Ma went to the hospital again

Oct 12, 2009

After five pints of blood, four days in the hosptial and her 23rd(?) endocopy in the past three years they are releasing my Mom from the hospital today. I guess I'm taking her down to a Kaiser facility in Hollywood to get evaluated for the heart procedure sometime later in the week.

I really thought I was going to have to bury her after this one. We came home from work on Thursday and it appeared that she had spent the day stuck on the loveseat, without her oxygen. She was still in her nightgown, hadn't put her support hose on. I found her glasses inside her water glass about 6 feet away(?). All I can figure is that she got confused and couldn't find the telephone. She was hyperventilating when we walked in the door at 6 p.m. Called the ambulance.

She can't remember how long she was on the love seat. But she said she started having difficulty breathing in the middle of the night (I HAVE NO IDEA WHY SHE DIDN'T WAKE ME UP. WE HAVE A BABY MONITOR ON IN HER BEDROOM FOR A REASON, FOR CHRI'SAKES!) She's usually not up when we leave for work, so nothing was out of the ordinary when we left for work/daycare.

She has gastrointestinal bleeds that can drop her hemoglobin levels (anemia) from normal to super low in a day. She also has moderate mitral and severe aortic stenosis, but she's an incredibly bad surgery risk, so they've has not wanted to put in new valves.

I'm glad she's partially out of the woods on this one. But now is time for my post-Mom-scare binge. Can't do that anymore!!

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