Back In The Hospital

[Janet]

Yesterday started off pretty good. Mom felt good enough to go to Wal Mart and do some grocery shopping. Of course she rides one of the cart things, but she was doing good.

After we got home she started getting weaker and weaker and decided to go to bed for some rest. Her BP and temp were normal. She had been having loose stools and her hemorrhoids started hurting again. Long story short....my brothers came out and we took her back to the hospital.

Mom was severely dehydrated because of the loose stool, complaining of stomach pain and her potassium was dangerously low. She was admitted. The hospital did EKG, a scan where she had to drink this contrast stuff to see her abdomen and a chest xray. Mom has diverticulitis again, white cells are elevated, fluid in her lungs, and just not doing well.

Mom has been ill before, but this time it seems different. Unless she has a vast improvement....I just don't know if she'll make it home. They are not going to let her eat for two days....only fluid and that has always been extremely hard on her. Mom has always bounced back...but she's getting so tired.

My older brother and I didn't get home until after 2 this morning so I needed to stay home and sleep a bit. I will head over right after my route this afternoon. Not sure what I want to ask of you all at this time.....maybe prayers...that she doesn't suffer any longer or that her health can be somewhat restored, which ever is best and of course...God's Will. I feel so bad for her and all the tests they do. She gets so afraid of the tests and stresses so bad because she has such a low pain tolerance and worries how bad it will hurt...or how bad it will taste.

I wish I could stay with her at the hospital, but I'll have to make do with driving back and forth between routes.