Bad news ... Mom is back in the hospital, and the outlook is bleak. My parents went to the ER at maybe 1am with my mother complaining of severe pain that even morphine wouldn't relieve. Turns out her esophagus has perforated (she has esophageal cancer) and she also has a pulmonary embolism.
So my father called me around 9am (and let me tell you, that is NOT the way you want to be awakened on a Sunday morning - or any morning!). My husband and I threw together an overnight bag and went over to the hospital. She's in the ICU, unconscious and intubated. The vital signs display showed that she was tachycardic with a blood pressure of 60 systolic. (!) (Turns out the BP cuff hadn't been placed properly and her BP was actually more like 120/60.)
I hope she heard me when I said, "I love you, Mom."
I'm so sorry. I'm confident she heard you. All of the hospice information says that hearing is the last thing to go and people usually hear you up until the end. Keep talking to her. *hugs*
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Slight correction to my earlier post: My mother actually DID have a BP of 60 systolic. The cuff was not misplaced. She was given some meds for her BP, which returned to an acceptable level. Her heart rate did slow a bit but she was still tachycardic when we left.
I'm staying with my dad tonight. He's a wreck. He's one of those stiff-upper-lip types. I've seen him cry exactly three times in my entire lifetime - once when I went away to college, once when his father died, and once today.
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and her BP was actually more like 120/60.)
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