God and me

It's been a while since I posted. I have drawn closer to God in the past 10 days, done a lot of reading and a lot of praying...and a lot of knitting. LOL

My Mom has been very ill. I took her to the hospital on Saturday August 14th with vomiting, stomach pain and miserable feeling. She was admitted. Doctors wanted to check and see if this was caused by medication or possibility of something like cancer in colon or stomach or thereabouts. They stopped a lot of her medications including her blood pressure meds. They prepped her for colonoscopy using pills for purging which are primarily salt. Colonoscopy and endoscopy were negative for any problem growths. She was in good shape in that area. However, lack of medication and the pills for purging sent her blood pressure through the roof. It was so high the machines would not register it. It had to be taken manually. It took a whole day to get it down. The surgeon was scheduled to see her about her gallbladder. But on Wednesday had a heart-attack. Gallbladder surgery was canceled. More tests were scheduled for her heart. A heart surgeon came to see her for a heart cath. After he had examined her he recommended that she be taken to Ashland, KY which is about 65 miles away.

She was taken to Ashland, Kings Daughters Hospital on Thursday morning. Tests began immediately and a heart cath was scheduled for Friday morning. On Friday morning the nurses could not wake Mom up so the cath was canceled. She was in a deep deep sleep until 10 am, could not be aroused. They thought she had had a stroke. More tests and scans were done. She had a heart echo scan and EKG and lots of blood work over the next 2 days. On Monday morning she had the heart cath. It was determined that her heart was doing ok. All the stints and grafts from previous surgeries were working. No new ones were put in. She was oked for gallbladder surgery. A surgeon was called and she was put on the schedule for Tuesday. On Tuesday she had her surgery by laproscopy and it went well. Except they had trouble waking her up. She was in recovery about 8 hours then she was moved to ICU. We had expected to go home. She spent that night in ICU and still they wouldnt let her go home. She was put out in a room on Wednesday and told she could go home Thursday morning. On Thursday morning the doctor released her pending the surgeon seeing her one more time. But nobody told the surgeon. After waiting all day until 8 pm, my daughter went in search of the surgeon, got her signed out and she is on her way home now.

it has been an awful 2 weeks for all of us. My sister and I have been staying with her 24/7.

By the way.. I have read a lot of my Bible and I am on schedule.