My brother is having brain surgery. With his track record with surgeries there is no telling how long I"ll be gone. My bators are not easy to keep stable and being gone could kill everything in them. The people that take care of my birds when I"m gone I'd rather wasn't in the house. Sad to say but true. I'll have to move all the babies outside to the garage in the grow pen and give them a heat lamp and hope for the best. If it's real cold I could loose younger chicks and I don't want to risk it. I'd hate to bring something into the world to just let it die. So I'd rather wait till I get back to start back up. Right now I'll have chicks a month old when I leave. They will have a better chance than 2 week old babies.
My brother has had many surgeries over the past few years. Mostly because of his heart. His last one was Dec 2nd and it was a complete hip replacement. He had complications as he always does and thats how they found the aneurysm in his brain. It's suppose to be an easy surgery but so was his hip. I always think positive on things like this but it's hard to when it never goes as expected. He had a triple bypass about 4 years ago and it was suppose to be a 4 day hospital stay. He was in a coma for 12 days. He's had 2 heart surgeries since then as well as constant pain from numerous places. After the bypass he has to completely learn everything over again. He couldn't talk or walk. He had an infection in his tongue right after surgery that was growing very fast. He was put in a coma so they could intibate him while the infection was being fought because his tongue was swelling so fast they was afraid it would cut off his breathing. He developed hallucinations when they woke him up as well as when he was in the coma. He has to be watched 24/7. When he had the hip surgery he started hallucinating again. His speech was slurred and they thought he had a stroke. That's when they found the aneurysm. It's on the outside of his brain on the side of his head. It's suppose to be easy to take care of but nothing is easy with him. As far as siblings and parents he is all I have left. The rest of my family is gone. I have a daughter and 3 grandsons as well as my brothers 3 kids that are all grown. He has a daughter that is disabled and has to be cared for, for the rest of her life which is wonderful wife does. Normally they both do but he has been so sick the past several years his wife takes care of them both as well as everything else involved with the running of a household.
I have a very high respect for my sister-n-law. She has problems of her own but she puts her issues to the back burner and only goes to the doc when she needs help with relief from her problems. As most women do. If I were a well off person I would do everything I could for them. I know my brother isn't gonna live a long time and I wish I was in the position to be able to help her out when the time comes.
