This thread is dedicated to my Mother and her recovery.
On Monday the 4th June 2007, while holidaying in the UK with my Father, my Mother was struck by a van while crossing the road.
Mum spent 88 days in various UK hospitals before finally being brought home back to Australia on the 30th August 2007.
She is currently in The John Whittle Nursing Facility with brain damage
I have set up this thread to keep you all updated on her condition and her improvements and hopefully one day, Mum will be able to read it.
On Monday the 4th June 2007, while holidaying in the UK with my Father, my Mother was struck by a van while crossing the road.
Mum spent 88 days in various UK hospitals before finally being brought home back to Australia on the 30th August 2007.
She is currently in The John Whittle Nursing Facility with brain damage
I have set up this thread to keep you all updated on her condition and her improvements and hopefully one day, Mum will be able to read it.
Mum is on oxygen. If they remove it, she cant breathe.
Her blood pressure is also very high.
Doctor has told Dad the usual, shes old, her body may not recover, expect the worst etc.
I have spent the whole morning putting together a photo dvd. I have had the photos ready for months now but haveent done anything with them.
But i wanted to have a photo dvd playing at her funeral and figure i better make it now, just in case.
I gotta say, im really really proud of what ive made. Have put the slideshow together with songs playing in the background.
I chose
The Day You went Away- Wendy Matthews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfqusp7s5o0
Somewhere over the Rainbow- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k
So my sister just rang and tell me Mum is looking better.
Last night she was hardly breathing and coughing up foam. By the time she got to the hospital she was white and close to death.
She gets put on antibiotics and dad is told she may not make it through the night.
Today she is still on oxygen, her colour is back and she is smiling.
I cant handle this rollercoaster anymore.
Years ago, good signs sent us soaring that she would recover and then we would plummet down when she didnt.
Now, i feel my hopes rise when i get calls saying she is bad.
I start making a dvd for her funeral.
I feel a sense of relief.
And then, a phone call saying she looks better sinks me down and gives me a migraine
And then tonight im gonna get a call from dad and hes gonna be so happy and say how she has fought again to stay with us and that she must want to stay alive and i have to fake my joy.
Its harder for my sister. She has to sit in the hospital room with him. Him being happy that Mum is going to recover back to the state of being bed ridden, unable to move or communicate, wearing a nappy. She has to fake to his face that she is happy about that.
Amy, it really is sad that she continues on, the way your mum is, she is only just existing, must be terribly hard for you and your sister.
I am keeping you all in my thoughts.......
Yes, dad wanted her put on the antibiotics but when he was asked about resusitation, he said not to do it.
After my sister sat with Mum and dad all afternoon and she sees how happy he is just to sit with her holding her hand, she thinks, if the time came and he was asked if he wanted her resusitated...he would say yes.
This will be Mums 4th time fighting pneumonia. The last time they said her lungs were so scarred, she would not be able to cope with it another time. But, here we are again.
I cant deal with this again. My heart hurts. My brain hurts. I just want to crawl into bed and sleep until its all over
