short rant: aging parents
My mom just got out of the hospital Friday. Pneumonia helped along by the smoke in the air from the fire in Arizona. Then they gave her steroids which sent her blood sugar skyrocketing.
She's home, but still very weak and tired.
It was an exhausting week, shutting my dad and myself to the hospital to see her, trying to get answers from nurses, pulmonary techs, whoever about what was going on with her. My dad did not handle it well - grumpy because he has to rely on other people; angry because I couldn't always do everything he wanted; sad because he was worried about my mom; frustrated because he didn't know what was going on. He spent 1 day after she got home doting over her. Day two was anger or frustration or something that she didn't want to "do" anything; that she was sleeping a lot.
ugh.
She's home, but still very weak and tired.
It was an exhausting week, shutting my dad and myself to the hospital to see her, trying to get answers from nurses, pulmonary techs, whoever about what was going on with her. My dad did not handle it well - grumpy because he has to rely on other people; angry because I couldn't always do everything he wanted; sad because he was worried about my mom; frustrated because he didn't know what was going on. He spent 1 day after she got home doting over her. Day two was anger or frustration or something that she didn't want to "do" anything; that she was sleeping a lot.
ugh.