This morning the lawyer's office called to tell me that Mom has taken a turn for the worse. I called the hospital and they said that even on the ventilator her stats, like her oxygen level, are falling. Even if she makes it through tomorrow, when I get into town, the family is going to have to decide whether to keep her on the ventilator or to let ( Read more... )

For those of you that may have seen the post regarding mom and her nursing home, I wanted to let you all know that that has been resolved. Apparently the nursing home realized they were going to lose quite a few patients because of this and, therefore, reversed their decision and kept the RTs. No worries about finding a new place, moving mom or how ( Read more... )

As most of you on ye olde flist know, my Mom has been in a nursing home since 2005. She's there for a variety of medical conditions, mostly respiratory related. She was informed this week that as of May 1st, her current nursing home will no longer provide 24/7 respiratory therapy. Everyone in the family agrees that this means finding a new nursing ( Read more... )

Mom is back in the nursing home after her week-long hospital visit. Doctors still aren't quite sure what was causing the mucus plugs because it doesn't seem that the pneumonia is back. She called me this morning and was well enough to get up to her usual guilt trips ("Everyone asked me if I had grandkids and I said 'No, I have grandcats ( Read more... )

Ok, so I am going to try and get back to writing here more regularly. There's been several reasons I've been away from here for awhile.

First and foremost, my home computer died for good about three weeks ago. This has been resolved by me finally purchasing the laptop I've been talking about for months. I ended up going with a Dell Inspirion E1505. ( Read more... )

Annnd she's back. Life's been keeping me busy the past few days so I haven't had the time to blog. Here's a run down ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I start my new position and I can't wait! I'm really looking forward to not being chained to the phone as much; not just because taking calls 8 hours a day can be draining but also for the fact that I'll be able to delve into problems deeper and feel like I'm actually assisting people. I'm also looking forward to having the time at work to ( Read more... )

My mom is still in the ICU at Akron City but according to the nurses she is doing better and they are slowly weaning her off the ventilator. They just told me that she was off the vent for about 1.5 hours today and that each day they are trying for slightly longer ( Read more... )

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I got a call from my mom this morning letting me know that my and yrosalita's joint birthday present got out to her on time. Her birthday is tomorrow and we sent her a portable DVD player that is just the right size for her in the nursing home. She really, really likes it and couldn't stop thanking me for it ( Read more... )