As Susan, says below, it never rains but it pours:
Hi all,
It never rains but it pours. Things remain pretty
much the same with my mom except that we got her moved
to our hospital (Rush North Shore for those who know
the area) so now she's with our doctors which she had
indicated with squeezes and raised legs that she
wanted. We haven't done the trache yet because
apparently thanks to insurance rules (and we have good
Blue Cross PPO expensive insurance that permits most
stuff) once you have a trache you get kicked out of
hospital and sent to a nursing home/long-term vent
unit. So we're iffy about that since we don't know
if that's the best for mom right now when she still
has infections. And we've been trying to get her to
our hospital and our doctors for ages but couldn't go
from one hospital to another after a trache.
And now we have a new problem. My dad has been
complaining of shoulder, back, and arm pains for a
while...worse since mom got sick. He kept saying it
was arthritis pain and gobbling arthritis meds. He
had an EKG in April that was okay and an okay stress
stress test in January, but I did make him take some
Nitro last week because I was worried that it could be
heart. Thank God I dragged him to the cardiologist
today because he has three occluded arterties and
needs a triple-bypass, possibly a quad. I've always
suspected he'd have to have this one day because the
Werner men all seem to have heart trouble but his
timing is lousy. So at least now they're in the same
hospital. I know this is a fairly common operation
(Dr. Meg says it's more common than appendectomies
today), but I'll be glad when it's safely over and
he's recovering nicely. He's in good health otherwise
so there shouldn't be any problems.
But I need more prayers please!
Thanks!
Susan
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