Erin, so sorry to hear about your Mom. Will your Dad be able to come home and get you to take you to see her?

they did some sort of scan of her esophagus at the hospital today. Apparently they didn't find anything there, so guess what she gets to do tomorrow? They're going to take a look from the other end.

Hoping that it's not anything horrible, but if her hemoglobin was down to 5, yeah, that makes me wonder.

My dad is going to go up there tomorrow afternoon, and then he's going to come home to take me to my doctor's appointment for my shoulder so that I can find out what I did to it and see if I can fix whatever hurts like crazy in my shoulder.

I didn't end up falling asleep today until about 10am. Then I slept until about 530. But, I kept getting woken up every hour or two from people calling me.

Hopefully I sleep earlier tonight. I have that appointment with the orthopedist tomorrow.

forget the wine to go with my whine...let's break out the hard liquor.

I just canceled my appointment with the shoulder doctor. My dad had told me to take a taxi to the appointment. Well, since it's the day before Turkey Day, all the taxis are busy going to the airport. It was going to take too long to get the taxi here, since my dad only gave me the 30 min warning that he wasn't going to take me. Plus, he took off with the rollator walker I was going to use. (it's in the back of my car. He took my car to go back up to the hospital) Oh, and my dad didn't leave me any cash for the taxi. (I could have used a credit card, but I would have wanted to tip cash)

At this rate, my shoulder will be healed by the time I get an orthopedist to look at it. It hurts so bad right now, I'm going to take a bunch of tylenol and go back to bed. I only had 2hrs of sleep because the furnace repairperson showed up at 8am, I probably didn't fall asleep until 6am because my arm hurt so bleepity bleep much. I feel sick from not sleeping. Probably another good reason to cancel my appointment today.

hope the tylenol helps with the pain. It didn't last week. I ended up calling my regular doctor and did one of those mini dosepacks of steroids for the pain. Narcotics make me throw up.


So far at the moment, my mom is fine. She's still waiting for them to go looking around inside her today for whatever was causing the problem. So, still no idea what's caused that internal bleeding. I have a few ideas, but none of them are good.

they did that second scan of my mom. Didn't find a thing.

My dad said that they've got one more scan that they can do. She can swallow a radioactive pill, and then they take a picture (xrays???) and see if anything lights up.

He's pretty sure they'll be letting her go tonight, he didn't think they'd keep her over a holiday. So, hopefully our Thanksgiving is uncanceled. (I called the restaurant we were going to back, and re-made our reservation that I canceled this morning)

edit

ok, T-Day might still be canceled. They did a polypectomy while they were wandering around in my mom today checking her out. Apparently they tend to keep people overnight after a polypectomy, just to make sure they don't start bleeding from that. So, my mom might not be getting out until tomorrow morning, which means that we're probably going to miss the reservation that I just re-made for dinner.

Erin - Thanks for the update on your mom. Where did they remove the polyp? I'm keeping her in my prayers. I'm also sorry to hear you had to miss your appointment.

I don't know where it was. Just that it was inside there somewhere and they took it out.


as for my shoulder, omg...it hurts so bad right now that I'm about to start throwing up. The pain is going down my arm into my hand. It hurts really really bad and it's making me feel sick.

I tried doing one of the PT exercises they've been having me do. I have this pulley thing that you use to raise the sore arm up with the good arm. It stretches out the muscles and it's supposed to help. It didn't. Just made it hurt a lot more. I took 3 ibuprofen, but that's not helping it at all. I just want to throw up now for how much it hurts.

Maybe it is a good thing if we don't go out tomorrow. It wouldnt be good if my arm hurts so bad that it's making me hurl...or at least want to hurl. They might not want me to throw up on the waitress' shoes.


and as I was typing this, my dad called back. Now T-day is totally canceled. The doctors said they're worried about her kidneys now, so now they're going to check the kidneys for problems.

geeze, I'm just going to go get a hurl bucket, put my jammies back on, and see if there's a position that I can lay in that doesn't hurt my arm.

Erin - Stress, pain, and ibuprofen combined would make anyone's stomach upset. I hope you start feeling better and keep us updated on your mom.

my stomach was already upset before I took the ibuprofen.

I'm hungry, but it's getting late, and all the places that deliver are probably shutting down for the night. I might make myself some soup if I can get the can open. Or maybe I'll make toast and jelly.

Erin surely they wouldn't discharge your Mom with a blood count like that. So sorry your holiday plans are cancelled.

How are you Erin?

I'm hoping that your shoulder settled down and you got some sleep.
I'm worried about you having to manage on your own with all that is going on with you and your Mom.
Did your Dad come home to help you last night...at least to get some good food to eat today for while he is at the hospital with your Mom?

With love, Erika