Chickielady wrote:
Hello all, I have been sooooooooo busy...Talked to DH's Mom 2 days ago and asked her to check the meat market sales down there in NorCal to see if they were having any of their meat in the bag sales (like 6 pork sirloins whole, in the bag) and chicken, pork, beef & fish too.
Great sales fresh from the slaughter house, in heavy plastic unopened bags untouched by butchers at the grocery.
She said she'd check and call me back.
The call did not come the next day so I called her.
Got DH's dad..
See Mom had a pacemaker replaced last week.
They had to take the old one out (ouch!) I cannot imagine the pain to cut the wires out of the adhesion tissue, basically scar tissue that forms around ANY surgery, all the way from her cheat to her heart's sinus points.
Yikes!
So all went well, they sent her home, and here it was about 4 days later she is so sore she cannot walk, and getting in & out of bed or on & off the pot is out of the question without help.
So dad got her a wheel chair, and at 79 years old, he is carrying her around, up & down the few stairs, in & out of bed, etc.
So when I called her this day, which was yesterday in fact, Dad said she was so weak and in so much pain they took her to the little rural hospital's ER, where they looked her over, referred to her Big Doc in the city & dispensed pain meds & exercise (PT) instructions to keep working those sore chest & arm muscles.
By 11 PM she was so sore & in so much pain, they took her back to the hopsital & admitted her.
They then consulted the big city doc again, and he ordered tests run, finally, and found her blood badly enemic, she has a massive infection going on & the pericardium around the heart is engorged, inflammed, her kidneys were failing, other organ fuction was "slipping" and alot of the pain seemed to come from a piced nerve somewhere~~~
So, they started the IV, gave her antibiotics and no doubt prednisone....and flew her (we think) or drove her to Santa Rosa (1 hr drive) to St. Joe's Memorial Hospital where at last call at 5 AM, she was in critical condition.
So....DH got his CB hooked up, I packed his drinks, snacks, thermos & clothes, and off he went like the wind.
That's all I have heard so far...DH should arrive at his Dad's in under 12 hrs, and may have an additional 1 hour to Sanra Rosa to the hospital to see his Mom....should be about midnight when he gets there.
And been up since 4:30 with his kids calling in reports & woke us up, so we are tired now..not good looking at a 12 hr drive over the Blizzarding Siskiyous Pass.....
I'll be praying.
