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[teddog]

My mom is in the hospital until further notice.

She's had a bad infection for the past week and we've been running her back and forth from an out patient clinic so she can get a daily IV. While it has been improving, the doctors are worried that it's not clearing out fast enough and having an infection this long might cause more complications than we already have - the infection as already inflated her blood sugar, slowing down the healing process.

Right now, the hospital has put her on much stronger meds, but in turn she needs to stay in the hospital for observation. This is probably a good thing, because she was having bad reactions to the earlier meds. If there's no change in the progress tomorrow morning, they'll have to do a surgical drain.

I'm scared, but I believe that the reasons are more psychological. I don't like it when people are admitted to hospital due to personal reasons. The more I think about it, the more it's like when my cousin was sent to Sick Kids last winter and that worked out fine, mostly. This is going to make job searching tough, though.

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[vonandmoggy.livejournal.com]

Oooh I'm sorry...we're both thinking of you!!! *hug*

Moggy (and Von)

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Thanks. *hugs back*

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

On the upside, being in the hospital means she's going to have immediate high end care right there. ::nods:: No driving to the Emergency and waiting. I hope she's okay, and keep your chin up -- she's in good hands and at least it's all known now.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Janet pointed that out to me too, that it's probably better to have her in the hospital than running back and forth. We don't really live close to a hospital - the closest one to us is Hamilton General, but usually we perfer going a bit further to St. Joseph's. In either case, it's at least a ten to fifteen minute drive and in an emergency, a lot of things can happen in that timespan.

She seems to be getting better now. A little wacked out the second time I saw her, but she was high on morphine.

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

In either case, it's at least a ten to fifteen minute drive and in an emergency, a lot of things can happen in that timespan.

Exactly. She might be loopy, but she's somewhere she has help and where they can keep an eye on things. Being in the hospital sucks, but even when I really hated it, at least I had pain management and people watching out for me.

Just gotta hang in there until she's okay, and then life'll go back to normal.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

The loopiness is slightly less now. We worked out some of our problems, which where either connected to her infection or a certain sister. Aparently, my mom is afraid I'm going to have a panic attack if I get told about something sudden or bad.

I'm hoping with damn thing gone, we can have a normal relationship again.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

This certainly seems to be the time for infections, isn't it? Best wishes for health for your mother.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

This infection appears to have been building up for a while, so I can't say if it's connected to all the other infections over the past while or not.