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Could use a prayer if you have an extra. - UPDATE
Dads3040
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My Mom called me yesterday and asked if I could give her a ride Friday. She said a friend could drive her, but thought she would check with me.
I wasn't exactly thrilled, as the Portland Roadster Show opens Friday, I will be onsite for 12-14 hours tomorrow helping my friend who is the official photographer shoot pictures of 400+ cars, and Friday and Saturday I am usually there because my car club is the biggest in the organization that puts the thing on and we have a lot of people there who need hand holding and general supervision. I am also supposed to help judge the High School Challenge cars, as well as serve as the liaison to the ISCA judging team.
So this is not exactly convenient, seriously last minute for an obsessive control freak such as myself, but it is my Mom and maybe I can sneak out for an hour or two, so I nicely asked 'Where do you need to go?'
"Oh, just to the hospital so they can remove my gall bladder."
Full. SCREECHING. STOP. What?!?
It turns out she has been having 'issues', the doctor says he wants to remove it before it gets any worse, and before Mom gets any older. Mom hasn't mentioned it because she....wait for it....didn't want to worry anyone.
So the New Revised Plan is that I will help shoot the pictures tomorrow, and then I cleared my schedule for Friday and Saturday. They want to keep her overnight for observation because she is 78 and she had Atrial Fibrillation problems in February 2014.
The day my Dad moved out when he and Mom split up 40 years ago, he told me 'your job now is to take care of your Mom and your sisters'. I heard Dad's voice in my head yesterday. I will take care of it, Dad. It is what I do.
So if you guys have a prayer for my Mom, and maybe another for my sanity, I would surely appreciate it.
Mom is home. The surgery went very well, and she woke up asking when she could go home. The doctor had wanted to keep her overnight, but said she got through the surgery so well that he was willing to see how she did in Recovery. After 3-4 hours, he decided she would do as well resting at home as at the hospital, so we took her home. My wife stayed with her last night, and Gloria just called and said Mom is watching TV and having a bite to eat.
Thanks for all the prayers and good thoughts. You are all a great bunch of people.
I wasn't exactly thrilled, as the Portland Roadster Show opens Friday, I will be onsite for 12-14 hours tomorrow helping my friend who is the official photographer shoot pictures of 400+ cars, and Friday and Saturday I am usually there because my car club is the biggest in the organization that puts the thing on and we have a lot of people there who need hand holding and general supervision. I am also supposed to help judge the High School Challenge cars, as well as serve as the liaison to the ISCA judging team.
So this is not exactly convenient, seriously last minute for an obsessive control freak such as myself, but it is my Mom and maybe I can sneak out for an hour or two, so I nicely asked 'Where do you need to go?'
"Oh, just to the hospital so they can remove my gall bladder."
Full. SCREECHING. STOP. What?!?
It turns out she has been having 'issues', the doctor says he wants to remove it before it gets any worse, and before Mom gets any older. Mom hasn't mentioned it because she....wait for it....didn't want to worry anyone.
So the New Revised Plan is that I will help shoot the pictures tomorrow, and then I cleared my schedule for Friday and Saturday. They want to keep her overnight for observation because she is 78 and she had Atrial Fibrillation problems in February 2014.
The day my Dad moved out when he and Mom split up 40 years ago, he told me 'your job now is to take care of your Mom and your sisters'. I heard Dad's voice in my head yesterday. I will take care of it, Dad. It is what I do.
So if you guys have a prayer for my Mom, and maybe another for my sanity, I would surely appreciate it.
Mom is home. The surgery went very well, and she woke up asking when she could go home. The doctor had wanted to keep her overnight, but said she got through the surgery so well that he was willing to see how she did in Recovery. After 3-4 hours, he decided she would do as well resting at home as at the hospital, so we took her home. My wife stayed with her last night, and Gloria just called and said Mom is watching TV and having a bite to eat.
Thanks for all the prayers and good thoughts. You are all a great bunch of people.
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sure sounds like your mom is from the school of keeping it to yourself , when it comes to complaining and pain , my parents and in-laws were the same , had to drag any one of them to the doctor or hospital
W.D.
A good friend's wife just had her gall bladder out and she's doing just fine, so try not to worry too much.
Keep us posted.
Dan
She called once, when I was stationed overseas, and casually mentioned that she was out of the hospital and feeling much better.
....that screeching halt you spoke of.....
Best wishes for a complete recovery.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I seriously do not do well with stuff I cannot control, and I am almost positive they won't let me supervise the surgery. Which means tomorrow I will have to hand off my Mom to the care of the surgeons, and the Good Lord.
It does help knowing that all of you have asked Him to keep an eye on Mom.
I am grateful to all of you. More than you can know.
Watch her for a few days, some people hallucinate as the anesthesia weans out of their body's.