Back home now

I arrived home last night after leaving monday to go to Chicago for my Mom. Mom has been quite sick this year with a series of things. She hasn't been to the Dr. in so many years she is really lucky as far as the health goes she is 83. She has a bad infection that has gotten in her blood stream, this was caused from her ureter being abnormal since birth. I can remember all my ligh her complaining about backaches. Apparently her right kidney sits on her pelvis, causing it to become twisted and clogged after all these years. The clogg lead to a very high grade infection called uroseptic. She also has a prolapsed uterus which could have caused this to happen to the kidney. not sure at this point. She had atrial fibrialation when I walked in her hospital room the night I drove there at 3 am. they moved her to CICU on Tuesday morn. She has high blood pressure too. When you go into ICU or CICU it is an ILLinois state law to be swabbed for the MRSA infection now. She tested positive for this which freaked us all out! We had to all wear gloves and plastic gowns before entering her room, I even stayed one night and slept in a plastic gown and latex gloves that was not a good night! Because of the infection she is talking crazy stuff and it is scary! I don't think Mom will ever be the same her mind has been deteriorating a little at a time I have noticed in the last 8 months. She had a stent put into the kidney on Wed. or Thursday. Then they came in yesterday the urologist cleared her, the cardiologist cleared her, the infectious disease Dr. said about 2-3 more weeks on the antibiotics. Then the bad news she the gynecologist came in and said that in the ultrasound and cat scan they seen a tumor or growth on her ovaries so she has to go for a MRI and ultrasound today (mon). i really didn't want to come home and hate being this far away when my Dad needs me so much. This is one of the hardest things for me to go through seeing my Mom suffer and my Dad trying to take care of her and being afraid but yet so strong. She can be very mean to my Dad and the nurses trying to hit them and pinching me telling me to knock it off and she was going to report me for making her eat her lunch. Sometimes it is funny and all you can do is laugh and sometimes it upsets you when she starts acting mean or talking crazy. Thanks for everyones support and prayers it means a lot and we will all need many more. If you read all this thank you and God bless you