I realize that I have not been my usual chatty self lately, but I have a good reason. Mom is in the hospital, seriously ill, so my time and energy have been focused elsewhere.

For those of you that know Mom, she had an abdominal blockage that required surgery. That was not the real problem. THe problem seems to have been surgery. They couldn't just fo a local, she had to have general anethesia which is particularly dangerous for someone with frail health. She came out of surgery and was talking and ok, but that night she started having breathing problems and her blood pressure dropped dangerously low.

That was last Monday, it's now Wednesday of the next week. She's been on a ventilator since then and a series of medication for blood pressure, water retention, blood surgar and a couple of other things. Her kidneys were not working well, so they started her on dialasys on Monday and she is now on dau three. It is helping, but she is still very puffy and they are keeping her sedated. Another cmplication is that it appears that Mom has some cirrhosis of the liver. The tests should be back in the next few days.

The nurse I spoke with last night seemed to think that the dialysis would jumpstart Mom's kidneys which is what needs to happen. I am not sure where we go from there since the focus is the kidney function right now.

Bear w/ Us

I know I have not written for a while, but things have been crazy. For right now, Mom is in the hospital for a bowel obstruction, so I am speanding my time being with her and dealing with things at home. THere isn't much time for anything else.

Hmm

When I opened this post, I had something I was going to talk about, but now that I am here, I cna't for the life of me remember what it was. Don't you hate when that happens? Is it a function of old age? Exhaustion? Stupidity?

Things are pretty quiet right now. Thankfully we got smart after last fall and toned down the schedule so that we aren't doing something EVERY FREAKING day. We actually sit down and eat at a decent time more often than not. What a concept!

We are planning Mercedes birthday party for Feb 4. Can you believe she's going to be 5? She's so excited about it. Then again, she thinks every party or holiday is her birthday. And we have absolutely no idea what to get her. Having just come through Christmas, there isn't much she didn't get. Now the greedy little soon to be 5 year old in her wants more stuff, but she really wouldn't notice if she didn't get a darn thing. I figure there's got to be a Scooby movie or two that she hasn't gotten yet. Her party is going to be at the YMCA pool with 30 of her closest friends. I don't think I am going to do the COlstone cake though. FOr one thing, I don't want to drive that far to pick it up. For another, the joy would be lost on the 5 year old of a nice ice cream cake. The 32 year old would be overjoyed, but it's not my birthday.

Ok, next week I start going to the gym two to three days a week. No, I don't want to. Yes, I will find excuses not to go, but I am hoping if I tell people they will guilt me into sticking with. I can come up with a million reasons not to go.

I really do not want to go to work this morning. I am so exhausted from three nights with very little sleep that I might just pour the coffee over my head. I broke down and did the real thing this morning too, no decaf. I figure Derek will need some help too. He had a migraine last night so he was up late and he kept me up late.

He really, REALLY, needs to see the neurosurgeon and get the neck surgery scheduled. He's having all sorts of issues becuase of it.