Nov 30, 2007 18:53
So my last post was full of win, but this post is going to be full of fail. Thursday was hideous.
My mother had a fall on Thursday morning and hit her head. So the ambulance took her to the local hospital and she had a CT scan. They found that she had significant blood clots and bleeding around her brain. So they transfered her to one of the Brisbane hospitals. There she had a 3 hours of neurosurgery that evening. Afterwards, she still was bleeding around her brain so this morning they did another three hours of work trying to stop the bleeding again. They still don't know if it'll stop and she has drains in (icky) to try and prevent the clots happening again. Now she can't talk very well and only managed to get out "oh God, I'm sorry" over about an hour. She can't really move her right side either. She has M.S so that's probably not helping much.
So now we don't know how long it's going to take her to recover, nor if she will recover 100%. On Thursday my grandparents, my brother and I were sitting around the hospital from about 3 in the afternoon until midnight. My brother, my uncle and I went back today. I kind of almost fainted as I was considerably dehydrated.
I'd really like to not complain, but honestly, how much garbage does my family have to go through? My father died from cancer, my grandma had breast cancer, my grandad has had like four heartattacks, my mother has M.S and now this.
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