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Last night, after The Living Circle, I checked my home phone voice mail messages to find out that my mother had been admitted to the hospital on Sunday. Her friend who had called me left the number to the hospital and it was too late to call by the time we were finished (especially with the time difference). I didn't sleep a wink last night as I worried. She has emphysema and is on oxygen and heart medications as a result. I called my mom from the train station this morning to find that the blood levels of one of her medications had gotten too high which caused her heart to go into fibrillation. Her neighbor called 911 and they got things under control. Thankfully, my brother was visiting from Arkansas and I'm so relieved that he was since nobody knew how to reach me except my mother, who had the information on her email, which she couldn't access while in the hospital! She was discharged this morning and I've talked to her several times today, and she sounds very tired and a little disoriented (when I told her I was at the train station, she wanted to know why, not remembering that I was in Chicago). She will start getting home health services tomorrow, thanks to my brother's diligence (it helps that he's a CEO of the hospital and made a point to give his card to the discharge planner). Her health has been very shaky since October so I am asking my sisters to keep her in their prayers. She is the only close family that I have in Michigan, she is my best friend and my emotional backbone. She has always been "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and I don't know what I'll do when she's gone.
Loyally,
Dee
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