A week ago I was still sucking on cigarettes. Then on Tuesday, it looked as if Mom was going to come home from the hospital after 15 days stuck in that building. Doctors and respiratory therapists said things to my mother like, "If you go home and start smoking again, you're going to wind up ...
Category Archives: Body of Mine
Aug
24
Call Me Patch
Day 16 of Mom's hospital stay. She was said to be going home today. And since (drum roll, please) she agreed to quit smoking, I cleaned out her room last night. No more ashtrays or smokes, they've all been thrown away. And I Febreezed the shit out of everything. That's 50 years of being a ...
Aug
20
Food for Thought
Day 12 of Mom in hospital. White count still too high and they don't know why. Tomorrow they're going to do a bronchoscopy to "wash" out her lung and see if there's an infection. Karin is on her way here with the fam. Staying till Sunday. Me. I'm ok. Frazzled, but going day to day. ...
Aug
17
Up in Smoke
It's day 8 now with Mom in the hospital and me making it a second home. A week ago yesterday that we almost lost her. Hoping this is her week to go home, but that depends on her white blood cell count coming down. They say nurses are the worst patients and I understand why. ...
Aug
15
Clueless in Sebring
It's the strangest thing, being in the hospital, or having a loved one in the hospital. You're trusting your life with people you don't even know. The nurses, the doctors, the aides. Don't know them from Adam, and yet every time I leave the hospital, I trust them with the life of my mother. I ...
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