I'm As Serious As A Heart Attack
My mom has been on new medicine for over a week now. She went to to the doctor for a check up and her blood sugar was high, meaning she needs to get under control now before it turns into something. So we've been adjusting what we eat and such. Her sugar has been getting better.
Yesterday at work from the minute we got there David noticed that my mom just did not look right. And when he asked me about it, I went over too her and noticed the same thing. Her sugar had been really good that morning too. So I kept an eye on her as best I could from across the kitchen.
Well around 7:30 she comes in and tells me to clean her glasses. Why people always want me to clean their glasses, I have no idea, but I do. As I was cleaning her glasses my mom just left. I figured she had to go to the bathroom. So I set her glasses to the side and went on with working. Well Sherry comes in and gets a cool rag and says "I think you need to come check on your mom"
Well I go to the back and she looks as pale as a ghost and she looks like shit. One of the waitresses is an EMT so she took her blood pressure. It was a little high, but one her cuff didn't fit my mom's arm all that great and she also said if your sugar drops low it'll cause your blood pressure to go high. They gave my mom some peaches and she went into the office and sat. I kept going in to check on her in between checking the back and stuff.
Well she was feeling much better so she came back into the kitchen. Next thing I knew she was gone. I figured she was cleaning the cooler because a few minutes before I had just been in to move some stuff for her that she can't lift. I was making oysters (yuck) and Carol comes and gets me. She says to David, "You finish this, I want Kimberly to clock out."
So Carol pulls me to the side and says I want you to make sure you take your mom to get checked out at the hospital. I don't think it's anything, but I want to be safe. My mom promised Carol she would go to the hospital as we left. The reason Carol came to get me though was because my mom had gotten sick.
As we were driving home, my mom didn't turn for the hospital which really pissed me off, because I knew she needed to go. She said she wanted to go home and see what my dad said. Well if something was wrong, time is important. So I yelled at her and I cried and she didn't listen to me.
We got home and explained things to my dad. He said she looked fine and it sounded heat related. I told him I thought mom should go anyways, just to be safe, but he said no, it was heat. Well I sat with my mom and made her half a sandwich and made her eat bananna before she took her medicine. Everything seemed fine.
I was in my room and my dad comes in around midnight and says "I'm taking your mom to Northeast, it happened again and I'm going to Northeat because that's where the send people when they have problems."
So I get up, and my mom is standing in the living room looking like shit. She looked like she was about to fall over. I got her a bag in case she threw up again. I told my dad to keep me post. When I was putting the bags back in the cabinet, I knocked over the cup with celery and water in it, spilling it all over me and the floor. So I took my pants off and put them in the dryer and got towels to clean everything else up.
My dad called around 2 to say they had gotten there and that everything was fine. They weren't rushing or anything. But they were doing an EKG, which I knew was for the heart. I slept off and on all night, waiting for my dad to call again, my mom's dog was sleeping with me and she's a pain in the ass. The cat was in here, another added pain.
Well I hear the door open and I get all freaked out, but then I hear my dad's voice. But he didn't even call to tell me he was coming home, which freaked me out. It was just me and my sister here.
The man needs to take a nap, because he keeeps yelling at me for nothing. I've done nothing and he keeps yelling. He;s stressed and worried and tired, but me answering the phone is not going to hinder his sleeping. he just freaks the fuck out. But I'm being nice and I haven't snapped back.
My mom called and told me they were treating her for a heart attack and she had responded to that medicine. She has to stay until at least Monday and they are going to make sure there are no other blockages. She also asked me to call our boss and tell him what was going on. My dad starts flipping out about my mom calling and talking to me before him and yells at me because he can't hear her on the landdline. Then he's yelling at my mom because she didn't pay all the bills yesterday, but she has to wait for him to move the money around so she can and not bounce anything.
So like my mom asked, I called our boss and let him know what was going on. Well my mom had asked my dad to do that as well, she he came to ask me for the number and I told him it was taken care of and he starts yelling at me for that and all I said was "But mom asked me too."
My mom just went for a check up. She's had a stess test in the last year. I just don't understand why things keep happening to her. Am I meant to lose my mom before I turn 25? I don't want too. She's one of like my best friends and I dunno what I would do without her. But, things just keep happening with her health no matter how much she tries to change and be good and go to the doctors like she's supposed too. It has to stop.
