Almost Home Bound...AGAIN
I know I have said this a million and ten times to everyone that I know and a couple of people that I don't know but if I ever have to see the inside of another hospital it will be too soon for me. Over the past several months I have seen more hospitals and more doctors and nurses and the whole nine yards with my mom. I know she is sick of seeing them too.
So, yesterday she was scheduled to be released. Notice I said scheduled and nothing goes according to schedule when you are dealing with hospitals. We, me my son and my nephew all go up there in anticipation of a release and taking her home and praying that we never see another hospital again or for the next 20 months at least. We get there and my mom's sitter, she needs a sitter to sit with her since my independent mom has a habit of getting out of bed and trying to get to the bathroom herself and they have classified her as a fall risk, therefore she has a person in the room with her at all times. Well single file into the room and her roommate's daughter was right ahead of us. She proceeded to close the curtains around her mom for privacy and we moved on to the next bed by the window where my mom was. Her sitter and her were watching TV. I should say more that the sitter was watching TV and my mom was watching the sitter. She doesn't trust strangers too much. And as far as my mom is concerned everyone in the hospital is a stranger. We got there and my mom was happy to see us and happy anticipating that she would go home later that day.
We sat and sat and sat and talked and listened to the roommates conversation with her daughter, doctors, and then her husband. You can't help but hear in a room with no walls separating you two and as loud as they talked you probably would have heard them anyway. My mom was a little irritated with the volume of their conversation but I told her that there was nothing you could really do but just go with the flow and bask in the promise that she was home bound by the end of the day. So, since we didn't know what time that was we decided to make a quick to the store for some of her favorite or new favorite foods since she is on a totally different diet then before so she could have them when she got home.
Since my nephew parked the car 2 million blocks away from the hospital, parking is always a nightmare, and I had walked those 2 million blocks once my old legs and tired feet were not feeling that walk back to the car so I told him to get the car and we, my son and I, would wait across the street from the hospital. We are waiting and chatting with other people waiting and then all of a sudden I look up and see my mom's nurse running across the street towards us. Instantly, my heart started racing and my mind did too thinking that something horrible happened to my mom in the 3 minutes that we were gone. And the frantic look on her face didn't help things either. She runs over to me and asks if my mom is with me. I get scared and scream no and she says oh we can't find her. I said to look in the bathroom in her room. When we left she was in the bathroom with the sitter. So, we all race back up to the room like chickens with our heads cut off and find her in the bathroom with the sitter. If I had to run any further or any more they were going to have to admit me too.
After that scare we went to the store. We went over budget as usual and dropped off the food to return to the hospital before they really lost her. We waited. Talked to doctors and nurses and anticipated the papers being signed by the doctor so that we could leave that place. But, that didn't happen. It seemed that when my mom last went to the bathroom her heart rate went up. Probably from all the excitement of us running looking like death warmed over bursting in the bathroom looking for her. But, nonetheless, she was there for another night and was assured that tomorrow, which would be today that she would be out.
As you can probably already guess from the way this is going today she isn't coming home because they want to try a new medicine and want to keep her another day for observation and she has developed another problem associated with prune juice that the sitter gave her yesterday. So, another pill to slow that down and a new medication.
Here's hoping that when the sun rises tomorrow before it sets again she will be home.
So, yesterday she was scheduled to be released. Notice I said scheduled and nothing goes according to schedule when you are dealing with hospitals. We, me my son and my nephew all go up there in anticipation of a release and taking her home and praying that we never see another hospital again or for the next 20 months at least. We get there and my mom's sitter, she needs a sitter to sit with her since my independent mom has a habit of getting out of bed and trying to get to the bathroom herself and they have classified her as a fall risk, therefore she has a person in the room with her at all times. Well single file into the room and her roommate's daughter was right ahead of us. She proceeded to close the curtains around her mom for privacy and we moved on to the next bed by the window where my mom was. Her sitter and her were watching TV. I should say more that the sitter was watching TV and my mom was watching the sitter. She doesn't trust strangers too much. And as far as my mom is concerned everyone in the hospital is a stranger. We got there and my mom was happy to see us and happy anticipating that she would go home later that day.
We sat and sat and sat and talked and listened to the roommates conversation with her daughter, doctors, and then her husband. You can't help but hear in a room with no walls separating you two and as loud as they talked you probably would have heard them anyway. My mom was a little irritated with the volume of their conversation but I told her that there was nothing you could really do but just go with the flow and bask in the promise that she was home bound by the end of the day. So, since we didn't know what time that was we decided to make a quick to the store for some of her favorite or new favorite foods since she is on a totally different diet then before so she could have them when she got home.
Since my nephew parked the car 2 million blocks away from the hospital, parking is always a nightmare, and I had walked those 2 million blocks once my old legs and tired feet were not feeling that walk back to the car so I told him to get the car and we, my son and I, would wait across the street from the hospital. We are waiting and chatting with other people waiting and then all of a sudden I look up and see my mom's nurse running across the street towards us. Instantly, my heart started racing and my mind did too thinking that something horrible happened to my mom in the 3 minutes that we were gone. And the frantic look on her face didn't help things either. She runs over to me and asks if my mom is with me. I get scared and scream no and she says oh we can't find her. I said to look in the bathroom in her room. When we left she was in the bathroom with the sitter. So, we all race back up to the room like chickens with our heads cut off and find her in the bathroom with the sitter. If I had to run any further or any more they were going to have to admit me too.
After that scare we went to the store. We went over budget as usual and dropped off the food to return to the hospital before they really lost her. We waited. Talked to doctors and nurses and anticipated the papers being signed by the doctor so that we could leave that place. But, that didn't happen. It seemed that when my mom last went to the bathroom her heart rate went up. Probably from all the excitement of us running looking like death warmed over bursting in the bathroom looking for her. But, nonetheless, she was there for another night and was assured that tomorrow, which would be today that she would be out.
As you can probably already guess from the way this is going today she isn't coming home because they want to try a new medicine and want to keep her another day for observation and she has developed another problem associated with prune juice that the sitter gave her yesterday. So, another pill to slow that down and a new medication.
Here's hoping that when the sun rises tomorrow before it sets again she will be home.
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