able to toddle into the bathroom. Her abdomen is still waking up, but there’s progress. She had a lot less pain. Blood pressure is okay too.
Friends want to visit but she’s not ready to recieve. Maybe Monday, but Tuesday will probably be better.
I went to work this afternoon so tomorrow morning will be a half day. I’ll relieve my sister who is spending the night. The nursing staff loves us, because we have someone to watch over her 24/7, and do little things for her. It saves them a lot of work and stress, because all the patients in this wing are high maintenence.
That’s a very happy update, Baker! Not out of the woods, but progress is so important.
How’s she doing emotionally/mentally?
Do they have any idea how long she’ll be in there still? Or is it too soon to guess?
And I hope you’re still making a little time for yourself. You need to rest and decompress at some point, so you can keep going!
Hope your Mum continues to improve and feel better.
She will probably be in for at least three more days. She’s getting better, but has had no food by mouth since Thursday evening sometime. And just today the doctors allowed her to have ice chips by mouth, before it was all moistening the lips with swabs. She’s lost a lot of weight and didn’t have that much to lose.
I get my body from my paternal grandfather’s family, big boned and stocky. Mom is slight and much finer boned.
{{{{Baker}}}} I hope she heals quickly!
Hang in there, Baker. You’re in my prayers.
Any news on the lungs?
StG