Today was a whirlwind of surprises! A roller coaster ride to the very end. But (I will give you today’s scripture verse at the beginning of this entry rather than the end),
“All things come together for good to those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose” Romans 8:28
I woke at 3:00 a.m. this morning in a panic and crying over mom and where she will end up later today. The suspense of the unknown was too much to bear at 3:00 a.m. I prayed and calmed down and put her in God’s Hands again (I’d be so much better off if I just left her there in His Hands rather than snatching her back on and off—because when I snatch the problems back from God, the problems become a burden all anew).
Things looked better in the light of day and I was ready to face whatever came our way. I called the Admissions person at the original facility mom was at first thing in the morning and spoke to a secretary. I told the secretary I was just checking in again and that mom was being released today (I admit it seemed to be a moot cause at that point). As I hung up the phone, the building administrator sent me a message saying, “Welcome back!!! Call Admissions asap. The Big Guy Upstairs answered our prayers!” Don’t ask how, when there were no beds yesterday, but there was a bed there today!! PTL!! A huge burden lifted from my shoulders!!! YAHOOO!! So mom is going back to the original facility she was at which is our family’s first choice!!!
Mom was scheduled to leave the hospital at 3:00. Dad and I threw things together (boxes of things to bring to her room at the facility) and went to the hospital to see mom. Mom was asleep when we arrived. The nurses all said she was awake this morning before we came. Mom opened her eyes once and gave me a silly smirk when she saw me (maybe as if to say, “Oh brother, here she is again putting me to work”?!! haha), but then went back to sleep. The social worker and the nurse told us that mom was scheduled for a CAT Scan before leaving the hospital yesterday, but it was never done! So now we have to wait for mom to get the scan before she is discharged. Mom needs the available bed today!! She needs to claim it and be in it today or she loses the bed. Everyone scurried to get the scan done, but after they moved mom downstairs for the scan, some handwritten prescription for it wasn’t there…so they sent mom back upstairs to wait! Ugh. After much more scurrying and ado, mom is now scheduled to leave the hospital at 5-6 p.m. The scan is rescheduled for 3:30 p.m. right now. I was asked to sign discharge paperwork and saw that all the original medications mom was on at admittance, was back on the paperwork---mom is off every medication now that she has the shunt—except 1 blood pressure medication for 20 mg. and the lasix. I told the social worker to change it. She did. Mom left for the scan at 3:30 as planned. As an aside, now that mom will be back at the original facility, she has no bed hold again. So any hospital stay will warrant mom going back into the facility pool to be up for grabs. As one of our cousins said, “And we are supposed to be a civilized nation?” We went to the Medical Records Office before we left today and put in an order to have mom’s medical records sent to her neurologist. This costs .75 cents a page (out of pocket). Mom has been off the vent and on the trach collar for the last 48 hours straight!! All of mom’s latest tests show that all is well.
The ambulance was right on time at 5:00 p.m. and somehow everything fell into place. PTL! Dad rode in the ambulance with mom to the facility and I followed behind. They arrived at least an hour before me because I was stuck in rush hour traffic and they took the HOV lane. Dad said that, as mom was wheeled in, everyone was yelling, “Hey Dotty’s back! Hi Dotty! Remember me?” and mom rose to the occasion and said, “Hi” and “I’m fine.” She fell asleep as she was being cleaned and inspected. Claudia drove out to see mom and drive dad home. The three of us unpacked 5 of the 10 boxes of things from mom’s room and cleaned things up to our standards with disinfectant… Bad news is that the sore on mom’s sacrum which was all healed, opened up!!! Not good. Please pray that it heals again. The facility was right on it and applied ointment and a bandage right away. We prayed over mom and left. We all will sleep well tonight, I’m sure.
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