She's Back In The Hospital Again.

[Gina]

Janet I hope all the tests turn out well and hopefully with the right medicines they can keep everything under control. I feel so bad for your mom she has gone through so much lately. She is in my prayers and so is your uncle I hope they both come home before Christmas. Please get some rest.. hugs !

[Janet]

Since we got snow overnight and have a two hour delay...I won't be able to go see Mom until after 4 o'clock...if then. Rick has his 4 wheel drive truck and Ricky will have his to go to work. Hopefully roads will be much better by then.

[lynne b]

Janet, I hope your mom is doing much better today and they can get the stress test done to see if there is more damage to her heart. Hopefully with the right meds they can get her to feeling better again.

Sorry it has taken me so long to post here, since we talk about things on the phone i sometimes forget to post also.

Take care of yourself to, we don't need anything happening to you.
Love ya!!

[paula1961]

Janet I hope your Mom is improving. I know how you feel! It is just awful to see them in this shape. Heart failure is a horrible thing. On the patient and on the family. Daddy used to cry too. It was the saddest thing. I am certainly praying for your Mom to get better soon. You are in my thoughts everyday dear friend.

[Blueyes]

Just wondering how your mom is tonight....

[Janet]

The nuclear test they did showed abnormalities. They wanted to do a heart cath but Mom said no. Drs said it really wasn't safe considering her being on dialysis. She would rather try to manage it with meds.

I did bring her home yesterday, but she's weak.

[judy]

I guess you'll be running over there all the time? I hope she regains her strength and starts feeling good soon!

[gja1000]

Janet, I just read where your mom is back in the hospital again. I didn't know that! What happened?

[Janet]

I tried posting with my son's Ipod Touch when I was at the hospital, but obviously that didn't work..lol. Hope I didn't post it somewhere else on the forum and end up repeating myself.

My Mom always goes to my younger brother's house Christmas Eve and eats supper. They had pizza. At about 8:30, they brought her to my house because she always spends the night and wakes up with us to open presents. It took my brother and I both to get her into the house...she was just weak and shaky. She told me she had a BM at my brother's house and there was blood.

After an hour...she decided she would go ahead and go to bed. At about 10:30 I heard her calling me and she was having chest pains. She wanted a nitro pill because it frightened her of course, but then took a tums. The pain lessoned and we sat up and talked abit and then both lied down and went to sleep. I woke after about 30, minutes and went to sleep on the couch so I could hear her better than in my bed. She likes the bedroom really warm and I just can't take it.

I got up with her a few times so she could go to the bathroom and each time, it was a BM with blood. We stayed up since it was 5:30 and I fixed some cinnamon rolls. She had a roll, coffee and some juice. Mom was just so weak and couldn't walk or stand by herself so I told her I wasn't going to let her go to my older brother's house for dinner, but I was taking her to the ER instead. She wasn't happy but agreed.

I felt so bad for Mom and she was crying...saying "why me"...."why am I being punished?"

The GI Dr. came in this morning and said that they would be putting Mom on a liquid diet starting tomorrow at 6:30 and plan for a colonoscopy, but she still needed to be bleeding to know where the blood is coming from.

The heart Dr. came in and said that from her last stress test, there was damage and blockages. That we were not to worry about that now because they needed to get her bleeding stopped because it stresses the heart. Her heart enzymes are high, the EKG didn't show another heart attack of any kind, but the bleeding could be causing it to be high. As soon as they get the bleeding stopped, they will be doing an angio something/heart cath? But it was important to get the bleeding stopped first.

That is where we are now. Mom wanted me to spend the night, but I needed to get some laundry done so I told her I would be at the hospital tomorrow around noon and then possibly spend the night then.

I hope they can fix what is wrong....I'm exhausted. Been with Mom everyday for almost a week and a half and almost fell asleep at the wheel coming home from the hospital last night. I won't be driving that tired/sleepy ever again.

I would really appreciate you keeping Mom in your prayers.