I haven't written anything for a long time. Two months ago my mom went into the hospital because of stomach pain and dehydration. Her blood pressure become very high and then her heart went into atrial fibralation. She couldn't stop vomiting and had to give her IV antinausea medication and then at the same time was high blood pressure medicine.
Twenty-three years ago my mom was diagnosed with stage four cancer. They removed her reproductive organs and did chemo and radiation. She survivied it for twenty-years after treatment. The down side was her body stopped producing magnesium and had diaerrha and vomiting. These epidodes increased in frequency to about every three weeks, increased in duration to four days and they were strong episodes.
Last September I brought her into an Urgency Room. They gave her IV for dehdraytion and anti-diarreha and anti-nausea medication. That seemed to help until May.
My mom had high blood pressure for the past two or three years. But recently she was having problems keeping it in range.
After three days in the hospital, my mom was able to take her medication and start on a liquid diet. The last day she was able to eat solid foods. They looked at her heart and didn't see anything wrong but put a dye in her body to bring the heart back into normal rhythm.
My mom kept appointments with her doctor as she was on steriod to help the inflammation of her lower GI (due to the radiation). Her blood pressure went goofy again and at one visit, her doctor found her in atrial fibralation again.
She went into the hosptial again with same symptons. This time they found a large hiatal hernia. Once she came home she started on a blood thinner to prevent blood clots. A INR nurse montiors her blood for how easily she would bleed or clot due to the medicine.
I brought her to her last doctor appointment. He and the cardiologist wanted to keep her on the thinner. They had two options for the future; the montior implanted to record her heart rhytm or a device that would stop the flow from one of the ventricles. I brought her back home and had to leave for a picnic at my mother-in-laws nursing home. The next night my brother called my cell phone but I didn't have it on my back ride. I then got a call on the home phone that her neighbors found her lying on the floor in the family room. Once my brother got there and talked to the paramedics it was determind she was gone and had been for a long time due to her body being cold.
When my husband came home from the store, we went down to the house to say goodbye. My son couldn't go, it was too hard. But my husband, K and M were all down there along with my brother's family minus his youngest who was in Colorado.
We all talked and with the police. One officer stayed there and the pastor came. We prayed and talked until some family members needed to leave. The creamation society came and took my mom's body away. Then my brother and his wife, my husband and I locked up the house and left.
We meet two days later with the funeral home to discuss the service arrangements and what to do with her body and the cemetry.
I am at such a loss. We didn't expect it this soon. We can only conclude it was her heart. Now there is the items in the house to get out and put the house up for sale. I want to go back in time. I also can't wait until God brings me home and I can see my parents again.