And the one person I thought would be here for me, hasn't even called me back.
Yesterday at work from the minute we got there David noticed that my mom just did not look right. And when he asked me about it, I went over too her and noticed the same thing. Her sugar had been really good that morning too. So I kept an eye on her as best I could from across the kitchen.
Well around 7:30 she comes in and tells me to clean her glasses. Why people always want me to clean their glasses, I have no idea, but I do. As I was cleaning her glasses my mom just left. I figured she had to go to the bathroom. So I set her glasses to the side and went on with working. Well Sherry comes in and gets a cool rag and says "I think you need to come check on your mom"
Well I go to the back and she looks as pale as a ghost and she looks like shit. One of the waitresses is an EMT so she took her blood pressure. It was a little high, but one her cuff didn't fit my mom's arm all that great and she also said if your sugar drops low it'll cause your blood pressure to go high. They gave my mom some peaches and she went into the office and sat. I kept going in to check on her in between checking the back and stuff.
Well she was feeling much better so she came back into the kitchen. Next thing I knew she was gone. I figured she was cleaning the cooler because a few minutes before I had just been in to move some stuff for her that she can't lift. I was making oysters (yuck) and Carol comes and gets me. She says to David, "You finish this, I want Kimberly to clock out."
So Carol pulls me to the side and says I want you to make sure you take your mom to get checked out at the hospital. I don't think it's anything, but I want to be safe. My mom promised Carol she would go to the hospital as we left. The reason Carol came to get me though was because my mom had gotten sick.
As we were driving home, my mom didn't turn for the hospital which really pissed me off, because I knew she needed to go. She said she wanted to go home and see what my dad said. Well if something was wrong, time is important. So I yelled at her and I cried and she didn't listen to me.
We got home and explained things to my dad. He said she looked fine and it sounded heat related. I told him I thought mom should go anyways, just to be safe, but he said no, it was heat. Well I sat with my mom and made her half a sandwich and made her eat bananna before she took her medicine. Everything seemed fine.
I was in my room and my dad comes in around midnight and says "I'm taking your mom to Northeast, it happened again and I'm going to Northeat because that's where the send people when they have problems."
So I get up, and my mom is standing in the living room looking like shit. She looked like she was about to fall over. I got her a bag in case she threw up again. I told my dad to keep me post. When I was putting the bags back in the cabinet, I knocked over the cup with celery and water in it, spilling it all over me and the floor. So I took my pants off and put them in the dryer and got towels to clean everything else up.
My dad called around 2 to say they had gotten there and that everything was fine. They weren't rushing or anything. But they were doing an EKG, which I knew was for the heart. I slept off and on all night, waiting for my dad to call again, my mom's dog was sleeping with me and she's a pain in the ass. The cat was in here, another added pain.
Well I hear the door open and I get all freaked out, but then I hear my dad's voice. But he didn't even call to tell me he was coming home, which freaked me out. It was just me and my sister here.
The man needs to take a nap, because he keeeps yelling at me for nothing. I've done nothing and he keeps yelling. He;s stressed and worried and tired, but me answering the phone is not going to hinder his sleeping. he just freaks the fuck out. But I'm being nice and I haven't snapped back.
My mom called and told me they were treating her for a heart attack and she had responded to that medicine. She has to stay until at least Monday and they are going to make sure there are no other blockages. She also asked me to call our boss and tell him what was going on. My dad starts flipping out about my mom calling and talking to me before him and yells at me because he can't hear her on the landdline. Then he's yelling at my mom because she didn't pay all the bills yesterday, but she has to wait for him to move the money around so she can and not bounce anything.
So like my mom asked, I called our boss and let him know what was going on. Well my mom had asked my dad to do that as well, she he came to ask me for the number and I told him it was taken care of and he starts yelling at me for that and all I said was "But mom asked me too."
My mom just went for a check up. She's had a stess test in the last year. I just don't understand why things keep happening to her. Am I meant to lose my mom before I turn 25? I don't want too. She's one of like my best friends and I dunno what I would do without her. But, things just keep happening with her health no matter how much she tries to change and be good and go to the doctors like she's supposed too. It has to stop.
And the one person I thought would be here for me, hasn't even called me back.