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A prayer please............

Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. Through all this and what happened with the Hammacks it puts ones actions and life into perspective.

All I want to do is call my mom and tell her how much I love her. I just hope she can answer the phone on monday. Monday just ain't coming soon enough for me.

Whew, Damn it's hard to write through tears.
 
Sorry, I can't get the dumb big font to work.....but it was a REALLY big hug. :)
 
4:14 pm back in Pa and I have heard nothing. No one answering phones and the nurses station won't tell me anything until the Dr's tell them something..................

This is where I start to panic right? I hate this f-in waiting.
 
Yep, they're always like that....I don't think it's panic time, sometimes you just have to wait til the docs get around to telling them what they need to know as well. They don't want to give any wrong info, good, bad, or otherwise. Hang in there....
 
Wendy, I wish I knew.

No one tells me anything of importance when I call. I called about 20 min ago and got the nurses station. They told me she was "comfortable". I asked what that meant and she said " Honey, the status has not changed. The Doctor will be in later today to see her. Until then there is no reason to keep calling." ( I usually only call 2 times a day ) At that point I asked her name and what her Nursing supervisors name was. Maybe I can convey to the "super" why family members call the hospital. Then he can let all the others little nurses know.

My mother is a M.S.P.R.N. and until last May was D.O.N of a 650 bed nursing home in Lititz, Pa. I know for a fact she has sent girls home for having an attitude like the nurse I talked to today had. I have seen my mother get out of bed at 3 in the morning to go hold the hand of one of her residents while they were dying. Hell, 2 Christmas's ago she brought a 78 yr old woman home with her to have dinner with us.

I just know my mom would die to see what kind of care she is getting from the nurses. Maybe I am jumping to conclusions but I am just going on phone calls and what I saw first hand last May- August. You see a lot when you are at a hospital for 100+ days just sitting, watching, and waiting.

Sorry to rant, it just pisses me off the see and talk to health care workers who know longer mean the meaning of "patient focus".
 
Mike, sometimes you have to rant to get out the frustration of the situation!

I don't like ill mooded nurses myself, and have more than once been ticked off by medical staff and voiced my concerns to the supers above them.

Maybe you will be able to get better information later when the DR comes in, your family is in our thoughts!
 
Mike,
My apologies for not extending my concern earlier. To be completely honest, it scares the living crap out of me. I lost my Dad to an unforseen heart attack three years ago. He was only 49. The thought of something happening to my mom as well is just unfathomable.
I really do hope and pray that your mom recovers well. She is obviously a fighter. I can't even imagine how you're feeling right now, and I'm sure the rude nurses aren't helping. In my opinion, nurses should be understanding and compassionate, and apparently the ones you've spoken with are not.
Paul
 
My mom woke from her coma today a little after 5 pm. I could not talk to her because she is still intibated(sp?) but she wrote a note to tell everyone she is feeling great.

They will try to extibate(sp?) her tomorrow morning at 10 am to see if she can breathe on her own.

Thank you everyone for the prayers and good thoughts!!!! :)

The nurse I spoke with this afternoons name was Nancy. The name of my grandmother. I took this as a great sign. She was sweet as could be and you could tell that she genuinely cared for her patients.

I can finally breathe again and stop carrying this damn phone around with me 24/7 lol
 
That is great news!!

I am so happy she's awake now! Your Mom sounds like a terrific person, here she wakes up and her first thought is to let everyone else know she's okay! What a Great Lady...and you can tell her I said that! :)

P.S. You know you're still going to carry that silly phone! :raspberry
 
Mike, I am only posting this here to try to defer any more debates on the Hammack Fund and I really don't think you want any of those debates attached to your moms situation, but I take it from this post:

Rebel Dragons said:
We drove to Texas today to visit some family and when I got home, oh about 2 hours ago I had a message on the machine telling me to start shopping for a plane ticket back home.
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that your mom has taken a turn for the worse. I am so so sorry, how is she doing, what happened?
 
All they are telling me is that blood clot is in her lungs and it doesn't look good. They are saying 48 hours. My heart is telling me not to worry because my mom is a fighter.

I am just sitting here kinda numb and waiting for my brother to call me back with more info.

She made it past 89 days on life support last year I know she can get past this too.
 
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