A Miracle
Hello fellow bloggers. I know I have been sending a lot of you emails during the last week, but I do not have addresses for everyone, so I will post some repeat events for some of you as I sit here in the waiting room.
Last Thursday mom was placed in the Adult Critical Care at Methodist where the NG tube was reinserted and she was placed on a respirator. Her abdomen was distended and hard. Friday morning she was rushed into surgery again to find out what was going on. During the surgery they found that where the intestine had been connected had pulled apart spilling stool into her abdomen. Her blood volume was extremely low and they lost her blood pressure, and she went into cardiac arrest. CPR was performed for 10-15 mins, but was revived. She was then rushed back to the ACC where they worked for a good hour to stabilize her. For the next few days she was listed as "hour to hour."
As time has passed, she has fought sepsis and won. She has battled infection after infection and won. She has had 3 blood transfusions, including platelets. She has been in an induced coma for over a week. Sometimes when the sedation wears thin, she will move and halfway open her eyes. The surgery was not completed because of the arrest and she has 2 ostomys in her belly. We were promised by the surgeon that this was temporary. And by God he better live up to that promise. We have had a lot of issues with the lack of communication from the surgeon...mainly because he went on vacation and nobody knew. Leaving us searching for answers to numerous questions.
A week after the disastrous surgery she remains stable and ready for surgery...only if we had a surgeon. She is on 30% oxygen and mostly breathing on her own. Considering she was in respiratory distress a week ago, this is wonderful. We continue to wait for answers while she lays in her room. Her system is depleted of all nutrients which is why her GI tract needs to be restarted. This waiting seems to make things worse. We know there are reservations about operating on her again given the last disaster, but she is better now than she was 8 days ago. We don't understand. Complete helplessness. If she wakes up with those ostomys, she will die. She made that perfectly clear over 2 weeks ago, when all this started. I know her well enough to know that is true. But I don't make 200K a year to drop my patients to take a relaxing vacation. You know, when you treat a patient, you also treat the family. I guess this concept is hard to understand. Guess they need to watch "Patch." Us medical assistants have been warned about surgeons. I see why. A true shame.
Last Thursday mom was placed in the Adult Critical Care at Methodist where the NG tube was reinserted and she was placed on a respirator. Her abdomen was distended and hard. Friday morning she was rushed into surgery again to find out what was going on. During the surgery they found that where the intestine had been connected had pulled apart spilling stool into her abdomen. Her blood volume was extremely low and they lost her blood pressure, and she went into cardiac arrest. CPR was performed for 10-15 mins, but was revived. She was then rushed back to the ACC where they worked for a good hour to stabilize her. For the next few days she was listed as "hour to hour."
As time has passed, she has fought sepsis and won. She has battled infection after infection and won. She has had 3 blood transfusions, including platelets. She has been in an induced coma for over a week. Sometimes when the sedation wears thin, she will move and halfway open her eyes. The surgery was not completed because of the arrest and she has 2 ostomys in her belly. We were promised by the surgeon that this was temporary. And by God he better live up to that promise. We have had a lot of issues with the lack of communication from the surgeon...mainly because he went on vacation and nobody knew. Leaving us searching for answers to numerous questions.
A week after the disastrous surgery she remains stable and ready for surgery...only if we had a surgeon. She is on 30% oxygen and mostly breathing on her own. Considering she was in respiratory distress a week ago, this is wonderful. We continue to wait for answers while she lays in her room. Her system is depleted of all nutrients which is why her GI tract needs to be restarted. This waiting seems to make things worse. We know there are reservations about operating on her again given the last disaster, but she is better now than she was 8 days ago. We don't understand. Complete helplessness. If she wakes up with those ostomys, she will die. She made that perfectly clear over 2 weeks ago, when all this started. I know her well enough to know that is true. But I don't make 200K a year to drop my patients to take a relaxing vacation. You know, when you treat a patient, you also treat the family. I guess this concept is hard to understand. Guess they need to watch "Patch." Us medical assistants have been warned about surgeons. I see why. A true shame.
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