yesterday i spent in the hospital with my mom. she had to have an angioplasty in her leg. the best case is that they would have done both legs, but i think the doctor ran out of time. they couldn’t get her blood pressure down low enough to start the procedure. she said she read the paper they gave her, but she must have forgotten. next time, i will make sure we do it right. i hope there is a next time, because the leg they did isn’t hurting like it normally does right now.
we got really afraid when she was having all the tests done leading up to this procedure because they told us that she was 80% occluded on one side and 100% on the other side.
modern medicine is a wonderful thing. when the doctor first talked to us about this procedure, this is something that wasn’t even done as little as two years ago. they used to think that the extremeties were too risky to do angioplasty on, so my mother would have been told to live in pain. they went in at her hip, so technically, it wasn’t even a surgical procedure, although they did it in the OR. she was awake the whole time, they just gave her some medicine to put her leg asleep.
my sister was there too. it was nice to have her company, although i could have done without it. i love my sister, but she’s a tad narcisistic.
the cold is better. last night was the first night that i didn’t take any cold medicine to sleep. i didn’t want to sleep really hard because i wanted to be able to wake quickly if my mom needed me. i slept with her last night, she has a huge bed. the reason is because although i was sure she would be fine, there was a chance the plug they put in her femoral artery could come loose. if that happened, she could bleed to death in under five minutes. she wouldn’t hardly have time to realize what was happening and call for anyone before it would be over. of course, everything was fine, but it made me feel better to be there.
today, i am going to lunch with a bunch of people who are local and also on tribe. it should be very interesting, for sure.
have a great day, everyone!
peace.
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