Re: Prayers for My Mom Please
- From: "Gwen Love" <cglghl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:02:22 -0600
Diane, prayers already started that your mom will have a painless and
peaceful passing. Also praying for you and the rest of the family as you go
through this with her. Hope you can get to be pain free during all of this.
Gwen
"DianeW" <DiWitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I know I haven't been posting much since my hospital and for this I
> apologize but I had a bad reaction to the last IV abx they gave me and
> had horrific muscle spasms which left me with 2 compression fractures
> in the mid back area. Very painful. I didn't sleep for 4 days and then
> was given a serious muscle relaxer and slept for two weeks until the
> worst of the pain is gone. Hasn't been a fun time. I'm getting around
> better now with a corset type brace and the pain is finally
> controllable with my normal meds.
>
> But now I need your prayers for Mom's gentle passing. She's been in the
> CCU at the hospital now with Sepsis and pneumonia since last Thursday.
> It's her second hospitalization this month. Her kidneys have failed.
> She hasn't had any urine output since yesterday. Her PT/INR is
> elevating in spite of being off coumadin for 4 days now and she has a
> GI bleed. She's sleeping most of the time now only occasionally opening
> her eyes but not making eye contact with anyone in the room or
> following the sound of our voices. The infectious disease doctor says
> that less than 5% of patients survive Sepsis when the "cascade" of the
> disease process as it's called starts and is this pronounced. She is
> not expected to survive more than 5-7 days but as the family doctor
> says - she's a fighter, she's fooled us before.
>
> When I went in to see her yesterday it was obvious by the grimace on
> her face that she was in pain and having a hard time breathing with her
> pulmonary fibrosis and the pneumonia on top of that. The nurse had
> already called the doctor and was waiting for a reply. They started her
> on morphine when he called back. So she's much more comfortable. We
> were able to talk with her yesterday and she shook her head yes and no
> to our questions. And she softly said I love you back to us when we
> said it to her. She fell asleep sometime later in the evening and
> hasn't really woken up since. Of course, the nurses give her the
> morphine when she's showing signs of pain or when her bp starts to
> elevate which but never more than every 4 hours. I'm sure that's part
> of why she's sleeping so much but then the kidney's shutting down is
> also contributing to that as well.
>
> Well I could go on with the for hours but I'm going to try and get some
> sleep. My brother and husband have been with me at the hospital as well
> as my Mom's sister, my favorite aunt. My sister is arriving tomorrow
> evening as well. Starting tomorrow we are going to go in shifts so that
> someone is always there with her and if she does open her eyes and can
> make contact with us, then someone is there for her that is familiar.
> She was very fearful when we left her yesterday and that worries me.
> Anyway, thank you in advance for the ASA prayer machine. It's alway
> done wonders in the past and I know that it will now too. I just want
> her to be at peace. She's been ill for so so long. Cyberhugs, DianeW
>
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