Feb. 23rd, 2019 02:16 pm

My mom

countessmry: Stiles in hospital bed (StilesSick)
Thank you so much to everyone who was so supportive last night when I was losing my mind. I was mentally frozen and also incapable of staying in one place for more than 5 minutes.

Mom is in the ER because of an infection, they think bronchitis, which developed after hip replacement surgery. So she’s coughing like crazy, in 10/10 pain every time she has to pee, and she’s having trouble breathing because of congestive heart failure. Oddly. This made me feel better. This is sadly the norm for my mom. So we are back into familiar territory. I’m hopeful that she will heal quickly but it’s not generally the case. She’s immunosuppressed as she had a kidney transplant after open heart surgery trashed her kidneys.

So here we are. It’s hard to feel a sense of emergency all of the time but none of the time, ya know? She feels like Job from the Bible who just gets plagues and pestilence over and over again but he still believes. My mom’s like that. She still finds joy. I find that amazing.
Feb. 17th, 2019 12:30 pm

My mom

countessmry: Stiles in hospital bed (StilesSick)
This week my mom finally got the hip replacement surgery that she's been needing for the last several years. Her bone was degenerating and it was to the point where it was actually tearing itself when she puts weight on it or sits or breathes or exists.

The surgery was a really scary one. They were saying she only had a 50% chance of surviving the surgery but she was in so much pain that she had to give it a shot. They canceled the surgery no less than 10 times because of other infections or illnesses. (She is already immunocompromised so they weren't willing to add issues to the surgery when her risk was already so high. Frustrating as hell but we understood it.)

She was in tremendous pain every day and I'm so glad that there's maybe some light at the end of the tunnel here. She's an incredible lovely human and she's one of my best and closest friends. Nothing is real until I talk to my mom or my sister about it.

So she's going to be in the hospital for probably a while because the surgery was complicated and she's got so many health issues to contend with at the same time. So thanks to everybody on twitter and facebook for being there, sending prayers, and sending love. It was nice to be surrounded by people just caring about my mom.

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