Re: Re: update- update on my hubby

[Guest guest]

Dreamer,

Can you go with your husband to the doctor? That way you will know

what is going on and the doctor will know that it's ok to talk to

you. I'm sorry your mom is being uncooperative and no one is helping

her. Sending thoughts and prayers.

a

On Nov 3, 2005, at 9:48 AM, dreamer_plus wrote:

>

> thanks. I had myself a mini tantrum this morning- thinking gee

> what about ME? so busy tending to everyone and they are all sick

> enough so as to be very self absorbed, I let it get to me for a bit

> today.

> Now back on track. Husband turns out now he has blood clots..but

> he does not remember where in his body (he is still disoriented

> etc) so I hafta call and try to get his VA doc to talk with me...I

> never have any luck trying to get docs at VA hospitals to talk to

> me. And my mom who is supposed to have 24 hour care has been alone

> since I left her Monday....my siblings are not stepping up to the

> plate....and she would not let the home health aide begin

> working.....(she has fired 3 before they ever even started- they

> were supposed to be a help to me in caring for her)

>

>

>

> - In , " "

> <Matsumura_Clan@m...> wrote:

> >

> > dreamer, I'm very sorry that you are having such terrible trouble

> in your

> > family right now.

> >

> > I'm praying for your mother, your husband, your son, and you, too.

> >

> >

> >

> > Not an MD

> >

> > I'll tell you where to go!

> >

> > Mayo Clinic in Rochester

> > http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

> >

> > s Hopkins Medicine

> > http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

> >

> >

> > [ ] update- hubby in hospital

> >

> >

> > > some might remember, I have been living on my mothers sofa the

> last 5

> > > weeks, she has terminal lung cancer metatasized to her brain?

> Sadly my 4

> > > siblings who live much closer and one has their kids already

> grown and one

> > > has no kids at all yet....they have been NO help at all, in

> spite of mom

> > > having kicked me out of her home when I was 12 and her having

> put them

> > > thru college (PhDs) They do not even visit now that mom cannot

> babysit

> > > their kids or dogs anymore.....

> > > well, I had to send them this email this morning.

> > > Please keep my hubby in your prayers?

> > > Ray was admitted to the VA hospital in North Chicago (Great

> Lakes) late

> > > last nite with sepsis, erratic blood pressure, respiratory

> distress and

> > > pneumonia. This is a complication from the procedure he had

> approx 10 days

> > > ago.

> > > I have noone to watch my kids, so I will be unable to be at

> moms right

> > > now.

> > > Jimmy got hurt Saturday and a rock hit his eye, gouging and

> scraping his

> > > eyeball and bruising it and has to go see an opthamologist this

> week per

> > > ER, too.

> > >

> >

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Dreamer,

Can you go with your husband to the doctor? That way you will know

what is going on and the doctor will know that it's ok to talk to

you. I'm sorry your mom is being uncooperative and no one is helping

her. Sending thoughts and prayers.

a

On Nov 3, 2005, at 9:48 AM, dreamer_plus wrote:

>

> thanks. I had myself a mini tantrum this morning- thinking gee

> what about ME? so busy tending to everyone and they are all sick

> enough so as to be very self absorbed, I let it get to me for a bit

> today.

> Now back on track. Husband turns out now he has blood clots..but

> he does not remember where in his body (he is still disoriented

> etc) so I hafta call and try to get his VA doc to talk with me...I

> never have any luck trying to get docs at VA hospitals to talk to

> me. And my mom who is supposed to have 24 hour care has been alone

> since I left her Monday....my siblings are not stepping up to the

> plate....and she would not let the home health aide begin

> working.....(she has fired 3 before they ever even started- they

> were supposed to be a help to me in caring for her)

>

>

>

> - In , " "

> <Matsumura_Clan@m...> wrote:

> >

> > dreamer, I'm very sorry that you are having such terrible trouble

> in your

> > family right now.

> >

> > I'm praying for your mother, your husband, your son, and you, too.

> >

> >

> >

> > Not an MD

> >

> > I'll tell you where to go!

> >

> > Mayo Clinic in Rochester

> > http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

> >

> > s Hopkins Medicine

> > http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

> >

> >

> > [ ] update- hubby in hospital

> >

> >

> > > some might remember, I have been living on my mothers sofa the

> last 5

> > > weeks, she has terminal lung cancer metatasized to her brain?

> Sadly my 4

> > > siblings who live much closer and one has their kids already

> grown and one

> > > has no kids at all yet....they have been NO help at all, in

> spite of mom

> > > having kicked me out of her home when I was 12 and her having

> put them

> > > thru college (PhDs) They do not even visit now that mom cannot

> babysit

> > > their kids or dogs anymore.....

> > > well, I had to send them this email this morning.

> > > Please keep my hubby in your prayers?

> > > Ray was admitted to the VA hospital in North Chicago (Great

> Lakes) late

> > > last nite with sepsis, erratic blood pressure, respiratory

> distress and

> > > pneumonia. This is a complication from the procedure he had

> approx 10 days

> > > ago.

> > > I have noone to watch my kids, so I will be unable to be at

> moms right

> > > now.

> > > Jimmy got hurt Saturday and a rock hit his eye, gouging and

> scraping his

> > > eyeball and bruising it and has to go see an opthamologist this

> week per

> > > ER, too.

> > >

> >

>

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