2 Hospital Run In Just About As Many Days....

So Monday, after work, I stop by the hospital to take mom home.  They said she had a TIA.

We get home about 6:30pm, I look for something to make for dinner, whip it up, we eat... and mom ate the entire thing!... and clean up.  By this time it's the last round of #WheelofForture and we park ourselves on the sofa to watch.

As normal, mom nods off, and on, and off, and on... snoring a little as she goes.

The phone rings, it's the 'visiting nurse' calling to make an appointment to visit on Tuesday and see mom.  After consulting with the hubby if noon is a good time to stop by, I set the appointment and hang up the phone.

Then I tell mom, come on lady Jane, time to head upstairs to bed.... mom is reaching out, searching for something and I ask what's she's doing?  Trying to move that out of the way... What?... that stuff... Mom, there's nothing there... 

Come on... let's get you upstairs and ready for bed... I help he slowly get up... she takes a few steps to the other end of the sofa and proclaims, I don't feel well, I have to sit....

She sits... and goes into one of those episodes where she's totally unresponsive, her eyes are wide open, pupils big and stationary and her chest doesn't rise for about 6 seconds... I start to slap her cheeks to see if I can get her to respond,,, no luck, so I dial that favorite # again... 9-1-1!

Back we go to the local hospital... more of same testing that was done on Saturday and Sunday at the other place and then some!

Picked her up last night around 8pm and brought her home.  Their diagnosis... dizzyness.... yeah, she's dizzy alright... 

We did get a doctor to agree to write the state to take away her license for 6 months, until we track her progress and see if she improves, but she should NOT be driving.  Oh this will go over well with her... NOT!  Going to let my  sister handle this conversation, perhaps best to do with entire family present... 

Anyone ever have to deal with this???  #HowDidYouHandleThis?  #MomCantDrive #TakeAwayHerDriversLicense

She slept well, and was awake when I left for work today... 

I have sunshine hours today, so I will be home around noon... and will sift through all her NEW discharge papers and set up all the various doctor appointments...

#CaringForMom  #ElderlyCare  #AgingParent  #SupportForAgingParents  #TIA #Stroke

Mini stoke

And all I wanted to do was shop, but mom had another idea.

As we walked into Nordstoms, mom began to spiral down, not making sense and slurring words.  It was over in a matter of minutes but my daughter, the nurse, was with us and said she's having a stroke, we need to call 911 and get her to a hospital.

And we did, and she was and she is...

CT Scan inconclusive, MRI today and they believe she had a mini stroke, however, she's dehydrated and kidneys not operating to capacity.

Keeping her another night, don't want to release until they speak with our family doctor because hospital we transported her to hasn't any records on her for last 6 years...

An so it goes...